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Monday 22 November 2010, 20:30-21:30
Xen and the Art of Startups
- 👤 Speaker: Steven Hand (University of Cambridge)
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 22 November 2010, 20:30 - 21:30
- 📍 Venue: Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road
Abstract
In January 2005, four University of Cambridge researchers founded a technology start-up called “XenSource”. In November 2007, XenSource was purchased by Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS) for US $500M. In this talk I will outline the story of XenSource, from technical inception to the ultimate purchase, and draw a number of lessons regarding things we did right and – more often! – things we did wrong.
About the speaker: Steve Hand is the University of Cambridge Reader in Computer Systems, with interests in operating systems, computer architecture, programming languages, distributed systems and algorithms. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and supervised 7 PhD students to completion to date, with 6 more in the pipeline.
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS) series.
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