IBM Champion Profile

Contact Details

Arrow Electronics

Tony Owens

Sr. Solutions Architect,
Arrow Electronics

Bio

For over 30 years, Tony Owens has been a noteworthy leader in the storage and IT space.  Tony has worked for years with channel partners here at Arrow  Tony was a former consultant and black hat known by the alias “Chaos.  Now he uses that background to help companies defend themselves using his experience and knowledge from the other side.


Tony early IT days included Mainframe, Unix, Oracle.  He ran a consulting company which specialized in Security, Unix, and Oracle before moving to Atlanta.  Tony has been recognized as an IBM Champion for Storage and Security for his contributions since 2020.

Relationship to IBM

  • Business Partner

Location

United States (Georgia)
Speaking Fee? No

User Group Membership

  • NA Storage User Group, Power Systems User Group Atlanta

Area of Expertise

  • AI
  • Power
  • Quantum
  • Security
  • Storage

Preferred Advocacy Activities

  • Event Speaker
  • Mentoring
  • Sales Support
  • Teaching and Research
  • User Group Volunteer

IBM Products & Technologies

  • AI Infrastructure
  • Ansible
  • IBM Fusion
  • Red Hat OpenShift
  • Storage Ceph​
  • Storage Defender
  • Storage FlashSystem
  • Storage Insights
  • Storage Networking

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