Jeffrey Snover


Title: The Devopsification of Windows Server 2016

Description:

Everyone knows that Devops is not about technology – it is about culture and process. But some technologies make some certain processes and cultures difficult and other technologies makes them easy. This session explores why and how Windows Server 2016 was developed with DevOps in mind and what this means to customers adopting a devops workflow.

Speaker

Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover

@jsnover

Jeffrey Snover is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the Chief Architect for the Enterprise Cloud Group which includes Azure Stack, Windows Server, System Center and Operations Management Suite. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products. Snover has over 30 years of industry experience with a focus on management technologies and solutions. He was an architect in the office of the CTO at Tivoli and a development manager at NetView. He has worked also as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects. Snover is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of cloud, management and language topics.