 We are about to have the the most fun here in the general session Area that you've had all day But if you've put a business card in our in our little goldfish bowl here Red hats Red hats goldfish bowl to win this special little item. You must be present to win it So far this gentleman in the front is the only one present to win So if you would like to win this car come on over and listen to my Discussion here for a brief ten minutes and there's still time to put your business card in the goldfish bowl So my name is Mike Warner. I'm a senior director at red hats I'm responsible for building the partner ecosystem around open stack and in this room it represents Really that ecosystem as an emerging area for all of us to engage with open stack As you heard this morning from Brian Stephens keynote Red hats business model are our development model is all based on open source And so with what we did this morning in our announcement relative to our do that's an important piece of what we have To ensure that our open stack distribution is going to be a really well supported certified technology But in order to have these pieces here the the hardware and software certification Software assurance global support services all of those things require programs Beneath them and so it was part of the ecosystem efforts that we're building We announced yesterday our early adopter customer program and it's really important for this room in particular because service providers Systems integrators ISVs IHVs all have an opportunity to engage with us around these partners around these customers as partners to build and deploy open stack solutions So we really are hoping to engage with the partner ecosystem around this particular early adopter customer program We're opening up to approximately 200 very Well-respected names in the in the in the industry, and we hope that you guys can participate with us the second thing that we announced yesterday after the RDO from a programmatic standpoint was the the announcement of our red hat open stack cloud infrastructure partner network and We have a variety of participants here at the actual summit in this room that are part of our Fledgling network that's building the ecosystem around around open stack There's a variety of different levels that have tiered benefits a lot of gives and gets technical business Technical and business activities that we can engage you with and we invite you to participate with us And I'll talk a little bit about the the program and some of our partners in a moment We're not going to do You know this alone is going to take partners is going to take it broad ecosystem perspective and We're open for ideas. We're open to hearing What you're seeing around open stack and we really invite you to come and engage with us and you can do that on the web You can do that by coming and talking to myself You can go and talk to the to the large Gentlemen over here who you may have seen at the at the red hat party last night We're very interested in understanding what you guys are doing around open stack from an ecosystem perspective So a big part of what we're doing on the ecosystem side is very similar to the work We do around red hat enterprise Linux certification ensuring that we have the ability to have Third-party compatibility with our distribution of open stack We're building all the elements of the certification around the pillars of open stack today It's part of the ecosystem and the and the partner network You'll get ability to help us shape that certification process We'll feature you in a catalog and a marketplace and we'll be rolling out some other extended benefits at the red hat summit in June in Boston Certification is an important piece not just for your technology, but for our common customers Giving them confidence that adopting open stack and an ecosystem set of solutions Will be compatible and supported as they go and deploy open stack So we're very very Committed to ensuring that we have both a certification process and a support process They're in place for the tech for the technology pillage pillars for for for open stack Compute storage and networking will be available Almost directly after the summit so again in order to participate in this you need to be part of the partner network So as part of the partner network I showed you we had some some different levels and an alliance level we have two alliance partners Cisco and Intel and we're really really pleased to be doing work with them The work that we're doing is not limited to just the partner Network component, but it's really around an engineering relationship and a long term Go-to-market set of activities with our alliance partners and I encourage you to go and talk to both Cisco and Intel while you're here at the show and You know really get to know what their strategies are relative to open stack and the relationship that we have with them Another company I wanted to highlight on here as well as part of our ecosystem is Morantis Morantis is doing some amazing workout in the customer community We're doing a lot of strategic engagement with Morantis And we're very very happy to be partnering with them on some customer deployments on some training activities and also product directions So I encourage you to go and talk to to Morantis Lastly, you know just want to put up a sample of some of the some of the other companies that have joined the network thus far We'll be announcing over the course of the next six to ten weeks Additional partners in the program as well as additional benefits But these are the guys that that are out there today that are actually in this room And we make sure that you go and visit their booths and understand some of the core technologies that they that they're Bringing to the table. We're we're really excited about them The question is going to be you know, where are we going with the ecosystem? What does it mean to have an ecosystem around open stack? What does it mean for us to be driving a partner network and really? It's about the whole connectivity of driving customer solutions in a really really meaningful way You know we provide a lot of the plumbing pieces of open stack in our in our distribution And we're going to be really dependent upon having a strong third-party connection both with the IHV's such as networking partners Compute guys like our OEM partners that we have today as well as ISV's and applications and technologies that are going to be Compatible with open stack so we really highly encourage you to check out us At the our website, which is redhat.com Slash open stack and there's a partner page off of that So before I get the hook here because I hear the music start coming coming to an end We are going to pull the name for this very prized Silver-lit hobby grade interactive Bluetooth remote control vehicle But you must be present in order to win And my lovely assistant mr. Mike wait you can call me Vanna white We'll be pulling the name Momentarily and the winner is Arjun Dahan from Interzion Interzion is Arjun here. Yes. He was over here waiting. So it's fabulous. We have a winner here. So Last message here, we absolutely are very very Interested in partnering with your your company and ensuring that we have an opportunity to meet with you guys and And understand where we might be able to engage with you from an ecosystem perspective. So please look us up Feel free to come and grab us. We're we're building this with and for you And we're super excited about the opportunity around open stack. So thank you