Thomas . Phelan

Independent Consultant

Thomas Phelan recently retired from HPE as a Fellow and VP in the HCCT Innovation Advanced Development team. He is currently helping enterprises in their ethical use of Artificial Intelligence as a Consultant, Strategist, Leader, Speaker, Teacher, and Author . He joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise when BlueData, Inc. was acquired by HPE in November of 2018. Tom was the Co-Founder and Chief Architect of BlueData and led the team that developed the EPIC platform for automating and managing AI/ML/DL/Big Data application clusters in a container-based hybrid-cloud environment. Prior to founding BlueData, he spent more than 25 years as a senior architect, developer, and team leader in the computer software industry. He has a deep knowledge of storage and virtualization technologies. Earlier in his career, Tom was an architect for VMware where he designed the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) for the ESX platform. Earlier still, Tom was a Principal Engineer at SGI and a member of the team that designed and developed the XFS file system. Tom earned his BA in Computer Science from U.C Berkeley, and is the holder of numerous patents in various areas of computer storage and virtualization.

 

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