Billy Cox leads the Cloud strategy efforts for Intel’s Software and Services Group. His focus is systems management for servers in the data center and platform enablement for the cloud.

Billy is particularly involved in the development of strategic relationships between Intel and hypervisor projects, especially Xen* and KVM,* as well as cloud platforms such as the Eucalyptus project. Among his key goals are enabling trusted multi-tenancy in Cloud Computing environments.

A particular thrust of that effort is enablement for upcoming Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) for Servers. That silicon-based feature of Intel® Xeon® processors will allow customers to verify trusted configurations for hypervisors in cloud environments, a core security consideration for many companies.

Jun Nakajima is a Principal Engineer at the Intel® Open Source Technology Center who focuses on Open Source virtualization projects, such as Xen and KVM. In fact, Jun wrote the first code for Xen to take advantage of Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) and continues to be recognized as one of the key contributors to Xen.

As a long-standing contributor to Xen and other Open Source efforts, Jun has made very substantial code contributions over the years to enable Open Source software with the latest Intel platform features and capabilities, including each successive generation of Intel VT.

As a particularly noteworthy contribution to the advancement of virtualization, Jun and some colleagues first proposed "hybrid virtualization" (also known as "enlightenment") in 2007, to combine the performance, security, and other advantages of hardware-based virtualization with software-based paravirtualization. Jun believes that such extensions for virtualization would be useful even for Cloud Computing.