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Raleigh, NC-based Red Hat has Appointed Brian Stevens as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Red Hat, the world`s leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat`s open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management.
About the Person
Brian Stevens brings 20 years of enterprise engineering, including experience as the former CTO of Mission Critical Linux, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development, virtualization and the clustering product line. As CTO, Stevens will focus on technology strategy and lead Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group. This team will define and leverage open source projects and technologies that will bring further value to the Linux platform. Prior to his position as CTO at Mission Critical Linux, Stevens spent 14-years at Digital/Compaq as a senior member of the technical staff, where he was an architect of the Tru64 Operating System and clustering products. Moreover, Stevens was a developer of the first commercial release of X Window System, as part of Project Athena, a joint venture of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Digital Equipment Corporation. He served as the technical lead and architect for the inaugural release of Digital's TruCluster product, which remains the industry's benchmark for clustered computing. Stevens also holds a US patent on secure methods of accessing computers through a firewall. Stevens holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire. He is based in Red Hat's Westford, MA office.
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