Scale and standardize your infrastructure in Azure, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux container features and developer offerings
Delivering 192% ROI with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure
Speakers
Lee Sustar | Principal Analyst, Forrester
Lee Sustar is a Principal Analyst at Forrester, covering public cloud interests, containers, and application modernization serving IT infrastructure and operations professionals. He previously worked as an independent security officer at a Chicago-based financial institution, where he was a member of the Cloud Center of Excellence. He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) certifications and is a fellow at the Ponemon Institute, a leading information security research organization. In his earlier work as a technology journalist, he specialized in enterprise information security best practices, payment card industry (PCI), regulatory issues, mega breaches, threat intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) security, privacy, iOS security, young hackers, cloud security, cyber armies and advanced persistent threats.
Nikoletta Stergiou | Consultant, Forrester
Nikoletta Stergiou is a Consultant on Forrester’s Total Economic Impact team who interviewed several of Red Hat and Microsoft customers and discovered the findings associated with the Total Economic Impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft Azure.
Gunnar Hellekson | Vice President and General Manager, Linux, Red Hat
Gunnar Hellekson is the Vice President and General Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux business. Before that, he was Chief Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector group. Gunnar is a founder of Open Source for America, one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100 for 2010, and was voted one of the FedScoop 50 for industry leadership. He was a founder of the Military Open Source working group, a member of the SIIA Software Division Board, the Board of Directors for the Public Sector Innovation Group, the Open Technology Fund Advisory Council, New America’s California Civic Innovation Project Advisory Council, and the Civic Commons Board of Advisors. He is also co-host of the Dave and Gunnar Show. Prior to joining Red Hat, he worked as a developer, systems administrator, and IT director for a number of Internet businesses. He has also been a business and IT consultant to not-for-profit organizations in New York City. Gunnar’s CV is available in HTML, PDF, and on GitHub.
Jeremy Winter | Corporate Vice President for Azure Cloud Native, Microsoft
Jeremy Winter pioneered Microsoft’s cloud-first Azure management offerings—today, Jeremy brings more than 25 years of experience as a developer, operations, and program manager to his role. An entrepreneur at heart, Jeremy has an innate talent for identifying market gaps and is passionate about innovating new solutions to support and empower customers, whether that’s incubating a new solution, building a business, or through acquisition. His leadership is centered on people, trust, and humility. As the product leader of cloud-native management and networking, Jeremy is responsible for a broad portfolio delivering the common control plane (ARM), hybrid (Azure Arc), cloud-native (Kubernetes and Upstream) application platform and networking services (e.g., Express Route, Gateway, Private Link). Each dimension of his portfolio is key to supporting the workloads of both today and the future.