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On the lighter side of things, we ask the
industry experts what makes them tick. . . .
Mike Kelly,
Chief Information Officer, Red Hat
What first made you think of a
career in technology? What do you think will emerge as the
technology trend of 2018 and why?
I started my career in accounting. After I
experienced the systems I had to use to do
my job, I knew that my work would be better
served on systems than accounting. My dad
also spent a career in IT, so we always had
computers and discussions around their
potential. I remember going to his office
and watching punch cards flying around. I
learned to program BASIC on a TI-994a and
we would spend time together putting in
programs from Compute! Magazine. We are in a new frontier of how enterprise
IT can enable businesses to move forward.
There are a plethora of new tools, services
and solutions to be leveraged. Looking at
2018, open hybrid and multi-cloud will be
seen as the biggest trend of this year. Our
What style of management
philosophy do you employ with your
current position?
I’m a firm believer that leaders need to grant
autonomy to members of their teams. To
me, that lays the foundation of trust and
hopefully inspires people to do their best work.
At Red Hat, we have a very open, collaborative
process where we engage everybody in our
planning and our execution process. When I
first came on board, we had an open forum
to solicit feedback on our direction and we
came up with a purpose and landed on what
our strategic areas of focus were. We believe
that if people are brought into the vision,
they’ll stay. It’s about feeling attracted and
contributing to the mission, that’s our biggest
retention strategy.
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company’s core strategy is to embrace
the open hybrid cloud. We believe IT
organisations are going to operate over four
footprints: on-premises bare metal, on-
premises virtualised, private cloud and public
cloud. We don’t believe that a company is
going to make a large-scale binary shift from
on-premises to the public cloud; we don’t
believe that’s going to be the lion’s share.
OPEN HYBRID
AND MULTI-
CLOUD WILL BE
SEEN AS THE
BIGGEST TREND
OF THIS YEAR.
OUR COMPANY’S
CORE STRATEGY
IS TO EMBRACE
THE OPEN
HYBRID CLOUD.
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