Jorge Lach is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a System Architect in Sun’s Network Systems Group. His current role is system architecture of blade servers for markets such as Enterprise and High Performance Computing. During his 13 years at Sun, Jorge has worked in multiple projects, including I/O chip design, and was the system architect for the Sun Fire v880. Previously, Jorge has worked at Data General and Applicon/Schlumberger designing graphics accelerators. Jorge graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a BSEE, and holds an MSCS from Columbia University and an MBA from Babson College. He can be reached as jorge.lach@sun.com.