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Chris Pinkham is an entrepreneur and technologist born in Singapore, raised and educated in Britain and South Africa. Chris was formerly Vice President, IT Infrastructure at Amazon.com, responsible for the company's global infrastructure engineering and operations. While in this role, he conceived, proposed and, together with Willem Van Biljon, built Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the highly successful public cloud service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon opens Cape software centre )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon opens dev centre in Cape Town )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon's Pinkham quits )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=benjamin black's blog post about EC2 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon’s early efforts at cloud computing? Partly accidental )〕 Prior to Amazon, Chris co-created and ran the first commercial ISP in South Africa, TICSA (later renamed Internet Africa), which he sold to UUNET in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris Pinkham: veteran of the virtual )〕 The company, now owned by MTN, remains one of the largest ISPs on the African continent. In 2006, Chris left Amazon Web Services and subsequently started a new venture with his long-time friend Willem. The company, Nimbula, was focused on Cloud Computing software and was funded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners. In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.〔http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/nimbula/index.html〕 Chris has co-authored a couple of patent applications: "Managing Communications Between Computing Nodes", "Managing Execution of Programs by Multiple Computing Systems" ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Pinkham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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