Speaker
Dr
Benny Rochwerger
Description
"Cloud Computing: The Dawn of a New (Computing) Era?"
Benny Rochwerger, IBM/RESERVOIR Project
Benny Rochwerger has a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In his current position in IBM, he is the lead architect of RESERVOIR - a EU funded project investigating and developing technologies for the next generation infrastructure for services; previously he has worked in projects in virtualization management, autonomic computing, event processing, grid computing, distributed graphics and networking. As part of his work in grid computing he contributed to the definition of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) specification. Before joining IBM, Mr. Rochwerger worked at Avaya, Data General, Legent Corporation and Fidelity Medical.