My blog difficulties have delayed this blog entry. I wanted to do a "Farewell IONA" blog (and I might do something later) and then an introduction to my new job at Red Hat.
After over 11 years at IONA (my couple of years at Aurora Technologies are officially included) I moved to Red Hat in May of this year. Not long after my move I started hearing rumors of IONA's acquistion. And, of course, now IONA is part of Progress Software.
My move was prompted much less by IONA's fate than by what Red Hat is doing with MRG. It was time for change and MRG represents something very exciting going on in the industry. There is a lot I can and will be saying about MRG on this IPBabble and I'll only give a short introduction in this entry.
Red Hat's expansion into emerging technologies is an effort to provide more value to its customers. This work includes, among other things, virtualization, management and Messaging, Realtime and Grid (MRG). I'll be explaining more about details in later posts but briefly:
Of course there are lots more details but that is the very high level view. I'll be diving in a lot more on ipbabble.com.
I have a hybrid role: I work for Brian Stevens, the CTO, in the Office of CTO focused on MRG. In that way I'm very much an evangelist and customer focused solution architect. But in the same organization I'm an engineer working on MRG. So I have to contribute to the engineering effort too. It is both a very rewarding and very challenging role. Getting up to speed on all the various aspects of MRG has been a steep learning curve despite my background in distributed computing and messaging. Thankfully I work with a really smart and dedicated team that has been generous with sharing their knowledge. I'm sure I'll be introducing some of them on this blog in the future.
UPDATE: Thank you to Lana for spotting the "bog" typo.
After over 11 years at IONA (my couple of years at Aurora Technologies are officially included) I moved to Red Hat in May of this year. Not long after my move I started hearing rumors of IONA's acquistion. And, of course, now IONA is part of Progress Software.
My move was prompted much less by IONA's fate than by what Red Hat is doing with MRG. It was time for change and MRG represents something very exciting going on in the industry. There is a lot I can and will be saying about MRG on this IPBabble and I'll only give a short introduction in this entry.
Red Hat's expansion into emerging technologies is an effort to provide more value to its customers. This work includes, among other things, virtualization, management and Messaging, Realtime and Grid (MRG). I'll be explaining more about details in later posts but briefly:
- Messaging - an open source (Qpid), open standard (AMQP) based, platform independent, messaging infrastructure.
- Realtime - a predictable, low-latency linux kernel.
- Grid - an open source (Condor) HPC, HTC platform that provides the flexibility of local grids, remotes grids and cloud computing.
Of course there are lots more details but that is the very high level view. I'll be diving in a lot more on ipbabble.com.
I have a hybrid role: I work for Brian Stevens, the CTO, in the Office of CTO focused on MRG. In that way I'm very much an evangelist and customer focused solution architect. But in the same organization I'm an engineer working on MRG. So I have to contribute to the engineering effort too. It is both a very rewarding and very challenging role. Getting up to speed on all the various aspects of MRG has been a steep learning curve despite my background in distributed computing and messaging. Thankfully I work with a really smart and dedicated team that has been generous with sharing their knowledge. I'm sure I'll be introducing some of them on this blog in the future.
UPDATE: Thank you to Lana for spotting the "bog" typo.
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