John Overton

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 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. 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.