Episode 26 - Red Hat's Cloud Platforms and Binge Watching with Ashesh Badani

Ashesh Badani is senior vice president of Cloud Platforms, responsible for leading Red Hat’s broad hybrid cloud portfolio, including product development and go-to-market strategy for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Cloud Suite, and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure. In this role, Badani has helped to solidify Red Hat as a hybrid cloud and enterprise Kubernetes leader. Notably, under Badani’s leadership, Red Hat expanded OpenShift from an award-winning Platform-as-a-Service solution to the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform with 1,000+ customers spanning all regions and industries. 

Topic/Timeline 

0:00 - Intro and Ashesh/POP renew an old rivalry 
0:45 - Ashesh's journey to Red Hat 
1:39 - Ashesh discusses his division/role at Red Hat 
2:35 - Ashesh's amazing ability to present tech topics in a simple/easy to understand manner 6:04 - Openshift and its evolution 
11:25 - Red Hat Virtualization - Ashesh provides details on how this helps organizations 
18:20 - Knative and Functions 
21:01 - Multi Cloud Support 
29:54 - Culture drives innovation just as much as Technology. 
33:52 - Ashesh discusses his binge watching habits and what show's he watching now. 
38:42 - Work Ashesh is most proud of. 
 

Episode Links: 
https://www.openshift.com/ 
https://www.sysdig.com/ 
https://www.redhat.com/en/success-stories/ford-motor-company https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/advanced-cluster-management https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloud-pak-for-management 

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