John Willis
Founder, Author and Entrepreneur - Botchagalupe Technologies
John Willis is an experienced IT management professional with over 40 years of experience. He is currently conducting research on DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance, as well as Generative AI. In the past, he has held various positions such as Senior Director at RedHat, VP at Docker Inc., Founder of Socketplane (which was later sold to Docker) and Enstratius (which was later sold to Dell), and VP at Opscode. He also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner specializing in Tivoli technology deployment.
John Willis is also an accomplished author, having written six IBM Redbooks on enterprise systems management and four books for IT Revolution, including the DevOps Handbook and Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge. He is working on his latest book, The Operational History of Generative AI.
Building the Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) to facilitate automated governance.
Composed of top enterprise tech leaders and cloud providers, ONUG’s Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) contributors seek to standardize how cloud providers report security events, alerts and alarms. This framework will provide consumers with greater visibility and governance and will benefit to the entire cloud ecosystem.
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