Alasdair Rawsthorne Founder & CTO

Prior to founding Transitive, Alasdair was a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Manchester for over 20 years. Alasdair’s research at the University in the 1980’s focused on microprocessors and microcomputers, and their associated operating systems, device drivers, compilers, and development environments. In 1995, with a team of graduate students, Alasdair began development of the Dynamic Binary Translation software that launched Transitive in October 2000. Alasdair also played a prominent technical role in the design of a successful range of CPU products for ICL in the 1970s.

“That virtualization has 'arrived' and is driving server consolidation and disaster recovery in the data center is a given. In terms of virtualization, companies are beginning to look at legacy hardware and evaluate moving those workloads to newer and more powerful platforms.”

John Enck
Research Vice President
Gartner