Dell / Red Hat Alliance in the U.S. Intelligence Community
A presentation at Dell Executive Briefing in in Chantilly, VA, USA by Shawn Wells
Red Hat / Dell Alliance U.S. Intelligence Community
Team Members & Focus Areas Mary Kay (MK) Falise 20+ years intelligence sales background, currently acts as team lead. Based in Annapolis, MD with focus area of NSA and NGA. mkfalise@redhat.com / 410.804.5060 Shawn Wells 10+ years deep technical and global business background in both commercial and intelligence communities. Based in Reston, VA with focus area of CIA, DIA and all DoDIIS. sdw@redhat.com / 443.534.0130 Jim Roper 25+ years intelligence sales background. Based in Denver, CO with focus on NRO and COCOMs. jroper@redhat.com / 303.898.5550 2
Corporate Dell / Red Hat Initiatives “Premier Partner” of Red Hat, highest level possible. Overall marketing theme of solutions that “just work” on Dell hardware. Primary HPC partner, global marketing campaigns and materials exclusively with Dell. Assigned alliance managers at both the global and US Federal levels. Joint solution center which posts white papers, customer videos/success stories, technical reference architectures http://www.redhat.com/partners/partnerspotlight/dell/ 3
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 4
Red Hat Enterprise Messaging 5
Red Hat Virt + Messaging on Dell R710 Summary Red Hat commissioned Principal Technologies to analyze the messaging performance of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor (KVM) and Red Hat Enterprise Messaging on Dell R710 hardware Tech Specs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 operating system Red Hat MRG Messaging Dell PowerEdge R710 2x 2.93GHz Intel Xeon X5570s 24GB RAM 6
Red Hat Virt + Messaging on Dell R710 7
Red Hat Virt + Messaging on Dell R710 8
Invited by Dell to speak at their U.S. Intelligence Community Executive Briefing. Outlined joint corporate initiatives, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), and performance benchmarks on the recently released Dell R710 hardware.
