Randy Bias on Clubhouse

Bio

Randy Bias is a recognized influencer in cloud computing. An entrepreneur, writer, speaker and futurist, Randy accurately predicted the geometric growth rate of AWS. He is an advocate for open source technology as a foundational business model element in companies traditionally tied to proprietary models. Notably, Randy has initiated and led successful open sourcing efforts for several traditional ISVs. He was declared a top 10 cloud pioneer by InformationWeek & Digital Influencer by Forbes.

Randy was among the first to articulate the technological and cultural drivers that defined the success of hyperscale cloud as a segment of the global IT spend. He correctly identified the 30-year megatrend shifts from mainframe to client/server to cloud, and in the process popularized the pets vs. cattle meme as a construct for describing the fundamental difference between how enterprise stacks and cloud stacks are managed. In the process he coined “cloud scale” or “cloudscaling” as a descriptor for how cloud stacks differ.

A pioneer and early, vocal advocate for the OpenStack project, Randy identified the devops and agile development movements as fundamental disruption forces that redefined the roles and relevant skill sets in enterprise IT leadership. Randy’s advocacy and public speaking have resulted in over 300,000 views and 5,000 downloads of his cloud and IT presentations on slideshare.

He led teams that achieved numerous cloud firsts, including the first public cloud in Korea, the first global carrier NFV cloud for AT&T, and the first “cattle cloud” for a Fortune 5 company (Walmart). Randy led the charge as change agent and expert disruptor within EMC, beginning with open sourcing of products, followed by the launch of the first mass-production OpenStack-powered appliance. He founded Cloudscaling, acquired by EMC in 2014.

At Juniper, he transformed their Contrail/OpenContrail initiative by rebooting and reinvigorating its open source community. This included rebranding of the open source project, induction into the Linux Foundation, and driving changes to processes, procedures, documentation, test/dev environments, and architecture. In addition to this, Randy owned all open source strategy across Juniper while also running a strategic R&D team focused on developing open source contributions and elevating the visibility of Juniper Networks as an open source player.