Dell / Red Hat Alliance in the U.S. Intelligence Community

A presentation at Dell Executive Briefing in September 2010 in Chantilly, VA, USA by Shawn Wells

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Red Hat / Dell Alliance U.S. Intelligence Community

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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

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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

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 4

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Red Hat Enterprise Messaging 5

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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

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Red Hat Virt + Messaging on Dell R710 7

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Red Hat Virt + Messaging on Dell R710 8