Masanori Itoh

Masanori Itoh

  • Cloud Infrastructure

We live in interesting times, with significant changes seen in both technology and society. With my beginnings in OS research and development, I have experience from both sides of the industry: as a researcher, and as an engineer engaged in product development and on-premise systems. Utilizing the connections that I have built with people throughout my career, I would like to contribute to realizing connected cars that are set to bring considerable change to how connections are formed in society.

  • Department

    • Digital Infrastructure Innovation Dept.,
      InfoTech Div.

  • Biography

    • 2018-

      Engaged in research and development on DC platforms for connected cars

    • 2014-
      2018

      Hewlett-Packard Japan. Engaged in projects such as building cloud platforms, focusing on OpenStack.

    • 2004-
      2014

      NTT DATA Corporation. Engaged in cloud platform research and development and open-source SI projects

    • 1998-
      2004

      Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Engaged in projects such as research and development for cluster interconnect.

    • 1994-
      1998

      Fujitsu Limited. Developed mainframe OSes and UNIX-based data-sharing systems.

    • 1994

      MSc (Science and Physics; Kanazawa University): Researched infrared effective theory in QCD using a lattice gauge model

  • Publication List/Conference presentation

    Paper

    • Development and Operation of Personal Data Analysis Environment that Allows Appropriate Data Use without Compromising Usability, Information Processing Society of Japan, IPSJ SIG IOT65

    Book

    • “Learning Cloud Infrastructure by OpenStack”, Nikkei BP "All about Virtualization 2014", Article contribution.

    Conference presentation

    • Virtual Vehicle Fleet in your Lab - A Use Case as a High Level R&D Testbed Component, Linux Foundation, AGL AMM Spring 2025

    • E2E Observability for Connected Vehicle Services including 5G Cellular Network U-Plane Troubles, Linux Foundation, Open Source Summit Japan 2023

    • E2E Observability for Connected Vehicle Service via Distributed Tracing, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, KubeCon NA 2023

    • Reality of development activity of IT Systems for Connected Vehicles, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), Keio University, Guest Lecture, Faculty of Policy Management, 2022

    • Merits and demerits of cloud and automation technologies for Infrastructure "Operators”, Cloud Operator Days Tokyo Planning Committee, CODT 2021

    • Data Processing for Connected Car Use Case and Expectations to the SODA Foundation, SODA Foundation, SODACON 2021 Global

    • “New Society created by Connected Car and What TOYOTA is doing (ja)”, Next-generation autonomous & connected car conference 2019 Autumn, Technical (Ja)

    • “Lessons from Delivery Works Front Line ~Trouble Shooting Essentials~”, OpenStack Days Tokyo 2016,Technical Talk(Ja)

    • “Practical Onpremise Cloud by OpenStack (ja)”, QCon Tokyo 2013, Technical talk (Ja)

    • “Filesystem Layer Data Replication Method for Cloud Computing”, World Telecom Congress 2012 – Cloud Computing in the Telecom Environment, Bridging the Gap, Research Presentation (En)

    • Contribution activities in various Open Source Communities, and many technical talks and article contributions.

    Others

    • Tackling against the era of data localizations: Federated Learning Taskforce approaches, Woven by Toyota. Toyota Global Summit 2023

  • Commendation/Memberships

    • Japan OpenStack User Gorup Board Member (2010~2014)

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