VMware's chief architect is turning his attention from virtual servers to virtual storage As do most CTOs, Edouard Bugnion thinks a lot about architecture. But as chief architect and co-founder of VMware, he thinks more about the management of machines from a virtual standpoint. He shepherded the development of the company’s 2003 release, VirtualCenter, which is designed to manage the machines that corporations will link into the grids of utility-based computing.Thanks at least in part to Bugnion’s contributions, storage vendor EMC bought VMware in December 2003. As a result, he’s already started thinking about the convergence of virtual servers with virtual storage.“The server world and the data world have been managed separately and physically,” he explains. “Converging the two into a single, homogenous platform will give companies more flexibility and manageability.” Technology Industry