The exodus of customers leaving legacy infrastructures behind to adopt Linux on industry standard servers with scalable low-cost virtualization is easy to see. Less obvious are the motivations of this migration. This session examines this theme from the vantage point of a long-standing contributor to open source communities, industry observer, and HP technology leader.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Virtualize | Wednesday, September 2 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Open source continues to grow, saving enterprises money and driving innovation, but it is not growing under the control and guidance of a single provider – in the way that classic proprietary software vendors operate. This session will explore how enterprises and Red Hat contribute to the health and governance of the open source ecosystem by shepherding resources around successful open source projects.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Red Hat's engineering development model is focused on delivering sustained, ongoing value to its customers. This value consists of balancing today's needs of performance and stability with tomorrow's needs of technical feature innovation. Putting customer needs first has dramatically influenced how Red Hat interacts with the broader open source development community, as well as how Red Hat internally structures its product releases.
This presentation will describe Red Hat's development model and explain how this powerful engine drives technical innovation in balance with customer centric enterprise value. Attendees will learn about the customer driven value methodology in Red Hat's development model and why it yields the most robust enterprise Linux offering.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
As organizations plan for future infrastructure requirements and ways to save energy, they increasingly look to virtualization as one of the cornerstone technologies. Consolidation and virtualization are key initiatives for reducing costs in the data center. Virtualized, automated systems not only reduce costs, they also provide the server, storage and application flexibility required to improve service in a dynamic infrastructure. Over 40 years, IBM has developed unique capabilities – and the skills and experience that combine to provide the best solutions for our clients. As a primary maintainer of KVM, IBM is bringing a history of innovation in virtualization technology and implementation to the open source community.
This presentation will cover IBM's strategy for helping clients build a Dynamic Infrastructure, and will highlight the strategic role of KVM in IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure vision. Come and learn what IBM is bringing to KVM and why we think KVM can bring value to businesses through Dynamic Infrastructure.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Virtualize | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
Red Hat's commitment to open source is about more than just the products, solutions, and services it delivers. It's also about the ways that the company engages community to come together and solve common problems. Red Hat does this in a number of ways, including participating in individual software projects called the upstream, and also by sponsoring and contributing to the Fedora Project. These engagements are central to Red Hat's mission, and key to the trust relationship it has with its customers and partners.
Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields will provide an overview of the development and release models of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the win-win benefits of this process to customers and community alike. Frields will include examples of how contributions have influenced new Red Hat Enterprise Linux features. He will also make the case that focusing on contribution produces a sustainable model for growth and innovation in open source technologies.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Security, compliance, and auditing requirements can be daunting and frustrating for many organizations. This discussion will explore the compliance requirements faced by companies today and the utilization of Best Practices leveraging Red Hat Management Solutions to comply with PCI and other compliance requirements. Come join both Red Hat experts and fellow Red Hat customers to hear how they have overcome the compliance challenges in their organizations.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Wednesday, September 2 | 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM |
Virtualization has the promise of making IT environments more adaptive to change and business requirements. As virtualization is becoming mainstream technology, many IT departments and architects are expanding their interest into cloud computing and focusing on how it might influence their data center architecture.
With Red Hat virtualization technology, customers are able to manage their data centers in new, advanced ways. Thus new opportunities for deployment, consolidation, and provisioning that go beyond the traditional IT processes, are being implemented.
As cloud computing continues to demand attention, Red Hat is actively developing open source cloud infrastructure software as part of the oVirt project. The project's goal is to provide a cloud infrastructure software stack that allows a customer or partner to easily create and implement their own internal or external cloud deployment. In addition to the infrastructure software, this project aims to provide a “Cloud Starter Kit,” blueprint, and architecture documents.
This presentation will cover the current state of Red Hat's cloud efforts and provide technical information that details how to build a cloud infrastructure based on Red Hat's technologies and blueprints. The presentation will also provide an overview of the capabilities and features Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization provides and how virtualization can be used as an enterprise management platform.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Optimize | Thursday, September 3 | 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM |
Applying security updates in a timely and secure manner is a necessity at many organizations. Red Hat provides such updates, which keep systems as secure as possible, via Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA). Every RHSA goes through a number of steps, from its inception to release, and contains a wealth of information for administrators to consume.
This presentation will explore:
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM |
While green IT is pursued for a number of reasons (eco-responsibility, CAPEX/OPEX, facility constraints, etc.), a green IT strategy often has unforeseen benefits (increased manageability, security, business continuity, etc.).
This presentation will explore how Red Hat has and continues to contribute to the green IT movement. While there are many ways of going green, Chris Runge, a director of solutions architects at Red Hat, will discuss four of them:
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
This session will cover Microsoft's inconsistent course on patents and FOSS
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM |
Many open source developers and technology companies are concerned that software patents inhibit innovation and increase business risks. This session will help developers and business leaders understand the baseline issues of software patenting and will highlight important recent developments that affect the open source software community.
Topics will include the changing landscape for software patents, the Bilski case now pending before the Supreme Court, open source community defense measures, reform efforts, and recent case law developments.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM |
The increased mobility of the modern workforce enables unprecedented levels of business agility and flexibility. This new found agility, however, introduces new challenges that threaten the very existence of today's enterprises. Insecure endpoints or stolen laptops can lead to the loss or compromise of both confidential and personal information. This, in turn, can result in lost competitive advantages as well as class-action law suits.
This session focuses on the use of desktop virtualization technology as a way to centralize sensitive information in your data center, as opposed to having it reside on your organization's laptops and desktops. This dramatically increases the security of this sensitive information, and allows you to meet many of today's demanding compliance regulations. Specifically, we will examine how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Desktops will provide this security while at the same time delivering an end user experience that is indistinguishable from that of a physical desktop.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Virtualize | Friday, September 4 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
Although there have been few patent lawsuits against open source software, many in the open source community have concerns about the assertion of overly broad and obvious patents by patent trolls (entities that obtain and enforce patents while having no real business of their own) and others. Fortunately, the patent laws provide mechanisms for challenging and invalidating a patent when it covers technology that was not new and non-obvious over work that was previously done by others - the so-called "prior art." This session will provide interested persons, including technical managers and engineers, with the background that they need to be able to assist in the process of challenging such patents. Specifically, this session will explain how to read a patent and how to identify prior art useful in challenging a particular patent's validity. This session will also discuss the Linux Defender program, which has invited the public to put this information to use by providing a forum in which people can submit prior art and discuss its relevance to challenging the validity of patents of interest to the open source community.
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| Open Source for IT Leaders | Strategize | Friday, September 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |