Sessions & Labs
Sessions:
Application and data integration
This track provides overview and deep dive sessions that cover the products, features, and technologies for datacenter modernization and consolidation. Example topics include: storage migration, performance optimization, management of data in distributed applications, and middleware integration. Attendees will learn how to enable lines of business to rapidly respond to business events in an automated manner, automate rules-driven business processes, and integrate applications, data, and embedded devices across all cloud environments.
Red Hat Storage Server: Best Practices & Advanced Configurations
Peter Portante — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ben England — Performance Engineer, Red Hat
This talk builds on the “Best Practices for Red Hat Storage Server Performance” session (Thurs. at 4:50 p.m. EST) to explore design tradeoffs and performance implications for advanced use cases. Use cases include geo-replication, OpenStack Swift compatible Object store, and live virtual image stores including KVM-based virtualization such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) and Red Hat Open Stack (RHOS).
Location: Room 210
Topics: Clustering, GlusterFS, Integration, OpenStack, Performance, Red Hat Storage, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Application and platform infrastructure
This track features the developers who write the code, the solution architects who work in the field, and the product managers who contribute to product direction. Example topics include: technology overviews, roadmaps, and deep dives, deployment techniques, performance optimization, and system management. Attendees will learn how to increase performance and scalability, implement security policies, meet service level agreements, and more effectively manage deployments.
Red Hat OpenStack Performance & Scale
Mark Wagner — Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat
In this session, Mark Wagner will review performance and scale testing of Red Hat OpenStack, including management platform performance and individual node performance. He will also discuss the tools, methodologies, and strategies used in the testing. And using test data from Red Hat’s Performance Lab, Mark will demonstrate tunings that improve performance and show where these tunings will be applied to improve out-of-the-box performance. He will also reveal tips and tricks for achieving higher density.
Location: Room 304
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, GlusterFS, OpenStack, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Performance
Mark Wagner — Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat
In this session that covers the performance and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Mark Wagner will:
- Demonstrate how to take advantage of the key performance areas of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- Review data and tuning information that was discovered in Red Hat’s performance lab
- Discuss Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Storage integration
- Review techniques for migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Location: Room 304
Topics: GlusterFS, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Business and IT strategy alignment
This track targets the juncture of business and IT considerations necessary to create competitive advantage. Example topics include: new architecture deployments, competitive differentiators, long-term and hidden costs, and security. Attendees will learn how to align architecture and technology decisions with their specific business needs and how and when IT departments should drive competitive advantage.
Open Hybrid Cloud is the New IT
Bryan Che — Senior Director, Red Hat
In this session, Bryan Che will:
- Provide an overview about Red Hat’s cloud strategy and portfolio
- Discuss cloud and IT trends
- Discuss the most important considerations for creating an enterprise cloud strategy
- Compare the various approaches to cloud
Bryan will also explain how to work with Red Hat’s comprehensive cloud portfolio to build an open hybrid cloud – from building cloud infrastructure to managing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Location: Room 309
Topics: GlusterFS, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenShift Origin, OpenStack, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage Server
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and IT strategy alignment | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 1.0 / 5.0 |
Community and partner ecosystem
This track showcases community leaders and their innovative upstream work, as well as the certified commercial solutions that the Red Hat partner ecosystem brings to market. Attendees will also gain a better understanding of the value of a Red Hat subscription and learn how to extract the maximum value from their investments.
Real World Perspectives: Open Source Enablement
Host:
Guy Martin — Managing Principal Architect, Red Hat
This panel, moderated by Guy Martin, will feature some of the most influential leaders in the technology industry. Attendees will learn:
- Real-world use cases for deploying open source software internally and in products that are developed for customers
- Exactly how Red Hat’s partners strategically adopt open source software
- Governance processes for incorporating open source software into products
- Best practices for using open source components across multiple product lines
- Approaches to community participation
- How to use and contribute to open source software
Location: Room 209
Topics: Fedora, GlusterFS, Java development, JBoss Community projects, OpenShift Origin, oVirt, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Community Catalysts: The Value of Open Source Community Development
Dave Neary — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Red Hat products are built on open source software. Unlike proprietery software, open source software provides the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute the code, giving customers an opportunity to engage in the product development process and preview future Red Hat products.
In this session, Dave Neary will discuss community projects that Red Hat has sponsored and participated in, including oVirt, OpenStack, JBoss Application Server, LibreOffice, GNOME, and Fedora. Attendees will:
- Discover the benefits of using community-developed software and engaging with upstream communities
- Learn about how French services company AlterWay built a public cloud offering on oVirt
- Preview upcoming Red Hat product features
- Learn about how to influence the development of future features by working directly with the developers
Location: Room 209
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Fedora, GlusterFS, Java development, JBoss Community projects, OpenShift Origin, OpenStack, oVirt
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 1.0 / 5.0 |
GlusterFS Internals & Roadmap
Vijay Bellur — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jeff Darcy — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
John Mark Walker — Director of Communities, Red Hat
GlusterFS is a distributed file system that can scale to several petabytes, runs on commodity hardware, and aggregates storage capacity from various servers. In this session, Jeff Darcy, Vijay Bellur, and John Walker will preview new features in GlusterFS 3.4 and provide the project’s roadmap, discussing future features. In addition, they will detail the:
- GlusterFS translator framework
- Process for developing new translators
- Key algorithms used.
- Recent developments, including syncop framework, libgfapi, and glupy
Location: Room 209
Topics: Big data, Clustering, Fedora, GlusterFS, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Market perceptions and competition
This track covers the datacenter landscape. Example topics include: product comparisons, open source methodology, and product analysis that debunks common misconceptions. Attendees will learn how Red Hat cloud, middleware, operating system, storage, and virtualization products stack up against proprietary offerings and fit within the broader industry landscape.
Choose Your Own Path to the Cloud with Red Hat
Gordon Haff — Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat
There’s no single approach to building a cloud as IT teams aren’t trying to solve the exact same problem. That’s why Red Hat products are designed to work together to modernize your infrastructure and deliver the flexibility and agility promised by cloud computing.
In this session, Gordon Haff will provide examples of how Red Hat customers are using the company’s product portfolio to build clouds. These will include in-production examples that require cloud readiness and massive scalibility from Red Hat Storage Server and an example of using OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux together.
Attendees will learn about a combination of case studies and use cases that demonstrate practical cloud solutions that use one or more Red Hat products. Learn how Red Hat technology can make you cloud ready!
Location: Room 313
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Flexibility, GlusterFS, Interoperability, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Performance, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Storage Server, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |