What I do, and have done, for a living
Last year I joined Dell as their cloud computing evangelist. As such I act as Dell’s ambassador to the cloud computing community (I had to supply my own sash). I also work with analysts and press and am responsible for messaging as well as blogging and tweeting (you can follow me on twitter at barton808 and you know where my blog is).
Prior to Dell I was at Lombardi Software as Senior Director of Business Development focusing on Blueprint, a cloud-based process mapping solution.
Prior to Lombardi I spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of roles from manufacturing to product and corporate marketing. My last three years there I spent as an Open Source evangelist, avid blogger, and driver of Sun’s GNU/Linux strategy and relationships.
Before Sun, I spent a year at Johnson & Johnson consumer products marketing dental floss (remember, you don’t have to floss them all, just the ones you want to keep). New Jersey winters got the better of me and after the 16th snow storm in one year (literally) I left J&J and relocated to San Francisco.
I began my professional career out of college with a four year stint in Tokyo where I worked for Sony working with ISVs for their UNIX-based “NEWS” workstation.
Fun Facts to Know and tell about Me
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, I headed east for higher education and attended Williams College and Harvard Business School.
Outside the virtual office
On the personal side, my wife and I have three young children and my hobbies include mountain biking, reading, toddler birthday parties and swimming (in kiddie pools). A couple of years ago, after living in the San Francisco bay area for over a decade, we emigrated to Austin, Texas where we currently happily reside.
Twitter: you can follow me here.
Disclaimer: The views expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of my employer Dell, or any other organization with which I have an affiliation. These are my thoughts and opinions…mine, mine, mine.
October 9, 2008 at 4:20 am |
I see you scored some ink on the Register’s pages:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/barton_george_quits_sun/
January 30, 2009 at 12:58 am |
Hey Barton,
It was nice to read your Blog and notice your credible work in Opensource while you were at SUN . Well, I want to present you an oppurtunity. We have a Technical Festival – Footprints (http://msu-footprints.org) on 20th, 21st & 22nd February 2009. The festival is the biggest in the state of Gujarat(India). It is held in our University Campus, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (http://msubaroda.ac.in).
You can come down and promote Cloud Computing & OpenSource at the festival. I am personally engaged in promoting OpenSource in many ways in this event. I will sincerely appreciate any kind of help from your side.
If you are interested, Please drop me an email, and we can work things out.
Looking Forward to a Positive response.
Regards,
Kshitij Shah
February 9, 2009 at 9:57 am |
Kshitij,
Thank you for your kind offer. It will be a bit tough to make it out Footprints this time. Thanks for thinking of me. BTW I love the website very cool!
February 9, 2009 at 12:04 pm |
Hey Barton,
Glad to know, that you considered my request. Thank You very Much. Hope we can have you over here, sometime in the future.
Regards
March 19, 2009 at 6:21 am |
Dude,
good to see you and great feedback from SWSX. good choice to enter the cloud and glad to see you are having fun.
How are the kids coming along?
stefan
September 29, 2009 at 1:40 pm |
[...] Intel Developer Forum y LinuxCon. Mientras visitaba las dependencias de Dell, fue entrevistado por George Barton, quien manejaba la estrategia en torno a Linux en Sun Microsystems y hoy es evangelista de Cloud [...]
September 29, 2009 at 2:11 pm |
[...] Intel Developer Forum y LinuxCon. Mientras visitaba las dependencias de Dell, fue entrevistado por George Barton, quien manejaba la estrategia en torno a Linux en Sun Microsystems y hoy es evangelista de Cloud [...]
December 3, 2009 at 7:08 pm |
Hello Barton,
Good Stuff. I recently came across your site here, and you have some very useful information. I’m curious, have you seen the OpSource cloud?(www.opsourcecloud.net) We have been at many of the shows you have been to recently, and I believe Treb Ryan and Jonh Rowell our CEO and CTO have spoken at a few.
In many of your postings you speak to enterprise requirements and security in clouds,and I would be interested to learn a bit more about your thoughts on how the OpSource Cloud is addressing these areas while still providing the flexibility and elasticity that makes public clouds attractive.
rlebherz@opsource.net
January 2, 2010 at 8:50 am |
Hello Barton,
I was searching for ATT synaptic storage, Nirvanix and Azure on Google and I found your site, Then I read through all the articles …
I am a cloud evangelist too. Here at gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com), we develop software to do map network drive and online backup to ATT synaptic storage, Windows Azure, Nirvanix, Amazon S3, Box.net, Google docs and more. So I am farmilar with the topics you talked about in your blog and found it interesting.
Looking to connect …
Jerry