security, compliance and infrastructure management, and he has been responsible for defining and delivering VMware’s prescriptive guidance on security hardening and operations.  Previously, he worked at Sun Microsystems, where he had over 7 years experience with designing and developing distributed resource management and grid infrastructure software solutions. He holds several patents in the fields of datacenter automation and numerical price optimization.  Charu received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he studied theoretical models of complex fluids.