Kieran Harty
4:04 PM EDT Fri. Sep. 12, 2003
From the September 12, 2003 issue of CRN
| Title: Executive VP, Engineering, VMware Academic Credentials: B.S., Engineering, M.S., Computer Science, Trinity College; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Creative Inspirations: My wife, Cari; the music of Bach Favorite Junk Food: In-N-Out Burger Double-Double Most Productive Time Of Day: Driving from San Francisco to Palo Alto in the morning
"VMware is really an Intel version of IBM's VM operating system, which dates back to 1967," says Bob Kusche, general manager of Sytek Services, a division of Denver Solutions Group, Denver, and a VMware partner. "Dr. Harty's approach is radically different, however, and he does deserve full credit for how VMware accomplishes much of the same functionality with a totally different architecture." VMware was once a Microsoft acquisition target, and its Connectix buyout will make it a direct competitor. But Harty is on to his next big thing. This summer, VMware launched Control Center, which enables companies to move multiple virtual machines from one hardware server to another in a cluster with continuous service availability.
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ieran Harty handed VMware a pot of gold when he pushed the idea of moving the company's PC desktop virtualization software to the server.
Harty, a native of Dublin who joined the company just months after it was founded four years ago, parlayed his wealth of server software knowledge to launch the industry's first two server virtualization products for the Intel platform in 1999. 
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