Rainer started his professional career as a Research Engineer with Ericsson. At Ericsson he worked in the areas mobile communication, broadband networks and Audio/Video technologies for the purpose of telework and remote teaching and learning. In his research Rainer investigated how people can effectively communicate and collaborate across the world in different disciplines, such as Engineering, Higher Education and Medical, using video conference applications and computer aided Multimedia technologies and tools. His vision of the Internet was that of a magic cloud that would connect all people and devices regardless of location and network. The key components of this Internet Cloud are a fast broadband transport, effectively designed applications that deliver Multimedia functionality as well as special purpose technologies such as compression and transparent roaming, a protocol stack that can bind applications together providing the glue and a pervasive security technology that protects data and applications at rest and in transit.
With his 20+ years of experience in telecommunication systems, data and storage network technologies, Rainer had the opportunity to work with cross-functional engineering teams across Europe, Northern America and Asia to design, develop and implement mission-critical communication infrastructure technology. During the past 10 years of his career his main focus was on storage and data network security. With people moving in and out of the network and a workforce that is becoming increasingly mobile the traditional perimeter based network security approach is no longer a viable solution. The focus of his consulting practice is to provide advanced security architectures and implementations for a new and rapid changing network world with Open Source, Virtualization and Cloud Computing as key driving forces.
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