Bill Kleyman is a data center, cloud, and digital infrastructure leader. He was ranked globally by an Onalytica Study as one of the leading executives in cloud computing and data security. He has spent more than 15 years specializing in the cybersecurity, virtualization, cloud, and data center industry. As an award-winning technologist, his most recent efforts with the Infrastructure Masons were recognized when he received the 2020 IM100 Award and the 2021 iMasons Education Champion Award for his work with numerous HBCUs and for helping diversify the digital infrastructure talent pool.
Currently, Bill is an investor and board member of a Ukrainian Bare Metal MLOps company, Neu.ro, creating data modeling sustainably. Bill’s executive experience includes serving as the EVP of Digital Solutions at Switch Data Centers, focusing on sustainable hyperscale design. Before Switch, Bill was the CTO at MTM Technologies, where he worked with new designs around virtualization, data center architecture, and cloud design. He was also a leader in the cloud and DevOps practice at EPAM Systems, where he leveraged his multi-lingual skills to support next-generation digital engineering solutions globally.
Bill has been advising and consulting with enterprises of all sizes and verticals for almost a decade. As a seasoned technology advisor, Bill regularly conducts calls, webcasts, in-person meetings, and global summits. He discusses virtualization, cloud, security, the data center market, storage, mobility and endpoint solutions, software and applications, DevOps, edge computing, quantum computing, and many others. He is also the co-author of an Amazon Best Selling Book, Greener Data.
As an industry analyst, speaker, and author, Bill helps the digital infrastructure teams develop new ways to impact data center design, cloud architecture, security models (both physical and software), and how to work with new and emerging technologies.
Bill enjoys writing, blogging, and educating colleagues about technology-related. His work can be seen in thousands of articles, blogs, and chapters in various books, white papers, journals, and more. You can read more of Bill’s contributions as a contributing editor in Data Center Frontier, Data Center Knowledge, InformationWeek, ITPro Today, AFCOM, and others.