Chip Shabazian, Bank of America's vice president of systems engineering, will detail the tips and tricks that his team learned while developing a global Kickstart infrastructure for thousands of distributed builds. Shabazian will focus primarily on using Kickstart, an automated method to build servers that utilize the Anaconda tools for system builds. This discussion of lessons learned will be valuable for anyone Kickstarting any deployment—from a large global deployment to a single server deployment.
Shabazian will also provide information about other technologies in development.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Traditional system administrators are often stereotyped as anti-social hardware managers who execute repetitive tasks to maintain an availability of applications from which they are completely disconnected. This presentation seeks to break this stereotype by offering advice for adjusting the thinking and methodologies of system administrators and IT teams.
Michael Stahnke of Caterpillar's UNIX/Linux team will cover how applied software development practices in conjunction with system administration practices can be used to construct a high-performing team. He will address the following concepts:
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| Red Hat in Reality | Manage & Secure | Wednesday, September 2 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
This presentation serves as a follow-up to last year's "Implementing Grid-Enabled Services Infrastructure (GESI) with Red Hat, JBoss, and MetaMatrix" presentation. This year's topic takes a step forward into the realm of data center as a service. It will focus on deploying open source management technologies like Cobbler and Koan, Spacewalk and RHN Satellite Server in combination with JBoss middleware technologies.
Christopher Dale, a moderator at inCommon, will discuss how to effectively deploy a services-based data center from a central repository of predefined foundation components. With selected use cases, Dale will demonstrate the core technologies that enable the next generation grid-backed, service-centric data center.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
The Defense Information Systems Agency established the Forge.mil project to enable the rapid development, testing, certification, deployment, operation, and acceptance of new products and services on the Global Information Grid (GIG). Breaking with traditional systems development approaches, Forge.mil will employ the principles of net-centricity (e.g., collaboration, information sharing, shared situational awareness, self-synchronization) to the Department of Defense (DoD) IT acquisition arena.
SoftwareForge, the collaborative development and reuse of open source and DoD community source software, promotes early and continuous collaboration among developers, material providers, testers, operators, and users throughout the development life-cycle. SoftwareForge provides the development community with application life-cycle management and collaboration tools.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
In 2006 Red Hat Enterprise Linux was selected to become the Hilti Corporation's strategic operating system. This decision was reached mainly because of Red Hat's strong focus on enterprise systems, the matured Red Hat Global File System (GFS), and Red Hat's high-availability cluster framework.
Michael Hagmann, head of enterprise server technology at Hilti Corporation, will discuss the company's migration from HP Tru64 Unix on Alpha Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on standard servers. Hagmann will discuss the company's migration process from the decision-making to the successful implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Throughout this discussion, Hagmann will highlight the technology and strategic challenges that his team faced, and the steps that were taken to overcome those challenges.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
The current administration talks the talk in terms of its adoption of new technology solutions, access to information, and the call for transparency and increased citizen participation. But can it walk the walk? Gunnar Hellekson, a lead architect for Red Hat Government, will lead a discussion that addresses how open source advocates can help the Federal Government unlock the innovative potential of the open source development model. The session will also highlight new initiatives to bring government and community together to create a technology infrastructure that will increase the government’s responsiveness to its citizens.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Wednesday, September 2 | 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM |
Rivet Logic, a consulting and systems integration firm that helps organizations better engage with customers, recently delivered a next generation application on Facebook using:
This presentation will detail the delivery of this cost-effective solution, which was quick to integrate, easy to use, and robust enough to handle a 24x7 application.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Catalyst | Thursday, September 3 | 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM |
The Census Bureau manages a network of nine Research Data Centers (RDC) around the United States. The Research Data Centers are secure Census Bureau facilities where users on approved projects access specific, project-related information. Therefore user and group controls are critical to the operation.
The previous RDC Network computing model had essentially one server per RDC, with additional servers for specific projects and Census Bureau staff. There were two main problems with this method: 1) Census Bureau staff needed to manage users and applications across all of these different servers; and 2) some RDCs are busier than others and have different use patterns, especially across different time zones. If one RDC, and hence the RDC's server, was busy, there was no way to move users to less busy servers. Therefore there was much redundancy under this model.
