Hal Stern, SVP Global Systems Engineering, Sun

Hal Stern, SVP Global Systems Engineering, Sun.

Hal Stern is a Distinguished Engineer and the Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering at Sun Microsystems. His responsibilities include technical leadership, training, and management of Sun's customer engineering teams in Global Sales and Services. Hal's current projects include security architecture, cloud computing design patterns, and large-scale paralytics and data management.

Hal was involved in both the Sun ONE and Liberty Alliance Project architectures from their formative stages, and has been working with teams open sourcing Sun software projects. Hal's current technical interests include content delivery networks, privacy and security of large-scale systems, digital rights management, network identity, structured data management, reliability and software quality measurement, large-scale data centers efficiency, and virtualization technologies from the chip to the filesystem levels.