Mr. Noah Broadwater

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  Noah Broadwater, Sesame Street
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  Noah Broadwater VP for Information Services Sesame Workshop

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  Noah Broadwater, Vice President of Information Services at Sesame Workshop, will be one of the featured keynote speakers at the first LinuxCon event on September 21-23, 2009 - Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, OR. We recently talked with Noah to find out a little bit more about his organization's use of Linux and how it solved Sesame Workshop's problems as easy as 1, 2, 3.
  
  Linux Foundation: Can you describe the IT environment of the Sesame Workshop?
  
  Noah Broadwater: A Sesame Workshop has two Data Centers with one co-located with approximately 60 physical servers between the two.
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  Broadwater: Our IT environment is responsible for all IT/IS operations from Line of Business Applications, Databases, File/Print Systems, Directory Management, Intranet, Extranet, Public Websites, Production editing environments, Video fulfillment, Digital Distribution, Asset Management, etc.
  
  LF: What unique challenges and advantages, besides Muppets, does the Workshop have?
  
  Broadwater: Sesame Workshop has 40 years worth of digital media over 20 programs (Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Pinky Dinky Doo, Sagwa, Dragon Tales, 321 Contact, etc.) distributed to over 120 countries with 32 countries having unique versions of Sesame Street tailored to their culture and educational needs. Sesame deals with over 1,000 international partners. All of this while being a non-profit organization.
  
  LF: How did Sesame's migration affect IT interfaces with your organization's many partners? Or was there no effect?
  
  Broadwater: Our migrations were almost completely transparent. The only real change was we were able to integrate accounts into eDirectory, where we hadn't before on Linux. As for Virtuals, nobody noticed.
  
  LF: When dealing with asset management, what was the biggest challenge you had to face?
  
  Broadwater: A mobile workforce that traveled for long periods of time both internationally and off site for producing our shows.
  
  LF: Was the implementation of the ZENworks Asset Management system transparent to customers? Suppliers?
  
  Broadwater: It was not transparent to users, but in a positive way. The previous system would lock up their desktops when running periodic scans. ZAM no longer slowed their machines down in the middle of doing their work.
  
  LF: Can you sketch out how the server migration/consolidation plan was implemented?
  
  Broadwater: We have used Linux since 1997 for developing web projects and as we looked to upgrade applications, we wanted a lower cost than our current Solaris/Sparc implementations.
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  Broadwater: What we found was that some applications were deceptive.
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  Broadwater: Our biggest challenge is managing our digital assets.

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  Listen to our keynote speakers Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager and Noah Broadwater, VP of Information Services at Sesame Workshop, along with Linus Torvalds and a host of other Linux leaders.
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  Keynote: Noah Broadwater

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  "It was evident that virtualization demanded a close look," says Broadwater, who is vice president of information services at New York-based children's media producer Sesame Workshop.
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  Broadwater takes some common-sense defensive steps, such as using firewall controls to limit user access and running a full array of security protocols and checks on each virtual server. In addition, Broadwater says he depends on his virtualization software vendor, Novell Inc., to supply a product that's resistant to intrusions and attacks. He says he worries about "holes in the virtualization software itself -- kernel attacks, someone attacking the host module or one of my guys making a mistake against the host server -- and then making sure that the full virtualization software is actually secure and is patched."
  
  Broadwater says he's confident that his vendor is keeping pace with virtualization threats as they arise.
  
  He feels that beyond technology-driven measures, it's helpful for enterprises to keep details about virtual environments close to their vests in order to deter unwanted attention. "In a lot of cases, we don't even tell people that they're running on a virtual box or that they're actually accessing a virtual box," Broadwater says.

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  "Novell ZENworks Asset Management is a good fit for us because it works across multiple platforms including Linux, UNIX*, Windows and Macintosh*," said Noah Broadwater, vice president of Information Services at Sesame Workshop.
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  "Instead of paying for proprietary hardware with UNIX, we can now get competitive pricing from all the major hardware vendors," Broadwater said.

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  Noah Broadwater, the vice president of information services at Sesame Workshop (the production company behind Sesame Street) is even more hesitant to try a startup software firm.
  
  "We use a lot of open source [software] because it's really cheap. You can dabble in it, and if it doesn't work out well, you haven't lost much money," Broadwater said. "But when you talk about data center management software, if you screw it up or the company goes under, you're data center is at risk."
  
  Broadwater suggests trying out smaller companies on small projects and going with open source providers as methods to offer peace of mind.
  
  "I feel safe going with smaller companies that are using open source," Broadwater said.

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  Noah Broadwater: If you're willing to pay for it, everyone's support looks greaton paper.
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  -- Noah Broadwater, v.p. of information services, Sesame Workshop, New York
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  Today, users like Noah Broadwater, the vice president of information services at New York City-based Sesame Workshop, are content to rely on their subscription alone for mission-critical Linux support.Sesame Workshop has been a Novell Premium customer since 1999 and Broadwater said he has "consistently found their support to be first class from the call center to the onsite engineers."
  
  "Linux support is much better than it was a year ago.It is finally moving into an area where it can go beyond edge services and into the mainstream business applications," he said.
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  Regardless of your approach, Green said IT managers should vet their consultant thoroughly. (see Noah Broadwater's list of support criteria in this article's sidebar)."At the end of the day, the right questions and the right planning are rarely executed well.
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  Noah Broadwater: If you're willing to pay for it, everyone's support looks greaton paper.
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  -- Noah Broadwater, v.p. of information services, Sesame Workshop, New York
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  Today, users like Noah Broadwater, the vice president of information services at New York City-based Sesame Workshop, are content to rely on their subscription alone for mission-critical Linux support.Sesame Workshop has been a Novell Premium customer since 1999 and Broadwater said he has "consistently found their support to be first class from the call center to the onsite engineers."
  
  "Linux support is much better than it was a year ago.It is finally moving into an area where it can go beyond edge services and into the mainstream business applications," he said.
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  Regardless of your approach, Green said IT managers should vet their consultant thoroughly. (see Noah Broadwater's list of support criteria in this article's sidebar)."At the end of the day, the right questions and the right planning are rarely executed well.

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  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 9/26/2009  

  Alfresco's Matt Asay had a stellar panel debating the real costs of Open Source, Intel's Dirk Hohndel provided details of the exciting Moblin project; and Noah Broadwater, VP Information Services, Sesame Workshop gave great details about how Sesame deployed SUSE Linux.

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  said Noah Broadwater, vice president of Information Services at Sesame Workshop.
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  competitive pricing from all the major hardware vendors," Broadwater said.

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  Noah Broadwater
  
  As the Vice President for Information Services at Sesame Workshop, Mr. Broadwater determines the strategic technology direction for the company and advises on technology related programs. Mr. Broadwater is a strong advocate for Identity Management and Open Source Technologies. He has been featured in CIO magazine, ComputerWorld, TechTarget, and CNET for his work in both the importance of Identity Controls, Open Source, and Virtualization. Prior to Sesame Workshop, Mr. Broadwater consulted for several Fortune 500 companies in Identity Management and Directories for handling mergers and acquisitions. Noah has spoken at numerous colleges and universities about the use of technology in business and has been quoted frequently in technology and business publications.

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