Clustering six IBM blade servers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with LDAP solves these problems by allowing users to move to underutilized nodes of the cluster trivially and by greatly simplifying management of the RDC Network. Census Bureau staff no longer have to manage 15 different accounts (just for the RDC Network) or log into the correct server to fix a user problem. The blade cluster allows for incremental expansion of the computing power of the RDC network to accommodate an increased (but unknown) number of users with a minimal amount of effort on the part of Census Bureau staff.
In this presentation Lynn Riggs, senior economist at the US Bureau of the Census, will discuss both the benefits (e.g., management, performance, ease of transition) and the challenges (e.g., removing residual processes and files, correctly transferring user settings and permissions) of clustering IBM blade servers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Riggs will also highlight the Bureau's plans to potentially open five new RDCs over the next two years.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM |
Many system administrators sigh in frustration when the installation instructions for third party software alerts them to execute install scripts. If they do not use RPM packages to install software, they lose many of the benefits that RPMs provide. For example there is no easy, one-stop place to find everything that is installed on the system, there is no ability to quickly and easily see what has been changed on the system, software interdependency issues become more likely, and it is often more difficult to automate software deployment, especially during kickstarts. Therefore, it takes more system administrator time and effort to install and manage unpackaged software.
Presentation attendees will learn how to eliminate all of these problems and more by turning third party software installs, even binary-only installs, into RPM packages. The presenter, Motorola's Linux technical lead Paul Waterman, will provide real-world examples from his experience turning IBM Rational ClearCase, a complicated product with kernel dependencies, into RPM packages.
Specifically, Waterman will:
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| Red Hat in Reality | Deploy | Thursday, September 3 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Defense and intelligence communities face a constant barrage of inventive attacks against computer and communications equipment and networks. Given the pace and diversity of these attacks, it is critical that companies leverage agile, open technologies to rapidly build and deploy the latest generation of security solutions. Similarly, defense and intelligence agencies deal with unique security challenges - in mission-driven and fast-paced environments - where it is imperative to have advanced systems in place for information assurance and data integrity. By leveraging the right technologies, often customized to meet varying agency needs, organizations can solve the most sensitive security missions through agile security.
The combination of Tresys Technology's security expertise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled a solution that was created from initial requirements to working prototype in less than 10 days, and from requirements to field-ready in 90 days. This approach validates the advantages of integrating strong government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) security on an open source platform.
In this presentation Tresys Technology's senior security engineer, Spencer Shimko, will detail how the combination of open source tools and industry-leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled Tresys Technology's rapid response to the recent "dirty device" security threat.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM |
By applying concepts of a Knowledge Management System (KMS) to the intranet, an effective knowledge base for users can be created. On the other hand, inadequate management of documentation produces an office environment in which users are unable to obtain pertinent information in a timely and effective manner. This presentation will outline the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and MediaWiki as the foundation for an efficient and cost effective KMS.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM |
Many customers have been managing large numbers of distributed Linux® x86 systems running SAP modules. By reducing the total number of server footprints, customers can achieve savings in operational costs. Learn how, through consolidation projects on IBM Power Systems™, a smaller number of servers can support the entire SAP environment, reducing the organizations' operational costs for power/cooling and systems management, while providing more scalability to the SAP applications – and ensuring high levels of availability for end-users.
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| Red Hat in Reality | Manage & Secure | Friday, September 4 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
As the IT environment moves to a utility computing model, workload automation becomes vital to the success of these models. When workloads increase and more capacity needs to be provisioned, you need tools that can help you deploy, control, monitor and manage your solutions in automated ways.
In this interactive presentation, Red Hat UK's Graham Gear, senior solution architect, will demonstrate how Red Hat Satellite combined with JBoss Operations Network can help meet this need quickly and efficiently. This demonstration will include:
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| Red Hat in Reality | Manage & Secure | Friday, September 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |