Peter Holditch, Azul Systems

Peter is the Chief Architect for Azul EMEA, working closely with both customers and Azul engineers in order to ensure customer requirements are met and their VM based applications are successfully integrated into the company's compute pool solution; Peter is based in the UK. Prior to joining Azul in 2005, Peter spent nine years at BEA Systems in both pre-sales and post-sales consultancy roles. His role at BEA spanned from providing technical advice to prospective customers about BEA's complete product portfolio, from Tuxedo through the CORBA OTM to the WebLogic Platform as well as helping customers to design and implement solutions based on the company's industry-leading middleware based systems. Before joining BEA, Peter led a small research and development team at Racal-Airtech, architecting and building supporting software and firmware for tamper-resistant hardware crypto devices. Prior to Racal-Airtech, Peter worked in research and development at Groupe Bull on the Tuxedo product. He helped design and implement recovery processing in the OSITP gateway, added NetBIOS networking support and did various porting and tuning work. Peter is also well published in the WebLogic Developers Journal and other highly publicized IT-related publications