City and County of San Francisco: Ansible 101 Webinar
Presented by Dynamic Systems

Dynamic Systems, your Technology Marketplace 2.0 Tier 1 Vendor, and Red Hat®  join together to bring to you an Ansible® 101 webinar focused on automation. In this webinar, Joe Maclennan from Red Hat and Dynamic Systems’ Sales Engineer, Mike Williams, give an overview of the best practices to evaluate and use Ansible within your organization and infrastructure. This webinar is for anyone new to Ansible to hear a general overview. You will explore the Ansible Automation Platform and the benefits of using Ansible. Please note, this webinar is not technical in nature but rather a good summary of what you need to know to get started with automation.

This Ansible webinar includes:

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Overview:
• What is Ansible Tower?
• How Ansible Tower Works
• What kinds of tasks can be managed automatically
• What value can Ansible bring to your organization
• Use cases 
• Securing this automation platform in the simplest way

Who should attend?

Technologists and technology leaders in the public sector will see designs and examples in the context of the unique opportunities and challenges for today’s state and local government organizations. Those outside of government are also very welcome to attend.

About Dynamic Systems

Dynamic Systems is a dedicated technology advisor and execution partner to mission critical government agencies.  Since 1991, we have been an integral partner in driving two key initiatives: assuring business outcomes and accelerating transformation.  We are a Red Hat partner and have many cleared resources available to meet your requirements.

Dynamic Systems offers the City and County of San Francisco, as well as the State of California, various purchasing vehicles which provide State departments, local governmental agencies and municipalities cost effective solutions to procure IT hardware, software, accessories, cloud solutions, services and support.  Specifically for CCSF, we offer the Technology Marketplace 2.0 contract (#99400), the CMAS contract (#3-20-70-1033J) and the Software Licensing Program (SLP) contract (#SLP-21-70-0120F) for ease of procuring Red Hat software.  

Speakers:

Mike Williams is a seasoned veteran of the technology sector and has been serving in the industry for over 35 years. Trained as a systems architect and applications engineer with an MBA, his ability to reach across and relate to every layer of an organization allows him to develop and deploy solutions that meet the demands of end users, IT managers, and CxOs alike. Mike was a Sun Microsystems systems engineer for 23 years and later made the transition to Oracle during the Oracle acquisition in Feb 2010. After 7-1/2 years at Oracle, Mike joined the Dynamic Systems team and continues to serve his customer base in the same capacity. Mike comes from a Graphics/Scientific Visualization and HPC background mainly focused on the DOE, NASA and DOD technology sectors. His recent responsibilities have been expanded to include State and Local Government as well as Education accounts. Mike continues to look for any opportunity to help customers attain their objectives and achieve continued success.

Joseph MacLennan is a Senior Solutions Architect with Red Hat. He works in support of Business Development efforts as well as enablement for Channel Partners under the North American Public Sector.  Before Joining Red Hat he was a Defence contractor with over 20 years of experience supporting the DoD and Army in the Cleared Environment.  Joseph's areas of expertise are in Infrastructure Engineering and Systems Architecting. He has an MBA in Information Systems Management as well as his RHCSA in RHEL.