Lynne Chamberlain
CEO, SUSE Rancher Government Solutions
When open-source software giant SUSE purchased the Silicon Valley Kubernetes management company Rancher Labs in 2020, it turned to industry veteran Lynne Chamberlain to head the federal practice. Chamberlain has held senior positions at Silicon Graphics, NetApp and SGI, and now competes with her old employer Red Hat, where she was vice president of business development and programs, as well as VMware in the rapidly growing Kubernetes container management space.
Chamberlain’s mission is to enable Rancher Government Solutions to address the unique security and operational needs of the federal government and U.S. military. Most RGS employees hold clearances across the Defense Department/intelligence community and are currently working with all branches of DOD and many IC agencies, including U.S. Air Force Platform One. Rancher is the only Kubernetes management platform currently in Iron Bank.
Chamberlain said her biggest achievement has been helping to bring Rancher’s transformational technology to the government and military. She attributes much of her success to the GI Bill, which helped put her through college and graduate school, and she is always looking for an opportunity to give back.
“I have had the privilege and honor to work with the defense side of the government business throughout my career,” she said. “I’m also from a military family and understand the sacrifices of our men and woman in uniform. To help contribute to the success of their mission has been a driving passion of mine for many years.”
Why Watch
The success of RGS will depend on how it competes with industry heavyweights Red Hat and VMware, who offer a more proprietary full stack approach when compared to Rancher’s Open-Source, interoperable and vendor agnostic platform. According to Chamberlain, “Rancher is the easy button.”
Under Chamberlain, the RGS team will be laser focused on helping the government and military run Kubernetes everywhere from the data center to the cloud and out to the tactical edge.