Audience: All levels
About: This panel will explore the merits of a distro delivery vs a delivered service.
Panel
Host:
David Flanders, OpenStack
Foundation
Panel Members:
Chris Wright, Red Hat
Roland Chan, Aptira
Rik
Harris, Telstra
Tyler Britten, BlueBox – an
IBM company
Peter Lees,
SUSE
Speaker Bio: Chris Wright –
CTO, Red Hat
Chris Wright is
Vice President and
Chief Technologist at Red Hat where he is leading engineers who work on cloud computing, distributed storage, software defined networking and network functions virtualization, containers, machine learning, and continuous delivery. During his more than 20 years as a software engineer he has worked in the telecom industry on high availability and distributed systems and in the
Linux industry on security, virtualization, and networking. He has been a Linux developer for over 15 years, most of that time spent deep in the
Linux kernel.
He is passionate about open source software serving as the foundation for next generation
IT systems. He lives in sunny
Portland, Oregon where he is happily working with open source projects such as OpenDaylight,
Open vSwitch,
OPNFV, OpenStack,
Open Container Initiative, and
Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Chris is currently a board member of OpenDaylight and OPNFV.
Speaker Bio: Roland Chan –
COO, Aptira
Roland has been in the
Internet industry for almost twenty years, running business critical technology delivery organisations to build some of
Australia’s largest telco,
ISP and digital media solutions at OzEmail, WorldCom and Telstra.
Roland’s focus on engaging with customers and understanding their needs combined with a cutting edge technology delivery method makes Aptira a flexible delivery partner for any organisation.
In
2015, Roland assumed Aptira’s seat on the OpenStack Foundation
Board of Directors.
Speaker Bio: Rik Harris –
Cloud Technology Strategy, Telstra
Rik is an experienced
IT professional who has been working in corporate and government
Australia for around 25 years. He has been with Telstra since
2003 in several roles, including running
IT infrastructure deployment teams, managing engineering for Telstra internal shared infrastructure and currently responsible for technology strategy for Telstra’s Cloud business.
Speaker Bio: Tyler Britten – Technical
Advocate, Bluebox-an IBM
Company
Tyler has spent the last 15 years working with cloud, virtualization, and infrastructure technologies. Prior to joining
Blue Box, an IBM Company, Tyler was a
Principal Technical
Marketing Manager and a vSpecialist at
EMC. He also worked as a technical consultant for a small infrastructure reseller, a network engineer for a
Fortune 1000 company, and also freelanced as an
IT consultant for small businesses.
Speaker Bio: Peter Lees – Chief Technologist, SUSE
Peter Lees is chief technologist for SUSE in Asia-Pacific, charged with developing awareness of SUSE technologies & capabilities throughout the region. He has extensive experience in the
IT industry, especially in open systems, IT infrastructure, and network computing, including roles at NetApp and
Sun Microsystems, together with early involvement in Australia’s Internet industry.
- published: 25 May 2016
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