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udo m. rader ☕ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🐧

New instance means a new , right 😎

I have been working in IT for more than 25 years and have been using and for just as long. Even though I originally come from a programming background (, ), today as I mainly deal with and especially . We run the majority of our operational infrastructure on as a virtualisation base and use for our clusters.


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What really drives me today, however, is , although I'm not talking so much about the current (already fading) hype surrounding it. I am currently fine tuning my research proposal for my studies, which will start in autumn.
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Many of the customers I have dealt with in recent years are not allowed or do not want to use public services, which poses major challenges for them (costs, qualified personnel, state-of-the-art operational procedures, ...). For this reason, my research will focus at the extent to which can help to operate local, on-premise IT infrastructure cost-efficiently and securely.

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Other than that, I'm a keen trail 🏃 and enjoy all the sports you can do in the Tyrolean mountains 🚵. I'm also very much in favour of European unification and - all weaknesses and problems aside - I can't see a better alternative to the

Over and out 👋.

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