Alan Robertson is a well-known and frequently-requested speaker and internationally-recognized expert on High-Availability, speaking several times per year at conferences across the world.
Alan founded the industry-leading High-Availability for Linux (Linux-HA[1]) project where he has been an active developer, architect and project leader since about 1997. He maintains the Linux-HA project web site at http://linux-ha.org/[1], and has been a key developer for the open source heartbeat program. In the open source world, he worked for SuSE[2] for a year, then joined IBM's Linux Technology Center[3] in March 2001.
Alan also jointly leads the Open Cluster Framework[4] effort to define standard APIs for clustering, and provide an open source reference implementation of these APIs.
Before joining SuSE, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for Bell Labs[5]. He worked for Bell Labs 21 years in a variety of roles. These included developing telecommunication products, designing communication controllers and providing leading-edge computing support.
He obtained an MS in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University[6] in 1978 and a BS in Electrical Engineering from OSU in 1976.
| [1] | http://linux-ha.org/ |
| [2] | http://www.suse.com/ |
| [3] | http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/ |
| [4] | http://opencf.org/ |
| [5] | http://bell-labs.com |
| [6] | http://osu.okstate.edu/ |
This information provided courtesy of the Linux-HA project at http://linux-ha.org/