Migrating your Agency to Open Systems to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Risks

Is your agency struggling with aging servers that are not keeping up with increased workload performance and capacity demands? Concerned about vendor product roadmaps or basic viability and stability, but reluctant to take action due to unknown risk factors? Join this session to hear from government IT leaders and industry experts on how you can prepare your infrastructure for a better future while effectively managing risks and costs.

About the Speakers:

Mr. Santosa has over 24 years of experience in the IT industry for establishing corporate technology visions and leading all aspects of the corporate technology deployment and development. This includes implementing of NBC Cloud Computing, optimizing the electronic distribution of organization business information products and services, business and government transformation, maximizing the speed and uptime of our enterprise infrastructure, launching new emerging technologies, establishing IT standards, policy/guidelines and enhancements for existing products and managing of project timelines.

Since joining Red Hat in 2000, Chris Runge has worked with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to understand the benefits of Linux and open-source, and how to best migrate to, deploy, and manage systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Chris is the author of several whitepapers, including
"SELinux: A New Approach to Secure Systems" and "The Path to Multi-Level
Security in Red Hat Enterprise Linux". Before joining Red Hat, Chris earned
a Masters in Theology as well as a Law degree from the University of Notre
Dame.

Leo Pleiman leads multiple consultants at a major US Government agency. Focusing Red Hat open source technologies to realize customer goals of server consolidation and utility computing. Leo Pleiman joined Red Hat in April 2006 with 28 years of IT experience in the secure government work space. He holds extensive expertise in grid computing, super computing and enterprise computing with a focus on high availability and high performance.

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