Patrick Pushor

I'm a creative thinker based out of Western Canada with a fierce focus on cloud computing and related technologies. My nearly two decades of enterprise experience in every industry from national defense to agriculture has provided a very broad and balanced view of different approaches to problem solving. My career began in server based computing where systems were being devised to shift focus to centralized management of resources. This proliferation of back office resources proved to be a key business driver to the truly disruptive concept of virtualization. Beginning with server consolidation and spreading to application, storage, and networking, the scale-out potential embodied in virtualization has given way to a whole new system of providing and consuming computing power. On the technical side, cloud computing is pushing virtualization and automation to new areas. From a business perspective, the concept of the cloud is introducing agility into organizations that have been traditionally viewed as large and unwieldy, and lowering the cost of entry for startups with fresh new ideas. It's an exciting space to be present in, and is the culmination of many concepts and technologies coming together.