(SRE) Leveraging SRE Practices In Brown-field environments, 200826 Jim Katsos, Redhat,
Channel: Meetup Madness
Date: 23/09/2020

Enterprise IT environments have been built up over decades and are generally mixed and diverse, encompassing a broad range of infrastructure and operating system versions, running a diverse set of applications.
The role of operations has also evolved over many years, favouring teams working in siloed domains like network and infrastructure, database and applications, each with their own tooling and approaches.
To balance the risk of outage due to change, often complex and involved change control processes had to be implemented.
Yet business is demanding that traditional IT move faster than ever before often with the same or less budget and people. Change is required but the big question is how?
In this session, the Red Hat team will examine how traditional operations teams can start to leverage some of the learnings, principles and tooling used by SRE teams to help meet the challenges of modern IT in real-world enterprise (brownfield) environments.

1st SPEAKER(S):
Jim Katsos
Jim Katsos has more than 20 years’ experience in the enterprise software industry. He is currently responsible for promoting the Red Hat cloud and automation portfolio to the ANZ market. Jim has held various leadership roles across technical presales, professional services and research and development and has a strong technical background across multiple software companies.