Xen Community Spotlight

Don Banks, Cisco

Seen in his corporate mug shot above, Don Banks is a Distinguished Engineer in Research and Advanced Development at Cisco. He has been working with the current incarnation of virtualization technologies, xen on Intel hardware in particular, for the past three years building prototype systems to investigate how to take advantage of multi-core devices in routers, switches, and appliances using both legacy and new software and specialized hardware. His background is in operating system kernel and network software, firmware, and platform hardware architecture and implementation on systems including mainframes, storage arrays, fault tolerant systems, NAS servers, and mac desktops.