tom leyden

Tom Leyden joined object storage innovator Amplidata in 2009 as Director of Alliances and Marketing to drive the company’s marketing, product management and PR strategies. Tom has 15 years’ experience working for disruptive IT companies (from emerging stage to acquisition) including four years in cloud computing. Through his collaboration with Belgium-based technology incubator Incubaid, Tom has been involved in several successful startups, including data deduplication pioneer DataCenter Technologies and cloud Innovator Q-layer. During his career Tom spent 2 years at Sun Microsystems; here he held a pivotal role within the product management team responsible for building the Sun Cloud, designed as a more open alternative to the Amazon web services offering. At this time Tom also took on the responsibility of cloud evangelist, and this included working as an organiser to bring CloudCamp to Europe. After Oracle acquired Sun, Tom spent a year with the combined OVM product management team. Prior to his role at Sun, Tom was product manager at Q-layer, the company behind the first IAAS platform and what would become the backbone of the Sun Cloud. Today Q-layer is still recognized as one of the first true cloud enabling platforms.