Sheng Liang is the CEO and Co-Founder of

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. Previously he was the lead developer on the original

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(JVM) team at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and the chief technology officer of the Cloud Platforms groups at

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after their acquisition of Cloud.com, where he was co-founder and

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and founder of

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in July 2011.

Biography

Liang has a PhD from Yale University in Computer Science. He did his undergraduate degree from

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. Sheng also was co-founder and chief technology officer of Teros, a provider of perimeter and network security solutions for enterprises and service providers, acquired by Citrix Systems, Inc. in 2005. He also served as vice president of engineering at SEVEN Networks, and as director of software engineering at Openwave Systems.

References

External links

DevX - Open Source Solutions for Managing Private and Public Clouds

ESJ - Q&A: Building a Private Cloud

Java.net - Launch Java Applications From Assembly Language Programs

The Register - Cloud.com takes on virty infrastructure
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