The Symform experience resulted in a successful exit when the startup was acquired by Quantum Corp. We scaled it to be one of the largest decentralized storage centers.” “Cloud storage at the time was really high, that was a very expensive bill every month. “The idea was how to build something that could store the world’s data efficiently without having to pay the cost of cloud computing,” Tabbara said. He and another Microsoft employee left in 2007 to found a company that would leverage a distributed computing model for global data storage without incurring high fees from cloud providers. The next venture after Microsoft for Tabbara was Symform Inc. “That effort led to Microsoft’s entry into cloud computing.” Cloud storage and open source “We were trying to figure out how to build massive data centers that could run at the scale of Hotmail,” Tabbara recalled. Hotmail offered a testing ground for other company projects, including how to repurpose workloads for different servers. Microsoft wanted to offer a Web-based mail offering, so it purchased Hotmail in December of 1997 for between $400 and $500 million, the largest all-cash internet startup acquisition at the time.ĭespite igniting what would become an era of free user email services, the Hotmail acquisition served another purpose for the software giant. The mid-1990s was a time when the internet was beginning to gain traction, although most access was still through dial-up services. More than 20 patents were filed by Tabbara and his team at Microsoft in support of this work. Following graduation from the University of Florida in 1995, he was immediately hired by Microsoft Corp. Over the course of 12 years in the research organization at Microsoft, Tabbara worked on a variety of projects involving early iterations of Windows and laid the groundwork for an initiative that ultimately became Azure Cloud. Tabbara’s interest in the cloud and control planes was formed early in his career. The best kept secret in cloud is the control plane.” Birth of Azure Cloud “People want a centralized point of control, and they do that around a control plane regardless of the workload. “Our worldview is you will basically manage everything through the control plane,” Tabbara said. Tabbara is on a quest to democratize the control plane. His journey has taken him from developing software for the largest software company in the world to the open-source community where he is now seeking to reshape how enterprises will manage cloud services in the future. Tabbara, founder and chief executive officer of Upbound Inc., has followed his early interest in technology for the better part of the past four decades. “I was immediately hooked on tech and entrepreneurship.” “I started programming when I was nine,” said Tabbara, in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE Media. He got his first computer as a child and started his own company at 14. At a time when kids his age were playing Little League baseball or collecting marbles, Bassam Tabbara (pictured) was already a developer.
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