Thompson Recognized for Thought Leadership and Innovation; to Be
Honored at Red Hat Summit 2015
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Carl Thompson, principal architect at
Rackspace, has been named the 2015 Red Hat Certified Professional of the
Year. The award honors a Red Hat Certified Professional who demonstrates
ingenuity, hard work, and expertise, and will be presented to Thompson
at Red
Hat Summit 2015, taking place June 23 - 26 in Boston.
Thompson was recognized for his thought leadership, problem-solving, and
innovation - traits which enabled him to use his status as a Red Hat
Certified Architect to design a unique Red
Hat Satellite infrastructure at Rackspace. Red Hat Satellite
provides an easy-to-use system management platform that enables
Rackspace to keep their Red Hat systems running efficiently and
securely. Rackspace manages more than 40,000 globally distributed Red Hat®
Enterprise Linux® systems. Thompson devised a Red Hat
Satellite environment that makes it easier to manage this extensive
array with minimal downtime.
In addition, Thompson wrote a complete remote procedure call application
programming interface to the Red
Hat Network portal. Portal access enables Rackspace support
engineers to use Red Hat Satellite more flexibly and automate tasks such
as new server registration, patch deployment, and rolling point
upgrades. This has reduced the time it takes to deliver servers to
customers.
For the last 16 years, the Red Hat® Certification program has had a
single, important goal of building and validating skills through a
program with rigorous, hands-on and performance based testing. Our
certifications help system administrators, application developers, and
IT architects advance their careers. Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
and all the programs that followed establish benchmarks for what an IT
professional should know when using Red Hat technology.
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Randy Russell, director, director of certification, Red Hat
"We select the Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year not only on
the basis of their technical accomplishments and in-depth knowledge of
Red Hat technologies but also for their eagerness to share their
knowledge with others. Carl Thompson, a Red Hat Certified Architect, is
responsible for a vast and reliable Red Hat Satellite infrastructure and
a mentor and resource to everyone around him. On behalf of everyone at
Red Hat - congratulations, Carl."
Carl Thompson, principal architect, Rackspace
"To be named 2015 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year is a
fantastic honor. I have worked with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one form
or another since the mid 1990s and obtained my first Red Hat certificate
in March 2007. Since then, I have completed more than 12 certifications
and continue to work on more. Working with Red Hat and the certification
program has been a truly rewarding experience and I would like to extend
my fondest gratitude to Red Hat for selecting me to be the Red Hat
Certified Professional of the Year."
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