Ed Anuff is an

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

and Head of Product at

Datastax DataStax, Inc. is a real-time data for AI company based in Santa Clara, California. Its product Astra DB is a cloud Database as a service, database-as-a-service based on Apache Cassandra. DataStax also offers DataStax Enterprise (DSE), an on-pr ...

. Prior to Datastax, he was Vice President of Product Strategy at Apigee. He is the founder of cloud based service Usergrid. Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.

Career

Prior to joining Datastax, Anuff founded

cloud service Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to ISO. Essential characteristics ...

Usergrid. Apigee acquired Usergrid in January 2012. Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd. Before joining Six Apart Anuff was co-founder of

Widgetbox Widgetbox was a San Francisco, California based company that enabled businesses to create and deliver applications to their customers. Widgetbox formally discontinued their service on March 28, 2014. In February 2011, Widgetbox rebranded as Flite ...

(with Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses), a

marketplace A marketplace, market place, or just market, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. In different parts of the world, a marketplace may be described as a ''souk'' (from ...

for widgets. He was the company's original

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

. Prior to founding

, Anuff was co-founder of

enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information ...

company Epicentric (with Oliver Muoto), a leading provider of

Enterprise portal An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal (EIP), is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries in a manner similar to the more general web portals. Enterprise portals p ...

software. He served as Epicentric's first

, later assuming the roles of

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and chief strategy officer. Prior to co-founding Epicentric, he was an executive at

Wired Wired may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * ''Wired'' (Jeff Beck album), 1976 * ''Wired'' (Hugh Cornwell album), 1993 * ''Wired'' (Mallory Knox album), 2017 * "Wired", a song by Prism from their album '' Beat Street'' * "Wired ...

(parent of Wired.com) responsible for the launch of

HotBot HotBot is a Canadian web search engine owned by HotBot Limited, whose key principal is Kristen Richardson. The search engine was initially launched in North America in 1996 by ''Wired'' magazine. During the 1990s, it was one of the most popul ...

, one of the first news search engines, in May 1996. Anuff is a graduate of

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

(RPI) and author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by

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, one of the first books on the

Java programming language Java is a high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language. It is intended to let programmers ''write once, run anywhere'' ( WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Jav ...

Patents

In 2001, Anuff was also granted a key

patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...

(US Patent # 6,327,628) related to portal server software. In 2010, Anuff and eight coworkers were granted US Patent # 7,801,990, "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".

Books

Java Sourcebook

References

External links

http://www.anuff.com
Personal website. *
Usergrid
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