Albert Greenberg is an American software engineer and computer scientist who is notable for his contributions to the design of operating carrier and datacenter networks[7] as well as to advances in computer networking and cloud computing.[2][8] At Microsoft, he is a Corporate Vice President and the director of development for its Microsoft Azure service, which is a cloud computing infrastructure platform that coordinates data centers around the world.[2][9][10][11] In contrast to hard-wired computer networks, firms such as Microsoft are turning increasingly to software-defined networking (or SDN) approaches to run its cloud computing networks by managing virtual networks across "millions of servers".[12][13] He oversees development of technologies that keep the network running in the cloud, so that when component failures happen, software systems pinpoint the failures and "route around the faulty components;" the technology permits data centers to be "software-defined", allowing the cloud to grow rapidly while being flexible to meet changing needs, as he explained in 2015 in eWeek magazine.[14] His research focuses on the infrastructure of cloud services, management of enterprise networks, data center networks, and systems monitoring.[6]
Albert Greenberg | |
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| Spouse | Kathryn Greenberg |
| Children | 4 |
| Awards | National Academy of Engineering, 2016[1] SIGCOMM Award, 2015[2] Koji Kobayashi Award, 2015[3][4][5] ACM Fellow[6] ACM Test of Time Award, 2015 ACM Sigmetrics Test of Time Award, 2013 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Networking Cloud computing |
| Institutions | Microsoft |
Greenberg received his PhD in 1983 at the University of Washington as an ARCS Scholar (Seattle Chapter).[15] He has won numerous awards for his contributions: he is an ACM Fellow,[6] received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award in 2015 for his "fundamental contributions to large-scale backbone networks and data-center networks,"[3][4] and won the prestigious SIGCOMM Award in 2015 for "pioneering the theory and practice of operating carrier and datacenter networks."[2] In addition, he publishes in numerous scholarly journals on topics such as networking and cloud computing.[16] He began his career at AT&T Labs and became division manager for network measurement engineering and research,[17] was promoted to executive director and an AT&T Fellow,[6] and was hired by Microsoft in 2007 as a principal researcher.[6] In 2016, he was inducted into the United States National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the theory and practice of operating large carrier and data center networks."[1]
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- ^ a b Randy Atkins, February 8, 2016, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering Elects 80 Members and 22 Foreign Members, Retrieved February 8, 2016
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- ^ a b IEEE staff (2015). "KOJI KOBAYASHI COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS AWARD" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-24. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ 2015, IEEE, IEEE-LEVEL AWARDS, Retrieved August 24, 2015
- ^ a b c d e Conference listing (7 December 2010). "What Is the Next Generation Internet Forum?". IEEE Globecom 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ 2015, SIGCOMM Awards, ACM, SIGCOMM Award Recipients: The annual SIGCOMM Award, presented at the SIGCOMM Technical Conference, recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks., Retrieved August 22, 2015
- ^ Art Fewell (October 19, 2011). "Open Networking Summit Day 2: Cisco says "We see SDN as the next evolution of networking"". Network World. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ Jack Clark (8 November 2013). "Microsoft reveals secrets of Azure cloud's networking underbelly: 'In the last three years everything changed'". The Register. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ DAMON POETER (September 24, 2014). "Broadcom Launches Powerful New Ethernet Switches". PC Magazine. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ Craig Matsumoto (June 17, 2015). "Microsoft Azure Gives SDN a Hardware Assist". SDX Central (NEWS AND RESOURCE SITE FOR SDX, SDN, NFV, CLOUD & VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE). Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ Mitch Wagner (March 7, 2014). "Google, Microsoft Challenge Service Providers". Light Reading. Light Reading: Networking the Communications Industry. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ Shamus McGillicuddy (13 March 2014). "Q&A: How Microsoft SDN and network virtualization affects you". Tech Target. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ Pedro Hernandez (August 20, 2015). "At Microsoft, Software-Defined Networking Takes Cloudy Turn". eWeek. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ "Spotlight". Seattle Homepage. ARCS Foundation. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ Ezendu Ariwa (February 28, 2014). Green Technology Applications for Enterprise and Academic Innovation. IGI Global. ISBN 9781466651678. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ Carolyn Duffy Marsan (October 13, 2003). "AT&T touts tool to map IP traffic". Network world. Retrieved August 22, 2015.