Thomas Giacomo

“the same mindsets holds true for open source innovation where the vast majority of projects fail at least as measured by user adoption but that is in fact the secret of open source innovation success through rapids iterative failure and learnings”

— From Sponsored Keynote: Open Source Innovation – Success Through Failure - Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE, CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] (May 04, 2021)

“we are more committed than ever to open open source innovation around cloud native focusing on choice flexibility and freedom to put the exact cloud native puzzle together that someone would need”

— From Sponsored Keynote: Open Source Innovation – Success Through Failure - Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE, CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] (May 04, 2021)

“Microsoft is really focused on meeting customers where they are and we truly believe that hybrid even in the fullness of time hybrid is a very durable state. Customers will have workloads that they need to keep on premises for regulations or businesses compliance purposes or even latency priorities so whether they have...”

— From GS-7: Keynote: Industry Insights - Microsoft Azure: Arpan Shah and Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE (June 23, 2020)

“modernizing your IT infrastructure your applications is actually necessary just to stay relevant and competitive as a business before even considering strategies to outpace the competition altogether and that's true of any business in any local or global industry our customers have a significant install base with exist...”

— From GS-2: Keynote 2: Thomas Di Giacomo: Engineering and Innovation Keynote, SUSE (June 23, 2020)

“we recently announced new integrations between sudo solutions and microsoft asia are for instance to manage hybrid cloud infrastructure applications and data these enables our joint customers to have a single pane of glass single operating environments for the our distributed aichi across their own data centers and dif...”

— From GS-2: Keynote 2: Thomas Di Giacomo: Engineering and Innovation Keynote, SUSE (June 23, 2020)

“cloud native technologies are now being adapted and used for edge computing itself and more importantly these advances will enable kubernetes and cloud native technologies to become the unifying platform that make edge computing available to the world”

— From Sponsored Keynote: Cloud Native is Edge Native Too! - Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo, CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] (August 17, 2020)

“I would recommend people to look at open source based solutions because that will prevent them to be in a difficult situation potentially in a few years from now. So there are open source solutions that can do that and look at viable, sustainable, healthy open source solutions that are not just one vendor but multi-ven...”

— From Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo & Daniel Nelson, SUSE | SUSECON Digital '20, SiliconANGLE theCUBE (May 20, 2020)

“We're working with a Formula One team around using AI to help them actually manage in-car mechanics and actually manage some of the things that they're doing to get super high-performance out of their vehicles. IT is really everywhere. It's not just grab your sweater and go to the data center because it's 43 degrees in...”

— From Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo & Daniel Nelson, SUSE | SUSECON Digital '20, SiliconANGLE theCUBE (May 20, 2020)

“most of the companies they need both and what was happening or what is still happening most of the time is that the two they have two different platforms that are not directly connected to each other they have to operate two different platforms or applications and data are running on two different platforms and that's...”

— From SUSE’s Bridge Between Kubernetes & Cloud Foundry: Thomas Di Giacomo, TFiR (June 24, 2020)

“that's one of the benefits of open source project is to make sure that when you go from one platform to the other platform from a different vendor you don't have to redo everything and so from the very beginning when we've started to containerize cloud foundry we wanted to make sure that it was platform a certified tha...”

— From SUSE’s Bridge Between Kubernetes & Cloud Foundry: Thomas Di Giacomo, TFiR (June 24, 2020)

“Our role now is less about today and more about tomorrow. We are leaders defining, shaping and using the innovations that will differentiate our organization and make them better, make them smarter.”

— From SUSECON 2019 Wednesday Keynote Michael Miller and Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE (April 03, 2019)

“It's all our role to make sure that we hide the technology from the business people, we just show them what they can do and how they can benefit from it. And if they do know about the technology, that usually means something didn't go well.”

— From SUSECON 2019 Wednesday Keynote Michael Miller and Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE (April 03, 2019)

“Yeah well a couple years ago if you said my kind of open SAP would be my kind of closed. we were walled garden okay and and not invented not invented here but we have really done a 180 and as you know Thomas you serve on the board of Cloud Foundry foundation with SAP we actually helped put the Cloud Foundry foundation...”

— From SUSECON 2019 Wednesday Keynote Thomas Di Giacomo and Dan Lahl from SAP, SUSE (April 03, 2019)

“our component in that was to build the service broker API so you can have services talk to clouds within clouds between clouds so you have the the services talking together so a great project. And that's under Cloud Foundry side I'm also seeing a lot more contributions from SAP under the Kubernetes side as well. you've...”

— From SUSECON 2019 Wednesday Keynote Thomas Di Giacomo and Dan Lahl from SAP, SUSE (April 03, 2019)