Steve Pate is Chief Architect at HyTrust. Steve brings 25 years of designing, building, and delivering file system, operating system, and security technologies, with a proven history of converting market-changing ideas into enterprise-ready products. Before HyTrust, he was CTO and co-founder of HighCloud Security, which was acquired by HyTrust in November of 2013. Prior to that, he built and led teams at ICL, SCO, VERITAS, Vormetric, and others. HyTrust's resident author, Steve has published two well-respected books on UNIX kernel internals and UNIX file systems, as well as hundreds of articles and blogs.