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Mac Devine

VP and CTO of Cloud Networking and Innovation Serv, Cloud Net

Mac has 26 years of experience with networking and virtualization.

He became an IBM Master Inventor in 2006, an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2008 and is a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology since 2009

He served 2 years as the Chief Architect for IM System z Enterprise Software and 2 years as the CTO for IBM Cloud partnerships and client innovations within the IBM Corporate Strategy team.

Mac served 2 years as Director and CTO Cloud Portfolio within IBM Global Technology Services. He lead the technical due diligence for the SoftLayer acquisition which lead to the creation of IBM Cloud Services Division.

He co-authored Springer’s Handbook of Cloud Computing used by colleges and universities.

Mac currently serves as Vice President and CTO of Networking and Innovation Services, IBM Cloud Division and as a faculty member for the Cloud and Internet-of-Things Expos. Mac also serves on the Internet of Things Community Advisory Board as well as the advisory boards for more than a dozen cloud companies.  

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Abstract: Microservice based applications provide scalability and resiliency that makes them highly suitable for deployment in a Cloud or Enterprise environment. To successfully deploy applications based on the microservices architecture (in the Cloud or the Enterprise), the Cloud or Enterprise infrastructure provider must enable a seamless virtual network across...