Ted Smith

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About Ted Smith

Western Canada Regional Sales and Marketing professional. I am highly competent with complex sales, well versed across a wide portfolio of technology including containers, kubernetes, virtualization, cloud, mobility, security, application management and delivery, networking, IT operations and consulting services. Specific expertise with transformational technologies such as kubernetes, microservices, cloud, virtualization, and DevOps that provide companies a profound positive impact. I work at Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions. Red Hat’s 3 Primary pillars of business is, 1. Open Hybrid Cloud 2. Cloud Native Application Development 3. Automation and Management Red Hat is about helping organizations with the evolution of application development and the shift in business and IT strategy. What people refer to a Digital or Business Transformation. Modern applications are designed to be resilient, not rely on DR at the infrastructure level. They run across many systems with the ability to grow and shrink dynamically and therefore withstand levels of failure with in the systems that support the application. It allows developers much faster “idea to production” development with the continuous development of applications, with increased quality of code that allows further experimentation, which in turn improves and accelerates the application life cycle. This allows for better, more customized applications for the business and its customers. It allows for greater integration between applications and data sources … leveraging services across multiple clouds, at once. It provides application portability providing companies flexibility to run these applications on prem or on any public cloud provider. This location can move on demand as required for any reason. Modern applications and cloud infrastructure are designed to be flexible and dynamic unlike the rigid infrastructure and applications over the last 30 years.