Traditional monolithic IT organizations and architectures are well established and commonly implemented. With web operations, devops, and the evolution of large scale distributed computing, strategies tend to lean horizontal. We will explore monolith and horizontally scaled IT strategies, comparing the different types of organizations that use them, and the elements that make them successful.

Warner Moore is a technology and information security leader who is passionate about technology innovation and entrepreneurship having worked with technology focused businesses nearly his entire career. When not scaling technology and teams at CoverMyMeds, he contributes back to the community by organizing Ohio LinuxFest and DevOpsDays Ohio. Additionally, he is co-founder of the LOPSA Columbus chapter and chairs the Leadership Committee.