Cloudops is a team of IT operations professionals with backgrounds in network security, web optimization, elastic computing, and high-availability architectures. The executive team is Ian Rae and Alistair Croll.
Ian Rae, CEO
Ian Rae is a partner at Bitcurrent and the founder of Syntenic, an high-end managed service provider focused on hybrid IT architectures and cloud computing. He is also a founding partner at Year One Labs, and the creator of the largest technology co-working space in Montreal.
Ian ran the engineering team at Coradiant, and was the CIO of Canderel Investments. He also consults to both investors and startups involved in the application delivery space. He holds a B.Sc., with honors, from McGill University in his hometown of Montreal, Canada, where he plays ultimate frisbee to unwind, and blogs casually at Infreemation.
Alistair Croll, VP Marketing
Alistair Croll is the Founder of Bitcurrent; a partner with startup incubator Year One Labs; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; a founding partner of Startupfestival; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies, as well as an organizer of various technology events in the Montreal area.
Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry’s largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O’Reilly Strata.
Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also a contributor to Web Operations (2010, O’Reilly), and the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O’Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).