Trent R. Hein is co-founder and co-CEO of AppliedTrust, which he launched in 2001 with Ned McClain. In 2015, AppliedTrust was acquired by ViaWest (a Shaw Communications [NYSE:SJR] Company).
Trent is best known as co-author of the best-selling Unix System Administration Handbook and Linux Administration Handbook. With a more than 25-year history, Unix System Administration Handbook has been translated into at least 16 languages and is recognized around the world as the "bible" of Unix system administration. Trent has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the USENIX Association for his work as a developer with the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG). Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of XOR, Inc., which grew to annual revenue in excess of $50 million with more than 550 employees nationwide.
A Boettcher Scholar, Trent holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, which in 2004 awarded him the Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, one of the most prestigious honors given by the University. Trent served on the Board of Directors of the Humane Society of Boulder Valley for seven years, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA). He also curates the DevOps Boulder meetup.
Trent is always an avid promoter of the Boulder lifestyle and loves to hike, ski, fly fish, and camp. When he’s not outdoors or in front of a keyboard, he also enjoys cooking, wine, bluegrass, and hobby electronics/home automation projects.
Contributions
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| Technology of the 2012 Election: Web Infrastructure | As the 2012 Presidential Election heats up, a lot of money and effort is being put into technology infrastructure. I thought it would be fun to do a quick survey of what technology various organizations, on both sides of the aisle, are using so far this campaign season. I spent a few minutes fingerprinting the web content management system (CMS) and web servers currently in use by the top PACs, SuperPACs, and active candidates. As you can see in these graphs, 1) Apache is the dominant web server and 2) more than half of the organizations are still using custom CMS platforms (boo!!). | 01/21/2012 - 21:12 | Blog Post | |
| Make 2012 the year of DevOps! | 01/01/2012 - 16:05 | Blog Post | ||
| Best Practices for SCADA Environment Monitoring | 11/20/2011 - 20:28 | Blog Post | ||
| Save the Date: 9-10-11 | We’re just about to celebrate 10 years of infrastructure-, security-, and opensource-lovin’ fun at AppliedTrust! Please save the date of September 10, 2011 (9-10-11) to join us as we celebrate our 10th anniversary starting at 5:30pm at the historic Boulder Theater. | 07/01/2011 - 12:40 | Blog Post | |
| Epic FAIL by Sony: Infosec as a red-headed stepchild | 05/01/2011 - 17:39 | Blog Post | ||
| Join us for a Safari webcast... | Join us Tuesday, Feb 22 11:00 AM MST/1:00 PM EST as Trent and Ned discuss cloud computing's impact on system administrators. Hosted by Safari and moderated by sysadmin extraordinaire Rob Kolstad, this will be a wild hour of system administration fun! | 02/14/2011 - 16:47 | Blog Post | |
| IPocalypse now. IANA ends allocation of IPv4! | This morning, Ned, Paul, and I watched the live video stream from the Number Resource Organization (NRO) as the last 5 IPv4 blocks were allocated to regional registries (AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE). This is the dawn of the IPocalypse (as predicted) and will radically change our IT world from here forwar | 02/03/2011 - 08:25 | Blog Post | |
| IPocalypse and more.. IT Predictions for 2011 | Happy New Year, folks! It's that time of year again, and as is tradition, it's a great time to preflect on coming year. First, though, don't forget my End of Year IT Checklist and resolve to schedule Annual Preventative Maintenance (for the record, no one wrote in for T-Shirts last year :cry: ). | 01/01/2011 - 00:01 | Blog Post | |
| Halloween and book-signing spooktacular! | We hope to see your smiling faces at our Halloween and book-signing party tomorrow, October 28th, from 5:30-9:30 pm! Prepare for a delicious gourmet catered meal, tasty cocktails from Boulder's "Bitter Bar," and shoulder rubbing with your favorite AppliedTrust engineers. | 10/27/2010 - 13:42 | Blog Post | |
| Slow network performance for Windows Server 2008 guest on vmware ESXi 4.1 | TCP header, Lego (tm) style | 07/28/2010 - 20:40 | Blog Post |
