John Overton is the CEO and founder of Kove IO, Inc., responsible for introducing the world's first Software-Defined Memory offering, Kove:SDM . Once considered impossible, Kove:SDM delivers infinitely scalable memory, and unleashes new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities while also reducing power consumption by up to 50%. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dr. Overton co-invented and patented pioneering technology using distributed hash tables for locality management. This breakthrough technology created unlimited scaling, and enabled the advent of cloud storage, scale-out database sharding, among other markets. While at the Open Software Foundation in the late 1980s, Dr. Overton wrote software used by approximately two-thirds of the world's workstation market. Dr...