My cloud story

I came to the United States with $400 borrowed from my advisor at Tsinghua University. When I entered US customs at the San Francisco port, on August 17, 1992, I was asked by the US customs officer, “How will you survive here with 400 dollars?”

Four years later, with a PhD in industrial engineering and a master of science in computer science, I started working at Chase Manhattan Bank as a Unix administrator. Working as a Unix administrator, a Cisco internet expert, and then an advisory Storage Area Network (SAN) architect, it took me eight years at Wall Street financial firms and 12 years in IT firms (EMC/VMware) to build a solid foundation in all aspects of IT infrastructure (server, network, storage, database, high availability, and disaster recovery). At that time, I had worked in the traditional IT industry for over 20 years and was very comfortable with my professional life.

My life changed in 2014. I was made aware of the cloud computing concepts...