Steve Pate Bio:
Steve Pate is CTO and co-founder of HighCloud Security (http://www.highcloudsecurity.com), bringing 25 years of designing, building, and delivering file system, operating system, and security technologies, with a proven history of converting market-changing ideas into enterprise-ready products. Before HighCloud Security, he built and led teams at ICL, SCO, VERITAS, HyTrust, Vormetric, and others. HighCloud’s resident author, Steve has published two well-respected books on UNIX kernel internals and UNIX file systems, as well as hundreds of articles and blogs, including a resident blog on ComputerWorld titled Ahead in the Clouds.