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Make OpenStack More Awesome
His prescient views on the profound disruption caused by cloud computing have made Randy Bias one of the industry’s most influential voices. He is an evangelist who was among the first to articulate the generational transition of IT from mainframe to enterprise computing and then to cloud in addition to popularizing the cloud server "pets vs. cattle" meme.
Randy was an early and vocal supporter of the OpenStack project and Cloudscaling was part the initial OpenStack launch in summer of 2010. He led the teams that deployed the first public OpenStack storage cloud (Swift) outside of Rackspace, and the first public OpenStack compute cloud (Nova). He is a founding Board Member of the OpenStack Foundation. He continues to be a vocal advocate of OpenStack, through his company, his writing and his speaking engagements.
His voice is frequently heard in media outlets such as GigaOm, InformationWeek, The Economist, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ReadWriteWeb, O’Reilly Radar, Light Reading, and others, in addition to the Cloudscaling blog. He is a regular keynote speaker and panelist at events from the OpenStack Summit to VMworld, Structure, eComm, CloudConnect, Interop, CloudBeat, CloudExpo, The Web Summit, and Gluecon.
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Nova,Swift,Glance,Keystone,Quantum,Cinder,Ceilometer,Heat,Ironic,Oslo,Openstack-ci,Openstack-manuals,QA,Deployment,Watcher,Masakari,EC2API,Neutron,Horizon,Skyline,Octavia,Ec2-api
Randy was part of the original launch of OpenStack in the summer of 2010, part of the inaugural set of OpenStack Foundation board of directors in 2012, and has been working closely with the community off and on since then. My biggest contributions to OpenStack's successes to date have been evangelizing and bringing major new adopters to the community. My early evangelization work was the State of the Stack annual presentation given at the OpenStack Summits amongst other public thought leadership pieces. My OpenStack startup brought major adopters such as AT&T, Walmart, Lithium, Ubisoft, LivingSocial, and others.
I have served in various positions on the OpenStack Foundation, Linux Foundation, Linux Foundation Networking, amongst others such as AECC.
Leading with vision, driving awareness and brand, and connecting elements of the community together.
Re-invigorate mass adoption, make OpenStack easier to adopt for smaller and mid-size enterprise customers looking for VMware alternatives.
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