June 7, 2023

Panel Discussion: Open Source and SCOM

Adam Kinniburgh / Bruce Cullen / Stoyan Chalakov / Vincent de Vries

Find out what our panel of experts had to say about how they have seen SCOM use open source in the past, discuss where they have seen open source working successfully elsewhere, and what they would like to see Microsoft do with SCOM and open source in the future.

Meet the author

Author

Adam Kinniburgh

VP Innovation @SquaredUp

Adam has been with SquaredUp for three years now. In his role, he's responsible for all the work they do with their customers to get as much value out of SquaredUp as possible. Most of his career has been Systems Engineer-focused at various levels. From starting out on a busy IT help desk right through to consulting for government, all of his experience has been about using technology to solve problems for people.

Bruce Cullen

Director of Products @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.

Stoyan Chalakov

Microsoft MVP and Senior IT Consultant

Stoyan is a Microsoft MVP and works as a Senior IT Consultant at POHN IT-Consulting, a Swiss IT consulting company, where he is responsible for the Cloud and Datacenter Management technologies. His focus lies on private and hybrid Cloud management, involving number of technologies like Microsoft System Center, Hyper-V, Office 365, Microsoft Azure and covering topics like Datacenter monitoring, IT service management, orchestration and automation. Stoyan started his career as Support Engineer for the server platform team at the Microsoft Professional Support, supporting customers from the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region. As part of the Microsoft Support he was also involved in providing the highest level technical support to Microsoft Premier customers. In addition to Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter, Stoyan has an expertise in Microsoft Active Directory and the related technologies.

Vincent de Vries

Chief Innovation Officer @ OpsLogix

Vincent started as an infrastructure consultant over 20 years ago, focusing on Active Directory and Exchange in large corporate environments. Having had a keen interest in programming, he started developing custom tools for Exchange reporting and migrations. In the last ten years, his activities have shifted towards developing custom interfaces in C#, authoring Management Packs, and consulting on System Center Operations Manager. Currently, he spends most of his time authoring management packs and creating solutions in Microsoft Azure.