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Edouard Bugnion

Edouard "Ed" Bugnion is a Swiss computer science professor at EPFL and a co-founder of VMware. Since 2025, he is Vice President for Innovation and Impact at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[1]

Edouard Bugnion
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Biography

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Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[2]

Bugnion was one of the five founders of VMware in 1998 (with his advisor Mendel Rosenblum) and was the chief architect until 2004.[3] While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as NetTop for the US National Security Agency.[4]

After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by Cisco Systems, and acquired by them in April 2008.[5] Bugnion joined Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit.[6] He promoted Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appeared in advertisements.[7] In 2014, he became adjunct professor at the School of Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland, where he is a Full Professor as of April 2025. He was Vice President for Information Systems from 2017 to 2020, and he was appointed Vice President for Innovation and Impact in 2025.[8][9]

Bugnion’s work on operating systems and platform virtualization includes his 1997 paper, “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” co-authored with Scott Devine and Mendel Rosenblum, that won a SIGOPS Hall of Fame award in 2008;[10][11] and VMware Workstation for Linux 1.0, that won an ACM Software System Award in 2009.[12] Bugnion was elected an ACM Fellow in 2017.[12][13]

Bugnion is also an angel investor in startup companies such as Cumulus Networks.[14]

References

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  1. ↑ "Vice Presidencies". EPFL. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  2. ↑ "Edouard Bugnion". Personal student web page. Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ "VMware Leadership". Archived from the original on December 29, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  4. ↑ "NSA hones secure desktop to run multiple OSes". Government Computer News. September 17, 2003. Retrieved November 13, 2011.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ↑ "Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Remaining Interest in Nuova Systems". News release. Cisco systems. April 8, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  6. ↑ Charles Waltner (March 16, 2009). "The Evolution of Data Center 3.0". News release. Cisco systems. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  7. ↑ Dante Malagrino interview of Ed Bugnion (April 8, 2008). "Cisco Nexus 5000 Enables Virtualization Optimization". Promotional video by Cisco. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Nominations of EPFL professors" (Press release). Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL. 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  9. ↑ "ETH Board appoints EPFL's new leadership team" (Press release). Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL. 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  10. ↑ Bugnion, Edouard; Devine, Scott; Rosenblum, Mendel (October 1997). "Disco: Running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors". Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles. pp. 143–156. doi:10.1145/268998.266672. ISBN 0-89791-916-5. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  11. ↑ "The Hall of Fame Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  12. 1 2 "Edouard Bugnion". ACM. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  13. ↑ ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13
  14. ↑ "Cumulus Networks™ Brings The Power Of Linux® To Networking". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
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