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Global organizations today are facing regulatory and geopolitical pressure to establish digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on proprietary software vendors. This is driving an exodus from U.S.-based hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their managed services — "push-button" deployments of open source software like PostgreSQL, MySQL, ActiveMQ, and Elasticsearch. To remain compliant and agile, companies are considering alternative strategies that deliver more flexibility and control over their infrastructure. However, with more autonomy comes greater operational responsibility.
This webinar will explore what moving away from enterprise cloud platforms looks like in practice and the role of Kubernetes as a portability layer. Our experts will provide a framework for making this transition, and the key questions around security, maintenance, and governance that teams need to address to reduce risk and build long-term resilience.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to inventory existing managed services and identify candidates for decoupling without disrupting business operations
- What a real workload migration looks like, from planning and validation to decommissioning, and possible pitfalls
- The trade-offs and benefits of self-managed open source
- How Kubernetes operators enable consistent deployment and management across regions and providers
Presenters
Tim Carroll
Tim Carroll is a senior leader at Perforce Software, influencing product development and guiding innovation across the portfolio, including OpenLogic, Zend, SourcePro, IMSL, Akana, and Gliffy brands. He brings more than 25 years of experience in software development, including over a decade as Director of Software Development at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Throughout his career, Tim has focused on promoting open source adoption and strategy. He was a founding member and served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of the Apereo Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the use of open source in higher education. He also helped establish the Java Special Interest Group (JASIG) project incubation process and oversight group, which was later adopted and implemented at Apereo. Tim has written and presented on topics ranging from Hadoop administration and Linux migration strategies to open source lifecycle management and governance. He is particularly motivated by providing software solutions that enable people to look beyond solved problems, and mobilizing resources to overcome new interesting obstacles.
Tendai Munetsi
Tendai is a software architect with over 30 years of software development experience using various languages, primarily Java, C, C++ and .NET. During his career, he has had the opportunity to architect and lead the development and implementation of a number of mission-critical systems for large companies in the automotive, financial and healthcare industries. He has more than 15 years of experience with Java EE. In more recent years, his focus has been on DevOps, micro-service based architectures, and technologies within the Cloud Native eco-system like Docker, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot. He is a Sun-certified Java Developer, a certified ScrumMaster and certified by Microsoft in Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures.
Connor Penhale
An experienced enterprise software architect working to solve complex business problems since 2005, and focused on the confluence of software engineering and global support operations for the Fortune 500, Connor is enabling cloud native solutions for Perforce customers around the world.