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Cloud with Red Hat: What, Where, and How

Bryan Che — Manager, Product Management, Red Hat

Carl Trieloff — Technical Director, Cloud Engineering, Red Hat

This session will take the term “cloud computing” from an abstract buzzword for a magical do-it-all promise to a practical overview of how to consider implementing various cloud strategies with open source offerings.

In this session, Bryan Che will:

• Cover what Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) capabilities offer for both external and private, internal clouds
• Describe how enterprises are implementing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities today with open source
• Highlight the benefits and challenges of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities
• Present Red Hat’s offerings, architecture, and roadmap for building and using an internal cloud
• Describe how to achieve and take advantage of capabilities, including elasticity, spillover, accounting, planning, quality of service, security, etc., within your organization
• Discuss various architectures and strategies for building internal clouds with Red Hat

Clouds Beyond Technology: Real World Legal and Business Requirements

Mike Ferris — Director, Product Marketing, Red Hat

While technology has enabled the age of cloud computing with on-demand, elastic, self-service capacity, business models and legal requirements are still evolving to address the flexibility that it promises. Both vendors and customers must understand and plan for how new pricing models, distributed computing and data resources, and acquisition models will affect corporate IT policies and the bottom line.

In this session, Michael Ferris will illustrate the actual risks and challenges that Red Hat is addressing while evolving its business and legal models to enable cloud computing. He will discuss operational, legal, and financial models so that audience members will understand how cloud vendors and ISVs are evolving their models, as well as how customers’ operational and accounting models may need to change to address what is already happening within their organizations.

Storing Data on Cloud Infrastructure in a Scalable, Durable Manner

Manik Surtani — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Mircea Markus — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

In this session, Manik Surtani and Mircea Markus, senior software engineer at Red Hat, will discuss:

• The untapped potential cloud computing has to offer the enterprise and the entrepreneur alike
• How data grids are valid solutions for use on public clouds, including Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud, as well as internal, private clouds running on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and similar technologies
• The challenge of data storage on cloud infrastructures
• How Infinispan, a cloud-scale data grid platform, can help solve the issue of data storage on the cloud

How to Build Your Own Cloud with Red Hat

Carl Trieloff — Technical Director, Cloud Engineering, Red Hat

Hugh Brock — Engineering Manager, Red Hat

In this session, Carl Trieloff and Hugh Brock, engineering manager at Red Hat, will:

• Cover, in great technical detail, how to build an enterprise-wide private cloud with Red Hat solutions
• Present the overall architecture of how Red Hat solutions, ranging from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to new cloud offerings, fit together to form a coherent solution
• Discuss Deltacloud implementation and usage
• Discuss how to run and manage a private cloud

Real World Cloud Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Network Satellite

Tim Scully — Partner – Systems Engineer, Jackpine Technologies

David Egts — Principal Architect, Red Hat

Virtualization and provisioning have become mainstays in system administration. When combined with cloud computing patterns and technologies, virtualization and provisioning offer a wealth of power and flexibility, as well as the potential for significant TCO reduction. But how do we make it all work together in a budget-constrained environment?

The United States Air Force had the same question. Because it was low on money and out of space, but still seeking to better service customer needs, the benefits of an open cloud infrastructure quickly emerged as the best choice for the United States Air Force to move forward. This session will review the United States Air Force project from conceptualization and implementation to post-deployment review.

Tim Scully and David Egts, principal architect at Red Hat, will begin this session with a brief overview of virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Network Satellite. They will then examine the details of building a cloud, which will include a discussion about customer functional and security requirements, hardware used (resource constraints), and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Network Satellite installation specifics. They will conclude the session by reviewing the hurdles that the United States Air Force encountered throughout the project, successes of the project, lessons learned from the project, and future project plans.

Grid on a Cloud: Not Just Marketing

James Labocki — Solution Architect, Red Hat

Greg Pryzby — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Grid on a Cloud (GOAC) is not what happens when you take two buzzwords and put them together to sell more software. GOAC is the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid, and Red Hat Network Satellite in order to:

1. Decouple grid nodes from physical hardware
2. Decrease time to provision grid nodes
3. Allow for dynamic scale up/down of grid environments

In this session, James Labocki and Greg Pryzby, senior solution architect, will discuss how the combination of these technologies works to solve many of the problems IT organizations face on a daily basis. They will also share use cases for GOAC.

The Cloud According to JBoss

Bob McWhirter — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

The current suite of Red Hat’s middleware projects and solutions can fully support a production-caliber Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). By building upon its proven technologies, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, the Infinispan-distributed storage grid, and the HornetQ next-generation messaging engine, Red Hat can enable both public and private PaaS implementations. A mixture of internally and externally hosted services may also be used to construct an overarching PaaS.

The final architecture of the PaaS that is built upon Java middleware depends on various aspects of the requirements, including security, availability, and a variety of corporate policies.

In this session, Bob McWhirter will examine all of the moving parts that comprise a production-grade JBoss Enterprise Middleware-based PaaS. He will walk attendees through multiple reference architectures, and explain some of the most important features and practices for writing applications.

Are all Cloud Infrastructures Created Equal? Considerations for a Better Cloud Experience

Reed Mullen — IBM, IT Optimization and Consolidation Initiative Leader, IBM System z

Whether you are looking to implement a private infrastructure to serve internal clients, or considering leveraging services from a public cloud provider, you need to understand how the choices you make will impact your business. In this session, IBM’s Reed Mullen will detail the considerations that should be made before leaping into the cloud.

Reed will highlight key issues around the following areas:

• Common cloud delivery models

• Key building blocks of private clouds
• IT-as-a-Service
• Service offering options
• Cloud computing workloads
• IBM Technology Adoption Program
• Business case results

Reed will also share customer ROI examples from both medium and large numbers of server consolidation, and provide final thoughts on the coming changes that IT managers will need to keep on their radars.

Deltacloud: Many Clouds, Under New Management

David Lutterkort — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

While clouds have become an important way to consume compute resources, cloud computing is still in its infancy. With so many clouds to chose from, writing simple scripts or entire applications for managing cloud resources is fraught with the twin perils of vendor lock-in and API incompatibilities. Deltacloud provides a way to use cloud resources in a provider-agnostic way and to share, combine, and subdivide existing cloud resources.

The Deltacloud API is a cloud-agnostic, public REST API geared towards long-term stability and backwards compatibility. Existing clouds are supported through an ever-growing number of drivers that talk to cloud implementations like Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Deltacloud Aggregator, which is built on top of the Deltacloud API, is a service that allows remixing cloud resources, eases cross-cloud tasks like image management, and presents these components in one seamless view.

In this session, David Lutterkort will focus on using the Deltacloud API and Aggregator. He will explain the usage of the Deltacloud API, how to write applications to that API, and the plans for evolution of the API. David will also provide an introduction to Deltacloud Aggregator and explain how it allows managing and sharing of existing cloud resources. In particular, he will explain how Deltacloud Aggregator can be used to combine existing cloud resources and export them as new virtual clouds.

Java 2020

Rich Sharples — Director of Middleware, Product Management, Red Hat

Dr. Mark Little — Senior Director Engineering, Middleware Engineering, Red Hat

In this session, Rich Sharples and Mark Little, Chief Technologist, middleware, will discuss the challenges Java faces over the next decade as well as the opportunities. They will also discuss cloud-style deployments, Platform as a Service (PaaS), scripting languages, and the JCP.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Cloud Operating System

Douglas O'Flaherty — Manager, Product Marketing, Red Hat

Lars Herrmann — Director, Product Marketing, Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the proven leading enterprise open source operating system. Now, with cloud computing progressing into the enterprise and public clouds emerging as a viable alternative, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is well positioned to be leveraged as the cloud guest operating system of choice. In this session, Douglas O’Flaherty and Lars Herrmann, director, product marketing at Red Hat, will cover the technical and business elements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that are relevant when used in cloud computing infrastructures, emphasizing the unique challenge of public cloud deployments.

Session topics will include:

• Cloud-relevant technologies included within Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Release models for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on public clouds
• ISV certifications
• Security
• Deployment flexibility & planning

Why RESTful Design for the Cloud is Best

Galder Zamarreño — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

In this session, Galder Zamarreño and Bill Burke, senior software engineer at Red Hat, will:

• Provide a brief introduction to RESTful principles
• Discuss how cloud-scale APIs are done best with REST
• Introduce Infinispan REST server, focusing on its cloud capabilities and simple REST API
• Detail how REST can apply to many APIs, focusing on some of the deeper principles and practices behind it and how easy it is to implement and use

Smarter Work with Virtualization and Cloud

Richard Allen — Team Lead – IBM Client for Smart Work, IBM

Andrew Cathrow — Senior Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Smarter work requires implementing more cost-effective solutions that can lower capital investments and operating costs. Whether you are in need of increasing collaboration across the organization, migrating to lower-priced desktop environments, or reducing administration and/or energy costs, Red Hat and IBM deliver proven solutions that combine software, virtualization, and SaaS (software as a service) to make this possible today. In this session, IBM’s Richard Allen, and Red Hat’s Andrew Cathrow will provide attendees with an overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and IBM solutions for smarter work.