Avi Kivity | |
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| Born | 1970 |
| Alma mater | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Occupation(s) | Co-founder, CTO, Software engineer |
| Employer | ScyllaDB |
| Known for | Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine, ScyllaDB |
Avi Kivity (Hebrew: אבי קויתי) is a software engineer who created the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor underlying many production clouds.[1][2] Following his work on KVM, Kivity developed the Seastar framework and the ScyllaDB database.[2][3] He co-founded the company ScyllaDB with Dor Laor; Kivity is CTO and an active project contributor.[2]
- ^ How Did KVM Virtualization Get Into the Linux Kernel?" in eWeek, November 18, 2013
- ^ a b c ScyllaDB Database Emerges Out of Cloudius Systems" in eWeek, September 22, 2015
- ^ New-Age C++ Boosts Open Source NoSQL Cassandra Speed 10x" in ADT, September 23, 2015