Presidio Federal sponsors a MeriTV event providing insights from our partner Red Hat. John Dvorak is Chief Architect, North American Public Sector at Red Hat. In this MeriTV segment, John is being interviewed by Carolyn Boyd of MeriTalk. John’s experience in emerging technologies, open source and cybersecurity add great dimension to this segment.

John discusses:

• The challenges of protecting data on the various layers of the edge including: Tactical Edge, Industrial Edge and Forward Edge.
• The importance of identity management given the need to reach back to the enterprise with edge computing
• Mesh topologies on the edge that leverage 5G or low earth orbit communication networks
• Typical constraints at the edge including limited connectivity and power, the ability to use commodity infrastructure, flexibility to run different workloads and the need for low maintenance systems
• Challenges of data security when protecting data for military purposes, scientific purposes, corporate purposes.
• Cryptographic solutions for data protection and the partners who support this including Zettaset and IBM and Presidio Federal
• Innovations on the horizon
• Use cases with U.S. Navy, International Space Station and smart cities that leverage telemetry data to support drone technology