Bangkok--26 Mar--Star PR
March 29, 2007
Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit
On behalf of Red Hat Asia Pacific, I invite you to attend the Red Hat Asia Pacific Strategy and Product Media Briefing being held on March 29 (Thu) at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel.
This media briefing will mark one of Red Hat’s biggest announcements to date, headlined by a new go-to-market strategy and landmark plans for Malaysia. Come join us as we unveil our vision of the virtual enterprise and its transformational impact on technology, and how it will empower Asian enterprises with new economics and reduced costs.
Shane Owenby, Regional Manager for ASEAN at Red Hat Asia Pacific, will lead the media briefing.
What Red Hat is unveiling is a unique Enterprise Linux virtualization platform that will enable businesses to achieve what was impossible with proprietary software. Red Hat open source solutions fundamentally shift the economic and innovation model for IT.
But this disruption in IT economics isn't just about acquisition cost. The IT environment has changed. We've gone past the point where capital expenditure is the largest cost component for servers. Operating expenses such as management, administration, power, cooling and real estate are the largest costs today. Red Hat recognized this years ago and is unveiling a strategy to systematically attack every cost driver of IT. Not just the capital cost savings - but to fundamentally transform the economics of operating expenses, while improving service delivery.
DetailsDate:
March 29, 2007 (Thu)
Time:
11 am — 1 pmVenue:
Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Asoke 1, Level 2Bangkok 10110 Thailand
RSVP: Kesama Trairattananusorn Star PR Tel. 02 653 5055 Mobile. 081 345 8440
Spokesperson Profile
Shane Owenby
Regional Manager, ASEAN
Red Hat Asia Pacific
As the Regional Manager for South East Asia, Shane leads overall business operations for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. Shane's responsibilities include sales leadership, staff management and technical strategy planning.
Prior to his appointment, Shane was the Manager of Red Hat's Asia Pacific Sales Engineering team. His responsibilities included managing a team of sales engineers across Asia Pacific as well as directly helping close large Enterprise Linux opportunities. Shane brought his Linux and Open Source engineering expertise to the Singapore-based Asia Pacific sales team gained during his tenure as a RHCE qualified Senior Sales Engineer based in Sydney, Australia.
Prior to Red Hat, Shane worked at an Open Source collaborative software company called CollabNet Inc., based in San Francisco. As an International Technical Operations Manager and an International Pre-Sales Manager, he managed a team of sales engineers across Asia and North America and consulted on Open Source software development for his customers.
Prior to CollabNet, Shane was a software engineer at the Linux Technology Center (LTC) at IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. At that time, he managed technical relationships with Linux vendors including Red Hat. He was also a Linux technology consultant for IBM executives and spoke at various Linux conferences as an IBM representative. He was one of the first Linux engineers in IBM LTC and was also a contributor to Open Source software on the Apache web server project.