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Jon Herlocker (Alumnus)

Jon Herlocker was formerly a VP for the MSBU group and works on technology strategy for the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at VMware. In prior roles he was CTO and VP of Engineering of Mozy and CTO of the EMC Cloud Services Division. He was co-founder of two high-tech startups - MusicStrands (now Strands), and Smart Desktop. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota and was tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University (Corvallis) where he published a number of highly cited scientific papers and led DARPA-funded research. He was heavily involved in the pioneering work in the area of recommendation systems, and in 2010 he was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery's Software System Award in recognition of developing a software system that has had a lasting influence in the field of computer science. Jon’s research & product experience has spanned distributed systems, machine learning, and human computer interaction.

Author's Posts

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Log Insight and vCenter Operations – Better Together with vRealize Operations Insight

At VMware, we are personally dedicated to making IT Operations a better place. What does that mean? To me that means providing software and automation...

Jon Herlocker (Alumnus)
September 15, 2014
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Log Insight Now Understands More of your IT Environment with Partner Content Packs

Jon Herlocker (Alumnus)
August 15, 2013
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Introducing VMware vCenter Log Insight

Jon Herlocker (Alumnus)
June 11, 2013
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VMware acquires Log Insight technology and team from Pattern Insight

Jon Herlocker (Alumnus)
August 16, 2012