Author: Gordon Haff

Gordon Haff is Technology Evangelist at Red Hat where he works on emerging technology product strategy; writes about tech, trends, and their business impact; and is a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. Among the topics he tries to keep up with are DevOps, IoT, blockchain, AI, cloud computing, containers, and next-generation application architectures. His books include From Pots and Vats to Programs and Apps and How Open Source Ate Software. Prior to Red Hat, as an industry analyst, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in major publications on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies.

A Hub for Open Data at Mass Open Cloud

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Gordon Haff, Red Hat

Open source software is good. Open source plus open data is even better. That makes initiatives such as the Open Data Hub both useful in and of themselves and as a template for maintaining control over your data.

Access to, and the ability to collaboratively build upon, open source code is genuinely useful. If it weren’t, open source software wouldn’t have become such an important part of how technology has developed over the past couple of decades. There are ideological reasons to prefer open source as well, but its effectiveness as a development model has won over the pragmatists.

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How Computers Became More Specialized Again

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Gordon Haff, Red Hat

Computing styles ebb and flow. The centralized mainframe in the glass room largely ebbed in favor of the PC revolution that itself gave way, at least in part, to the web and the cloud. Today, we have a complex mix of massive datacenters, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and sophisticated computers we can hold in the palm of our hand.

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