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Brent Compton

Director Storage Solutions, Red Hat

Brent Compton is Director Storage Solution Architectures at Red Hat, leading the team responsible for building Ceph and Gluster storage reference architectures with Red Hat Storage partners. Previous enterprise software leadership roles include VP Product Management at Micromuse (now IBM Tivoli Netcool) and Product Marketing Director within HP’s OpenView software division. Within enterprise IT, Brent also served as Director Middleware Development Platforms at the LDS Church and as CIO at Joint Commission International.

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The OpenStack industry coined the metaphor 'pets and cattle.' Legacy datacenters have pets – large, expensive proprietary appliances which are given friendly names, coddled by high-cost administrators and meant not to fail. Cloud datacenters have cattle – smaller, inexpensive commodity servers which inherit their purpose through software, are managed...