Sessions

Unlocking the Value of the Cloud

Organizations large and small are already using cloud computing to dramatically increase the flexibility of their IT infrastructure and reduce their costs. Learn how Red Hat’s approach lets you evolve to the cloud at your own pace while leveraging the investments that you’ve already made. And this isn’t a closed cloud that forces you to commit to a single vendor’s stack. It’s a cloud built on the open source, open standards, and open community that underlie everything Red Hat does.

Cloud Infrastructure Matters: Virtualization, Linux and more

Virtualization is the foundational technology for cloud computing, but it is also an important technology in its own right for achieving operation efficiencies in a modern datacenter. Virtualization helps organizations expand their IT capabilities and simultaneously lower capital and operational costs. We will explore key functionality and use cases for server and desktop virtualization. We will also discuss how you can build a virtualization architecture using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and lay the groundwork for both internal and external Clouds using Red Hat technologies.

PaaS, Present and Future: The Essentials for Building, Hosting, Integrating & Managing JBoss Applications in the Cloud

The ability to develop applications, seamlessly integrate them with existing heterogeneous environments and deploy them to a cloud infrastructure is what makes Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions so attractive. But, the benefits of rapid time to market, increased flexibility and lower costs are not guaranteed. How you design and implement the solution is critical.

Many PaaS offerings introduce a new, proprietary application development environment. Others deliver a PaaS based only on simple developer frameworks, limiting choice and application portability. When evaluating offerings, it’s important to consider portability and interoperability in both development and deployment, support for the programming models you choose to employ, the breadth of the middleware reference architecture, and the availability of tools to assist you throughout the entire application life cycle – from development through management.

In this session we’ll cover the essential requirements for Platform as a Service, and discuss how you can leverage Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Middleware today to build, host, integrate and manage applications in public or private clouds.

Real-World Perspectives

Enterprise businesses across a variety of industries and sectors rely on Red Hat products and solutions to address the critical business demands facing IT organizations today. Learn best practices and see how open source solutions can give your business a competitive advantage in the real world. Hear about customers’ plans to evolve current Red Hat implementations to virtualize their infrastructures and build private clouds.

Roundtables

Deeper conversations on relevant topics such as:

• How to get started building a cloud
• Virtualization management
• Managing your cloud infrastructure
• Security in a virtual world
• Building applications for the cloud