As co-founder and CTO of ScaleMP, Shai designed and architected the core technology behind ScaleMP, and is now responsible for its strategy and direction. Shai has more than 15 years of experience in technology and business roles in IT and venture backed firms. Before founding ScaleMP, Shai was CTO of BRM Capital, a first-tier Israeli venture-capital fund. Shai defined the fund's technology roadmap, which formed the foundation of BRM's investment strategy.
Prior to BRM, Shai was co-founder, CTO, and VP R&D at several technology startups. He has also served in the Israeli Defense Force's prestigious central intelligence unit, where he led a large IT organization of hundreds of engineers and programmers. Shai managed a broad range of complex IT projects in the areas of security, systems and network infrastructure and knowledge management, gaining significant experience in the domain of scalable computing and large-scale IT infrastructure.
Shai has been an active member of several open source initiatives such as Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, Amanda and the Linux kernel.
Shai holds a Bachelor of Technology and Applied Science from the Jerusalem College of Technology.
The challenge for evolving cloud computing architectures is that there have been and always will be a significant number of applications that can’t easily serve existing compute nodes. These demanding workloads require either a large number of processing cores or large memory (RAM) footprints that are beyond the scale of normal cloud computing resources. For end users who have been increasingly disaggregated from the compute nodes and trained to think of compute resources as on-demand, this is both frustrating and challenging, as they have to differentiate workloads that can run in the cloud from those that continue to need dedicated, expensive and purpose built hardware.
The convergence of clouds and virtual machines (VMs) will become an increasingly prevalent conversation in 2011 and we will see the concept of server aggregation marry cloud computing quite nicely.
The co-founder and CTO of ScaleMP, Shai Fultheim, discusses his firm's vSMP Foundation solution for greater flexibility, lower costs, reduced complexity and the ability to better manage customer service level expectations.
Virtualization is becoming a key technology for the evolving IT landscape and, as cloud computing emerges, promises to be a critical component of making that a reality. There are remarkable parallels between the network, storage and server virtualization paradigms. Here is an overview of virtualization techniques associated with partitioning and aggregation of the computing resources. Also, a discussion about the rising trajectory of the new emerging server aggregation virtualization technology.
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