This presentation will highlight the major features delivered in Red Hat Enterprise Linux update releases, including 5.3, 5.4, and 4.8. Tim Burke, Red Hat's senior director of Red Hat Enterprise Linux engineering, will give an overview of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product lifecycle, highlight the product's major features, and share a glimpse into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4.
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| What's New | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
While virtualization offers many benefits to users, it also poses new management challenges. In order to reduce these challenges and virtualization complexity, it is necessary to better automate both physical and virtual deployments and change how provisioning configurations are managed.
The latest Red Hat Satellite Server contains an embedded version of the Cobbler install server for advanced deployment features. Cobbler, a next-generation installation server that abstracts out the differences between physical and virtual installations, allows for rapid setup of Linux deployments for physical and virtual systems.
In this presentation, Red Hat Satellite Server and Cobbler engineers will discuss deploying Linux systems using the newest version of Red Hat Satellite. Attendees will learn about new features available in Red Hat Satellite, an intuitive open source systems management platform, for physical and virtual machines.
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| What's New | Manage & Secure | Wednesday, September 2 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Red Hat's Thomas Cameron and Lon Hohberger will expand upon their presentation “Cluster Failover for any Application – Demonstration: A High Availability Cluster Installation,” which was given at last year's Red Hat Summit. At this year's presentation, Cameron and Hohberger will discuss the theory and best practice of clustering virtual machines and applications with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In addition Cameron and Hohberger will demonstrate the installation and configuration of a high-availability cluster of virtual machines using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform. They will give a live demonstration of Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite functionality, and the Conga web-based cluster management tool. The demonstrations will include:
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| What's New | Virtualize | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
Video lovers of the world unite. Leah Belsky, Director of Strategic Accounts & Assoc. General Counsel of Kaltura, will present the world's first full open source video solution stack (used by Wikipedia and 35,000 other publishers), and demo several self-hosted video applications. She'll walk through technicalities of setting up an online video platform, discuss pros and cons of self-hosted versus SaaS, and even dive into some code.
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| What's New | Optimize | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
Virtualization is typically used for virtualizing small workloads such as development and test machines. Mission critical or enterprise class workloads are seldom virtualized due to limitations with the traditional virtualization solutions. In this session John Shakshober (Shak), Red Hat senior consulting engineer, and Vijay Trehan, a Red Hat solutions architect, will discuss the scalability features of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform allowing customers to deploy even the largest mission critical workloads without sacrificing performance.
This session will cover the performance and scaling of Enterprise Applications in a Red Hat Enterprise virtualization environment. Shak and Trehan will also cover:
Shak and Trehan will also cover the performance characteristics of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with the Linux/KVM hypervisor and demonstrate how enterprises can virtualize even their most I/O intensive workloads, such as databases and ERP systems. This session will cover performance tuning, best practices and competitive positioning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization technology. Shak and Trehan will also cover:
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| What's New | Virtualize | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
There are a wide variety of technologies, value propositions, and strategies for taking advantage of cloud computing. Red Hat Enterprise MRG provides a powerful and flexible platform for building a variety of internal and hybrid cloud solutions and for leveraging external clouds. MRG provides the capability to provision dynamic capacity at Amazon EC2, send work to EC2, retrieve results, and then tear down EC2 resources when finished—all from the same interface that executes local workloads and applications.
This presentation will provide an overview of MRG's cloud computing capabilities. Red Hat's Bryan Che, Mike Santangelo, and Chad Tindel will describe how to build internal and hybrid clouds and how to leverage external computing clouds with Red Hat Enterprise MRG. They will also detail solutions and techniques for clouds, provide a roadmap of upcoming cloud-related features in MRG, and present a customer use case focused on building clouds.
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| What's New | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
A new generation of data analytics tools will be needed to handle petabytes of cloud data. This Birds of a Feather discussion will highlight open source software projects for cloud computing and data analytics, including Apache Hadoop. Hadoop is built on the MapReduce algorithm invented by Google for large-scale, reliable, inexpensive analytics. Tom Plunkett, a cloud computing architect at Serene Software, will discuss the criteria for determining whether a domain problem is suitable to be solved using this technology and/or alternatives. Example use cases include Event Detection, Fraud Analysis, Relationship Maps, Relevance Ranking, Trend Analysis, Unstructured Data Analysis, and Video/Imagery Analysis.
