The world is smaller, flatter and smarter. Join the IBM Cloud leadership team to learn more about what IBM is doing to address IT pain points through accelerated adoption of Cloud Computing environments. Learn how IBM is creating new consumption and delivery models to drive new sourcing options and business flexibility, with new choices to deploy workloads that matter to enterprises with greater efficiency, productivity and control, especially those running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.
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| What's Next | Manage & Secure | Wednesday, September 2 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Storage provisioning is a cumbersome, time consuming and complex procedure in an environment of thousands of servers and tens of storage arrays.
Through standard protocols like iSCSI and iSNS, storage management can be highly simplified by creating a plug-and-play environment for iSCSI SANs.
This presentation seeks to help attendees understand simpler, faster ways to achieve storage LUN/volume provisioning through a single management console.
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| What's Next | Manage & Secure | Wednesday, September 2 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
In this session, Navin Thadani will introduce the Red Hat Enterprise virtualization platform. Thadani will cover everything from the high-level product architecture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and Red Hat's new Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization hypervisor to the rich Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization management platform with features such as high availability, live migration, clustering, image management and system scheduler. He will also outline Red Hat's roadmap for virtualization over the next 12 to 18 months.
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| What's Next | Virtualize | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
Being comfortable with virtualization on x86 platforms, you're looking to reduce as much cost as possible and consolidate a large number of systems onto as few, modern servers as your performance requirements permit. This session will try to answer, using the work completed by HP engineers as part of the HP ProLiant DL 785 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and KVM Virtualization Reference Architecture, some of the questions that you may have regarding how to optimally configure your system.
Thomas Sjolshagen, Linux Product Marketing Manager at HP will share tips and tricks that you can benefit from when tuning, managing and configuring an environment. Sjolshagen will also address the following questions:
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| What's Next | Virtualize | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
Red Hat launched the first version of Red Hat Enterprise MRG at last year's Red Hat Summit. Since then MRG has achieved rapid success with Red Hat's largest customers and gained exciting new capabilities. This presentation will detail some of these advances, which include:
In addition to highlighting the many capabilities and successes of Red Hat Enterprise MRG, this presentation will also include a roadmap of Red Hat Enterprise MRG's upcoming features.
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| What's Next | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
Cisco's Unified Computing System was developed to address critical data center challenges by integrating network, compute, virtualization and storage access into one cohesive system while simplifying the management. This presentation will provide an overview of the Unified Computing System and highlight the key elements and innovations including:
In this discussion, Joe Vaccaro, Product Manager for UCS at Cisco, will discuss these details and their benefits in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
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| What's Next | Manage & Secure | Wednesday, September 2 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Business-driven IT. What does that mean? It means making sure that IT initiatives support business processes with miminal downtime, that your infrastructure capital is invested prudently and effectively, it means you met sustainability objectives, and provide meaniful, contextual data transparency in order to measure your success and alignment with organizational goals. SAP has transformed the way businesses manage their Enterprise, Supply Chains, Product lifecycles and Customer relationships - let us show you what we can do for IT. Gain insight into how SAP customers are transforming traditional IT into a Best Run Business.
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| What's Next | Wednesday, September 2 | 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM |
The time-tested file systems available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux address a wide range of storage requirements. However file systems such as ext2 and ext3 are beginning to show their age as storage capacities continue to outstrip Moore's Law and outpace access time and interface bandwidth improvements.
This presentation will begin with a discussion about the state of the file systems that are currently available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. David Egts, a Red Hat principal solutions architect, will also highlight the expected storage challenges and detail the advancing file systems (e.g., ext4 and Btrfs) that are being developed to address these challenges.
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| What's Next | Optimize | Thursday, September 3 | 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM |
IBM's project 'Big Green' continues to spur a global shift to Linux on the Mainframe. Bill Reeder will present the latest view of how IBM has consolidated and virtualized thousands of server images onto the IBM System z®. IBM's 'Big Green' project has recognized substantial savings in energy, software and systems support costs. This is an opportunity to learn the latest information on IBM's Enterprise Computing Model and how it relates to Linux® on the mainframe.
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| What's Next | Optimize | Thursday, September 3 | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM |
Cloud technologies have been getting a lot of attention lately. Despite their almost irresistible advantages, vendor lock-in has been a hard pill for PHP developers to swallow. In this presentation Wil Sinclair of Zend will focus on how these services can be generalized and accessed via a common interface to make your PHP applications portable in the cloud.
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| What's Next | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been shipping with integrated virtualization capabilities for over two years and many customers have successfully deployed it for various workloads and use cases. With Red Hat Enterprise virtualization, customers can now deploy virtualized infrastructure solutions that cover the server as well as the client (VDI) use case.
With its latest products, Red Hat offers a very compelling architecture for true enterprise virtualization. Red Hat virtualization technology can be used for a wide range of solutions, and helps the customer implement a more agile and adaptable infrastructure.
This presentation will include use cases and case studies that detail deployment stories from a range of different customers (from those servicing anywhere from twenty to thousands of servers). Attendees will gain insight into how customers have used virtualization to solve obvious challenges (e.g., consolidation, multi-os, deployments, etc.) and how they have used virtualization for innovative deployments (hardware independence, dynamic resource assignment, flexible disaster recovery, on-demand infrastructure deployments, etc.). Detailed architecture overviews and implementations will be shared.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| What's Next | Virtualize | Thursday, September 3 | 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM |
The Red Hat certification team held its first Red Hat Summit focus group for RHCEs (Red Hat Certified Engineers) last year. This year the popular focus group will be extended to RHCTs (Red Hat Certified Technicians).
This focus group will give attendees the opportunity to provide guidance on trends and practices so that Red Hat can keep its certification program valuable and relevant. In addition this focus group, which is exclusively for RHCEs and RHCTs, provides an opportunity for the certification team to meet with Red Hat's certified community to discuss its plans and directions.
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| What's Next | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM |
More and more programmers have removed themselves from the underlying hardware over the years, which results in code where the performance gap to the true potential of the hardware is increasing.
In this presentation, Ulrich Drepper, consulting engineer at Red Hat, will discuss performance problems, explain how to get some of the performance back for existing code, and describe how to write code without too much hassle and without too many knowledge requirements on the side of the application developer.
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| What's Next | Optimize | Friday, September 4 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
Bhavna Sarathy, AMD's ISV Technical Lead for Red Hat, and Red Hat's Sanjay Rao will lead a discussion about the six-core AMD Opteron Processor ("Istanbul") HW and SW features, and will discuss how each feature lends itself to superior performance, and scalability. They will also present the SW feature support for Istanbul in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Scaling data will be presented showing impressive performance of the Istanbul platform with a large single Oracle and Sybase database instance, multiple instances on bare metal and multiple database instances running in KVM guests. Data showing CPU / Memory bandwidth of the Istanbul will also be presented. Sarathy will demonstrate the efficiency and different deployment scenarios of the platform.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| What's Next | Optimize | Friday, September 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |