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Evangelos Kotsovinos

Evangelos is an Executive Director at
Morgan Stanley, leading the areas of virtualization and cloud computing. He is also the Chief Strategy Officer at Virtual Trip, and a Member of the Board of Directors at NewCred.


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Evangelos leads technology strategy and execution, with a strong focus on business impact, in the areas of virtualization, cloud computing, and large-scale hosting. His areas of interest include massive-scale provisioning, predictive monitoring, scalable storage for virtualization, and operational tooling that allows efficiently managing a global cloud environment.

He has pioneered the field of cloud computing, devising one of the first blueprints for a public cloud computing platform as part of the XenoServers project, which he led. He is the author of three patents and several peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited more than 450 times. He has served as a program committee member and reviewer in numerous top conferences and journals.

Before joining Morgan Stanley, Evangelos was a Senior Research Scientist at T-Labs. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory. He is currently pursuing a part-time Masters in Finance at London Business School.

Recent and upcoming talks/panels/publications (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)

2011:

  • Virtualization: Blessing or Curse? In the Communications of the ACM, January 2011
  • Morgan Stanley CTO summit, June 2011: Managing a Converged Internal Cloud
  • IDG Cloud & Data Center World 2011, April 2011: Keynote speech on challenges of cloud-scale virtualization
  • Gartner seminar: Grounded Advice for Managing the Dynamic Private Cloud, April 2011: Challenges of cloud-scale virtualization
  • TSAM2011, March 2011: Cloud computing and virtualization for the enterprise
  • Finextra financial services roundtable on cloud, March 2011

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