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| What's New | Wednesday, September 2 | 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM |
This two-hour presentation, which is divided into two segments, will explore the system performance analysis and tuning necessary to maximize the performance of systems running RHEL5, RHEL4, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.
This presentation from Doug Shakshober, a Red Hat senior consulting engineer, will focus on large systems (e.g., the latest x86 hardware platforms, quad/hex cores, >100GB memory, 10 Gb Ethernet) that run the most common applications (e.g., database servers, Internet servers, and various financial applications).
The two-hour presentation will:
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| What's New | Optimize | Thursday, September 3 | 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM |
This two-hour presentation, which is divided into two segments, will explore the system performance analysis and tuning necessary to maximize the performance of systems running RHEL5, RHEL4, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.
This presentation from Doug Shakshober, a Red Hat senior consulting engineer, will focus on large systems (e.g., the latest x86 hardware platforms, quad/hex cores, >100GB memory, 10 Gb Ethernet) that run the most common applications (e.g., database servers, Internet servers, and various financial applications).
The two-hour presentation will:
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| What's New | Optimize | Thursday, September 3 | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM |
Red Hat Enterprise MRG is an open source messaging system based on Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMPQ), an open standard for enterprise messaging. Red Hat Enterprise MRG allows users to write applications for simple, high-speed messaging in multiple languages (Java JMS, C++, Python, Ruby) and it allows users to run the applications on multiple platforms (Linux, Unix, Macintosh, or Windows). Red Hat Enterprise MRG provides guaranteed delivery, speed, and security.
This presentation serves as a programmer's overview of Red Hat Enterprise MRG and is designed to teach programmers what they need to know to get started writing messaging applications. This presentation will feature:
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| What's New | Deploy | Thursday, September 3 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
While the default configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, with respect to Oracle and Oracle RAC databases, is adequate for performance, adjustments are required as the database grows and more nodes are added to a cluster. Therefore, careful consideration of network, memory, filesystem layout, and kernel settings is necessary when tuning large configurations for maximum database efficiency and performance.
Scott Croft, a Red Hat Linux consultant, will detail these considerations so attendees understand how to maximize database efficiency and performance. He will discuss installation and kickstart configuration, filesystem layout, network configuration (including channel bonding), and kernel adjustments.
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| What's New | Optimize | Thursday, September 3 | 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM |
Running multiple virtual operating systems on one server creates a range of new security risks. SELinux, when combined with libvirt, allows system administrators to control the isolation of virtual machines with the use of mandatory access control.
In this presentation Walsh will outline the security implications of virtualized environments and effective methods to deal with them.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| What's New | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM |
Linux grew from 10,000 lines of code in 1991 to 204 million lines of code in 2008. Similarly Wikipedia, which was launched in 2001, has rapidly grown to become one of the world's most popular websites, with over 10 million entries in 275 languages. The open source model of collaborative innovation is leading to some of the largest collaborations in the world.
In this presentation Melanie Chernoff, public policy manager of corporate affairs at Red Hat, will explore the underlying factors driving collaborative innovation. Chernoff will focus on how these factors can be applied to solving the challenges in education, e-government, medical research, and other areas.
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| What's New | Strategize | Friday, September 4 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
Accessing a remote display of a virtual machine (VM) is not always a satisfying experience. Connecting a VM playing video (mpg, YouTube etc.) using existing solutions like VNC or RDP might be frustrating. This process is not only slow and far away from native performance, but it also requires high CPU and bandwidth consumption.
SPICE is a complete new open source solution for efficient remote display access. SPICE was born because VM users deserve a better solution. The goals of SPICE were to create a user experience as close as possible to a physical machine, which includes offering high quality video (and audio), for both LAN and WAN connections, without compromising the density on the host running the VMs.
In this presentation Arnon Gilboa, a Red Hat software developer from the SPICE team, will present SPICE's overall architecture, its key features and compare it with other available solutions.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| What's New | Optimize | Friday, September 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |