Ken Crandall runs Strategic Product Management for OpenStack and Kubernetes at Rackspace. His primary focus and passion at Rackspace is working with industry leading companies to help them modernize their IT infrastructure and practices to bring them into the cloud age using open-source technologies. Ken has over 30 years of experience in product, IT management, and in solution architecture. He believes that through technology and business leadership companies can turn IT into a profitable competitive advantage. Ken has built his career around open-source technologies such as Linux, KVM, OpenStack, and more. He has also contributed to many of the best practices that companies utilize to successfully design, deploy, operate, and sustain their IT environments.