Speaker Details

Adrian Hoban is a Principal Engineer in Intel's Data Center Solutions Group and the Technical Steering Committee chair for the Open Source MANO project. In Intel he is the system architect responsible for orchestration of Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualisation and leads the Intel team on OpenStack contributions in this area. He specialises in open source software such as OpenStack, Linux, Open vSwitch, KVM, QEMU and libvirt. Adrian is also active in standards initiatives such as ETSI-NFV. 

In OpenStack Adrian set the architectural direction for the Intel contributors on areas such as PCIe passthrough, SR-IOV, Enhanced Platform Awareness for NUMA, Huge Pages, CPU pinning, and thread policy, OVS with DPDK enablement, and Security Groups. He has a particular interest in extensions that relate to using OpenStack to facilitate high performance application deployments and infrastructure utilisation.