Chris is a Intel researcher currently working on extending Heat with coordinated adaptation; where the application and the infrastructure share information. Allowing the infrastructure to see understand the Application and its SLA allowing more intelligent orchestration of resources.

This is a collaborative research project involving Intel IBM, ATOS, SAP, Telecom Italia, University of Messina, University of Zurich, Technion, Cloudmore, and the University of Duisburg-Essen. For more information please see http://cloudwave-fp7.eu

Prior to this Chris past experience includes a mixture of Cloud, large scale web applications, and mobile; from Nokia & Symbian through to Bing and Azure