Keith Basil brings over 21 years of hands-on experience in cloud and related industries. As the lead growth catalyst, Basil leads product management, marketing, engineering, and communications alignment for SUSE’s Edge business unit. Working with the SUSE global customer base, he is also driving development of cloud-native edge solutions that encompass cluster management, heterogeneous architectures, and zero-trust security approaches at scale. He was previously the Vice President of Cloud Native Infrastructure where he drove strategy and management of SUSE Rancher cloud-native products.

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, and enterprise-grade open source solutions. Built on a tech community of over 30,000 developers around the globe, SUSE powers the mission-critical workloads of over 60% of the Fortune 500 and counts everyone from SAP, Ubisoft, and Microsoft to HSBC, Walmart, and Airbus as clients. SUSE specializes in business-critical Linux, enterprise container management, and edge solutions, collaborating with partners and communities to empower its customers to innovate everywhere – from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond.

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(00:00) Sponsor

(00:27) Intro

(00:37) Keith Basil and SUSE

(00:54) What is the importance of edge in IoT?

(02:48) Outcomes companies can expect from edge

(03:49) Mission-critical edge

(05:32) IoT in mission-critical solutions

(07:22) Challenges of IoT solutions

(08:56) Scale as a main challenge

(09:31) Why are solutions not open source?

(10:33) Deploying IoT and adaptability

(12:21) How is security handled in open source?

(14:35) Future of edge computing and adoption

(15:42) When does SUSE get involved?

(17:26) Learn more and follow up

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