In this podcast with Christopher Ferris of IBM, learn more about IBM’s early role in emerging technologies. In our conversation with Ferris, he talks about the success of products based on how they can generate and sustain an open source ecosystem around their tooling. Ferris also talks about some of the obstacles currently facing the container ecosystem at large, including feedback about how networking and storage technologies should function in the near future. Christopher Ferris is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief technical officer of open technology in the IBM Cloud organization. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 36-plus year career in IT, and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has overall technical responsibility for all of IBM's strategic open technology initiatives, including OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, the Hyperledger Project, the Open Container Initiative, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Mesos, Node.js, Docker and more.
In this podcast with Christopher Ferris of IBM, learn more about IBM’s early role in emerging technologies. In our conversation with Ferris, he talks about the success of products based on how they can generate and sustain an open source ecosystem around their tooling. Ferris also talks about some of the obstacles currently facing the container ecosystem at large, including feedback about how networking and storage technologies should function in the near future.
Christopher Ferris is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief technical officer of open technology in the IBM Cloud organization. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 36-plus year career in IT, and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has overall technical responsibility for all of IBM's strategic open technology initiatives, including OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, the Hyperledger Project, the Open Container Initiative, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Mesos, Node.js, Docker and more.