Ian Pratt is a British computer scientist. He was the chief architect of the open-source

Xen Xen (pronounced ) is a type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. It was originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory a ...

project, and chairman of Xen.org. He was also the founder of XenSource, the company behind Xen project. After XenSource was acquired by

Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies. C ...

, he became vice president of Advanced Virtualization Products at this company, until leaving in 2011. He then became the CEO of

Bromium Bromium was a venture capital–backed startup based in Cupertino, California that worked with virtualization technology. Bromium focused on virtual hardware claiming to reduce or eliminate endpoint computer threats like viruses, malware, a ...

. Bromium was eventually acquired by

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in 2019 and he became the Global Head of Security at HP. Before working full-time at XenSource, Pratt was a senior lecturer at the

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory The Department of Computer Science and Technology, formerly the Computer Laboratory, is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. it employed 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 15 ...

, and Fellow of

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

. He was the leader of the Systems Research Group, where he was also part of the XenoServer project. He received the Academy Silver Medal in 2009 and was elected to

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

in 2012.IET members among new Academy Fellows
,

Institution of Engineering and Technology The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and ...

, 25 July 2012 He resides in Cambridge, UK.

References

External links

Ian Pratt's former website at the University of Cambridge

Interview with Brian Gammadge
at Gartner.com, 2 May 2008
Ian Pratt's HP biography
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