Dr. 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 54%. 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. Overton has more than 65 issued patents world-wide, has peer-reviewed publications across a number of academic disciplines, and holds post-graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago.