Ian Pratt (computer scientist)

Ian Pratt is a British computer scientist. He was the chief architect of the open-source Xen project, and chairman of Xen.org.[1] He was also the founder of XenSource, the company behind Xen project.[2] After XenSource was acquired[3] by Citrix, he became vice president of Advanced Virtualization Products[4] at this company, until leaving in 2011.[5] He then became the CEO of Bromium. Bromium was eventually acquired by HP Inc in 2019, and he became the Global Head of Security at HP.[6]

Before working full-time at XenSource, Pratt was a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory where he taught undergraduate courses[7] and supervised PhD students, and was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was the leader of the Systems Research Group, where he was also part of the XenoServer project that lead to the creation of the Xen hypervisor.[8][9] He co-founded Nemesys Research Ltd, a company that broadcast video over ATM networks, which was acquired by FORE Systems in 1997.[10]

He received the Academy Silver Medal[11] in 2009 and was elected to Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012.[12] He resides in Cambridge, UK.

  1. ^ "Xen Summit 2011 Agenda and Speaker Lineup". 22 June 2011.
  2. ^ "XenSource on the Xen Project Wiki". 1 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Computer Laboratory spin out XenSource to be acquired by Citrix Systems for $500million". Cambridge Computer Laboratory. 25 September 2007.
  4. ^ "The Xen of start-ups". University of Cambridge. 1 May 2008.
  5. ^ Press release Archived 2011-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, Citrix Systems, 22 June 2011
  6. ^ . 17 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220717112804/https://press.hp.com/content/dam/sites/garage-press/press/press-releases/2021/wolf-security-and-flexworker/Ian_Pratt_HP_Bio_2021.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ "Computer Laboratory - Comparative Architectures".
  8. ^ Randal Schwartz (May 2009). "FLOSS Weekly 67" (Podcast). TWIT.
  9. ^ Barham, Paul; Dragovic, Boris; Fraser, Keir; Hand, Steven; Harris, Tim; Ho, Alex; Neugebauer, Rolf; Pratt, Ian; Warfield, Andrew (19 October 2003). "Xen and the art of virtualization". Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles. SOSP '03. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 164–177. doi:10.1145/945445.945462. ISBN 978-1-58113-757-6.
  10. ^ "Short Take: Fore acquires ATM tools". CNET. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  11. ^ Silver Medal - Past winners, Royal Academy of Engineering
  12. ^ IET members among new Academy Fellows Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 25 July 2012