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Company Founder and CTO, Erik Troan, to Offer Insight on Automation for DevOps

• Troan to share his expertise in model-driven, version-controlled system deployment and change
• Next-generation approach to system automation enables scale at nearly zero marginal cost
• Register for DevOps Day USA 2010 at http://bit.ly/amVz9v

rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, today announced that company Founder and CTO, Erik Troan, will be speaking at DevOps Day USA 2010 to be held at the LinkedIn Corp. offices in Mountain View, California on Friday, June 25, 2010.

Billed as “the conference that brings development and operations together,” DevOps Day is an open event for discussing all topics around improving the interaction between what is traditionally considered development activity and that which is traditionally considered operations activity. The single-track conference is organized around a series of panels where open discussion amongst all conference participants is encouraged.

In the “Infrastructure as Code” panel, Troan will join fellow panelists Theo Schlossnagle of OmniTI, Luke Kanies of Puppet Labs, and Adam Jacob of Opscode. In this discussion, Troan will advocate for model-driven approaches to automation as an alternative to writing and maintaining complex scripts.

Troan’s passion for automation stems from his days at Red Hat, where he was the first engineer and ran engineering from inception through IPO. During his tenure at Red Hat, he saw system management implications of software deployments at scale. This inspired him to create Red Hat Package Manager (RPM).

Since then, Troan and the rest of the IT industry have seen system management challenges increase by orders of magnitude. Software diversity and dependencies are growing, the pace of change is accelerating, and the volume of system instances being managed is exploding—particularly as virtualization and cloud computing take hold.

The reality is that enterprise software systems are harder than ever to manage. So Troan founded rPath to pioneer a next-generation approach to system automation for scaling at nearly zero marginal cost. He makes a compelling case for model-driven, version-controlled system deployment and change. Likewise, he has keen insights on how to safely adopt virtualization and cloud architectures and how to shift focus from complex infrastructure to self-contained systems that facilitate fast, predictable IT operations.

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