Dave McCrory

SVP of Engineering for Warner Music Group

Previously Lead Technical Marketing / Sr. Architect for Cloud Foundry at VMware Inc.

Prior to VMware I was a Cloud Architect for Dell DCS

I like to build things that solve problems.

Entrepreneur:

Founder of Startups:

Surgient Inc. (acquired by Quest Software)

Hyper9 (acquired by SolarWinds)

Author:
Co-Author of Advanced Server Virtualization ISBN 0849339316 (Published May 17, 2006)

Inventor:

I'm an Inventor of the following granted Patents in Cloud Computing and Virtualization

• Virtualized logical server cloud #20030051021 (Filed March 18,2002) (Referenced by Raritan Americas in USP #7,613,927)
• Virtual server cloud interfacing #7,574,496 (Filed April 17, 2002) (Referenced by IBM, Microsoft and Unisys Corp)
• Virtualized logical server cloud providing non-deterministic allocation of logical attributes of logical servers to physical resources #6,880,002 (Filed April 12, 2005) (Referenced by Microsoft, Global Serv Inc., and Aten International)
• Hardware agnostic manipulation and management of image resources #20050229175 (Referenced by SAP and Hitachi)
• Shared nothing virtual cluster #7,287,186 Patent App #20040243650 (Referenced by IBM, Lockheed Martin, and Hitachi)
• Network abstraction and isolation layer rules-based federation and masquerading #7,643,484 (Filed February 9, 2005)
• Adaptive, scalable I/O request handling architecture in virtualized computer systems and networks #7,529,867 (Filed April 24, 2007)
• Server file management #7,257,584 (Filed August 14, 2007) (Referenced by Microsoft and Seagate Tech)
• Near on-line server #6,990,666 (Filed January 24, 2006) (Referenced by Microsoft, Computer Associates, and Cassatt)