Red Hat Names Brian Stevens CTO

Red Hat, Inc. (www.redhat.com), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, announced the appointment of Brian Stevens to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of Engineering.

Stevens, formerly vice president of Operating System, Storage and Clustering Development for Red Hat, has spent the past four years leading Red Hat’s enterprise strategy.

He brings 20 years of enterprise engineering, including experience as the former CTO of Mission Critical Linux, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development, virtualization and the clustering product line. As CTO, Stevens will focus on technology strategy and lead Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group.

"Brian's enterprise experience both before, and with Red Hat has been instrumental to our continued success in building out the Open Source Architecture," said Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat.

Prior to his position as CTO at Mission Critical Linux, Stevens spent 14 years at Digital/Compaq as a senior member of the technical staff, where he was an architect of the Tru64 Operating System and clustering products.

Moreover, Stevens was a developer of the first commercial release of X Window System, as part of Project Athena, a joint venture of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Digital Equipment Corporation.

He served as the technical lead and architect for the inaugural release of Digital's TruCluster product, which remains the industry’s benchmark for clustered computing. Stevens also holds a US patent on secure methods of accessing computers through a firewall.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible.