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January 12, 2021
What is the book that changed your life? (not novels or religious texts)

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Alessandro Perilli
GM, Management Strategy, Red Hat
Alessandro Perilli
  • Senior leader in top open source company, charting long-term strategy for enterprise management, cloud computing, automation, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence for Red Hat
  • Member of the European AI Alliance within the European Commission
  • Founder of the H+ research project about human enhancement technologies
  • Former global analyst, leading research in private cloud computing for Gartner
  • Pioneer in the virtualization industry as former FG2000 advisor and founder of virtualization.info
  • Co-author of the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
  • Author of a cybersecurity book for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
  • Creator of one of the first ethical hacking trainings in the world for Mondadori Informatica
  • Art collector and former corporate sponsor for Tate
  • Keynote speaker for 20 years in a row
  • Inventor: US Patent 10778701 - Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools

Things I Know a Bit About

Artificial Intelligence
Automation & Orchestration
Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity
Enterprise IT Management
Virtualization

Things I’m Interested In

Augmented Reality
Crowdsourcing
Evolutionary Psychology
Fine Arts
Genetics
Home Automation
Industrial Design
Information Management
Intelligent Traffic Management
Interior Design
Mobile Computing
Natural Language Processing
Neuromarketing
Neuroscience
Personalised Recommendations And Services
Self-Driving Vehicles
Self-Manufacturing
Self-Publishing
Social Networking
Transhumanism
Travel Management
UI Design
Wearable Computing

Things I’m Building

  • H+
    An open research project about human enhancement technologies like neural interfaces, augmented reality, biohacking, bionic prosthetics, genetic engineering, nanorobotics, and wearables.

Things I Have Built

Ansible Security Automation
An open source-based solution to integrate and orchestrate 3rd party cybersecurity solutions through Ansible (patented).

virtualization.info
From 2003 to 2010, the most authoritative online publication about virtualization worldwide, counting 7 million visitors per year at its peak of popularity (sold).

Things I Have Invented

US Patent 10778701
Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools

Things I Wrote Here

  • On the Apple Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro
  • Analyst Relations Worst Practices
  • The Android Experience
  • Open Source for Business People

Things I Wrote Elsewhere

  • Climbing the Cloud Orchestration Curve
  • Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms
  • Devising a Cloud Application Onboarding Strategy

Things I Said on Stage

  • No Experience Required

Things I Said on Twitter

January 15

Early on in my career, I realized that the only real token people can spend is trust. To me a promise must always mean something. Keeping high integrity is the only way you can get to the end and be proud of yourself.

January 15

“Its economy advances at such a sluggish pace in good times -a paltry 0.8% on average from 2014 to 2019– that Italy can’t generate gains in tax revenues…to match the rising trajectory in government spending”

The US now has a debt level that rivals Italy https://fortune.com/2021/01/14/us-debt-level-italy-united-states-debts/

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Special Projects

A Contrarian View

A rarely updated blog, home of very long posts:

NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future

Life-Changing Books

Every week, I ask my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances a simple question:

“What is the book that changed your life?”

Startups Worth Watching

Occasionally, I’m impressed.

This is a list of startups with enormous potential that I consider worth watching.

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