Mark VanderWiele is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with 25 years industry experience in systems architecture. For the last several years has been performing research on cloud computing which includes internet scale data centers, genesis of clouds, virtualization management, new cloud workloads, license management, problem determination, and scalable storage to build more efficient data centers using cloud technology. He is currently chief architect for IBM’s integrated CloudBurst on Power Offerings. In this role he is responsible for driving customer requirements into future offerings as well as the technical content and delivery of the current offerings.