Gordon Haff

Gordon Haff is cloud evangelist for Red Hat, the leading provider of commercial open source software. He is a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. He also writes extensively on and develops strategy for Red Hat’s portfolio of open hybrid cloud solutions. Prior to Red Hat, as an IT industry analyst, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications such as The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for bringing a wide range of computer systems, from minicomputers to large Unix servers, to market while at Data General. Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School of Management.He lives west of Boston, Massachusetts in apple orchard country and is an active hiker, skier, sea kayaker, and photographer. He can be found on Twitter as @ghaff, on Google+ as Gordon Haff, and by email at [email protected].