John Willis

John Willis
., DTO Solutions

Web site | @botchagalupe

John has over three decades working in the IT trenches managing complex infrastructures. Prior to joining DTO Solutions, John was VP of Services at Opscode, makers of Chef and the Opscode Platform. John also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. John has trained more than 10,000 people on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. John has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management.

Link to published works:claimid.com/botchagalupe

Sessions

9:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Cloudy Operations
Location: Portland_Ballroom
Tags: cloud, operations
John Willis (DTO Solutions)
Average rating: ***..
(3.75, 8 ratings)
In the cloud world new paradigms and memes are appearing :- the rise of the "DevOps", "Infrastructure == Code" and "Design for Failure". Given that cloud is fundamentally about volume operations of a commoditized activity, operations become a key battleground for competitive efficiency. Automation and orchestration appear key areas for the future development of the cloud. Read more.
1:40pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing
 Location: Portland 251
Tags: cloud_computing, operations, open_source, tools, systems_management
Mark Hinkle (Citrix), John Willis (DTO Solutions), Alex Honor (ControlTier open source automation project)
Average rating: **...
(2.70, 20 ratings)
The proliferation of cloud computing is inevitable, hosted apps, software-as-as-service and now dynamic on-demand utility computing is becoming the norm. The session will be a “fire-side” chat style discussion of the types of challenges presented by IT management operations personnel and how they can manage cloud infrastructure using open source tools. Read more.
10:40am Thursday, 07/22/2010
The IT Philharmonic: How Out of Tune Are Your Operations?
Operations
 Location: D135
Tags: operations, devops, agile_infrastructure, agile_operations
John Willis (DTO Solutions), Damon Edwards (DTO Solutions)
Average rating: ****.
(4.43, 14 ratings)
In an orchestra, people with differing talents, timing, responsibilities, and tools all somehow come together to make beautiful music. Is the task of achieving highly efficient and reliable web operations all that different? In this light-hearted session based on real world examples, we'll examine the culture and tooling of highly effective and well orchestrated web operations. Read more.
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.
  • ActiveState
  • CommonPlaces
  • DB Relay
  • FireHost
  • GoDaddy
  • HP
  • HTSQL by Prometheus Research
  • Impetus Technologies Inc.
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Kaltura
  • Marvell
  • Mashery
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • Oracle
  • Parallels
  • PayPal
  • Percona
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rhomobile
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SourceGear
  • Symbian
  • VoltDB
  • WSO2
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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