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.
Mainframe & Database Legacy Modernization
Emily Brand — Services Delivery Manager, Red Hat
In this session, attendees will learn how to properly plan a legacy modernization, including learning how to manage each step in regards to the database layer without causing new and old applications to dramatically change. This session will also include a demonstration that covers:
- How to easily create views that applications can access via Java applications during new development
- How to replace legacy databases with modern databases in these views when necessary
- Why data services and data tiers are not only necessary, but highly scalable in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment
Location: Room 210
Topics: Big data, Development tools, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
The New Wave in BPM from Red Hat
Phil Simpson — Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Prakash Aradhya — Product Management Director, Red Hat
In this session, Prakash Aradhya will highlight the vision and roadmap of integrating Polymita BPM technologies, which were acquired by Red Hat in 2012, and Red Hat’s BPM technologies. He will discuss planned BPM tools and technologies, detailing:
- Tools for the complete lifecycle management of a business process
- Rich modeling tools for process modeling, user interface creations, etc.
- Process analysis tools, including process simulation
- Process execution tools like task management and process monitoring
- Business activity monitoring tools
Location: Room 210
Topics: BPM, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Java development, Manageability, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 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 CloudForms Roadmap: Build & Manage an Open Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Xavier Lecauchois — Director of Product Management, ManageIQ
John Hardy — Red Hat
This session will provide a technical jump start to managing your own open hybrid cloud environment. During the session, attendees will learn how Red Hat CloudForms can define, build, and deploy resources across public and private clouds, and across physical and virtual infrastructures. Xavier Lecauchois and John Hardy will provide business and architectural overviews, a roadmap for upcoming capabilities, and a brief demonstration.
Location: Room 304
Topics: Cloud deployment, Manageability, OpenStack, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Roadmap: Part I
Host:
Denise Dumas — Director, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Panelists:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Managers — Red Hat
Hear firsthand about Red Hat Enterprise Linux roadmap plans for current and upcoming releases from a panel of engineering managers whose teams are delivering the product’s release stream. In this two-hour session, these managers will highlight a variety of technology areas and will cover:
- Kernel
- Filesystem
- Storage
- Hardware enablement
- Virtualization
- Desktop
- Developer tools
- Security
- Core utilities
Panelists will also provide Red Hat Summit session recommendations, links, and reference materials so that attendees can dive even deeper into the technology.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Development tools, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Roadmap: Part II
Host:
Denise Dumas — Director, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Panelists:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Managers — Red Hat
Hear firsthand about Red Hat Enterprise Linux roadmap plans for current and upcoming releases from a panel of engineering managers whose teams are delivering the product’s release stream. In this two-hour session, these managers will highlight a variety of technology areas and will cover:
- Kernel
- Filesystem
- Storage
- Hardware enablement
- Virtualization
- Desktop
- Developer tools
- Security
- Core utilities
Panelists will also provide Red Hat Summit session recommendations, links, and reference materials so that attendees can dive even deeper into the technology.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Development tools, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Linux File Systems: Enabling Cutting-edge Features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7
Steve Dickson — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ric Wheeler — Senior Manager, Software Engineer, Red Hat
File and storage systems are the foundation of most enterprise users. In this session, Steve Dickson and Ric Wheeler will present the new features in recent releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and those expected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. They will provide an overview of new storage management tools and detail file system highlights, including updates about the:
- NFS stack to support Parallel NFS (pNFS)
- XFS file system, which offers up to 500TB in a single file system instance
- Btrfs file system status
Location: Room 302
Topics: Manageability, Performance, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 CLI: Ninja Management
Brian Stansberry — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
In this session, attendees will learn how to manage their JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 infrastructures using its powerful command-line interface (CLI) tool. They will also learn how to configure a single, standalone application server and manage groups of servers in a JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 managed domain.
Brian Stansberry will provide a deep dive into the features and capabilities of the CLI tool, explaining how to use the tool to get the maximum benefit out of a JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 installation. He will provide a hands-on demonstration of:
- Adding a Java Messaging Service (JMS) queue to a server configuration
- Deploying an application to a single server
- Adding new servers to a managed domain
- Rolling a deployment out to two groups of servers in a managed domain
- Gathering metrics from servers in a managed domain
- Using scripts to control the CLI
Location: Room 302
Topics: Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Performance Analysis & Tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Part I
D. John Shakshober — Senior Consulting Engineer, Red Hat
Larry Woodman — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
Bill Gray — Software Performance Engineer, Red Hat
Jeremy Eder — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
In the first hour of this two-hour session, attendees will explore the system performance analysis and tuning necessary to maximumize the performance of systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. In the first hour (part I), attendees will examine the effects of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures in today’s x86_64 server systems.
Session attendees will:
- Explain how to analyze system performance using several performance analysis tools like lscpu, lstopo, perf and numastat (which has been enhanced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 to show per-NUMA-node distributions of processes and memory)
- Explain how to manage and optimize applications in NUMA environments using manual tools like numactl and automated tools like numad for bare metal and KVM virtual environments
- Share how NUMA-optimization capabilities are being merged into Linux upstream for Fedora and future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Location: Room 304
Topics: Cost savings, Manageability, Performance, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Under the Hood of OpenShift, Turbocharged by Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ian Pilcher — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Christopher Alfonso — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Daniel Walsh — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Enterprise-class cloud computing must provide effective isolation of workloads to ensure security and performance. In most cloud environments, the virtualization layer is the primary provider of these capabilities; but virtualization has limitations in areas such as granularity, performance, and ISV support.
OpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, makes it possible to run thousands of applications for multiple users on a single virtual machine (or physical server) while ensuring secure separation of compute resources.
In this session, attendees will explore the features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that enable OpenShift to achieve secure, performant multi-tenancy within a single operating system instance (including: SELinux, cgroups, and Linux container technology (namespaces)).
This session will be of interest to those who want an in-depth understanding of OpenShift and those who need to manage the performance and security of multiple workloads (including virtual machines) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Cloud deployment, Flexibility, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Reliability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Performance Analysis & Tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Part II
D. John Shakshober — Senior Consulting Engineer, Red Hat
Larry Woodman — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
Bill Gray — Software Performance Engineer, Red Hat
Jeremy Eder — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
In the second hour of this two-hour session, Red Hat Enterprise Linux performance leaders will focus on optimizing network performance using advanced performance tools with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Specifically, they will:
- Highlight network performance tuning using the latest technologies from top network partners. These techniques apply to bare metal, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtual environments.
- Analyze system performance using new “perf” techniques and new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 performance analysis tools, including “tuna” and “tuned-adm.”
- Demonstrate how tuned-adm alters Red Hat Enterprise Linux tuning parameters dynamically for both high-throughput and low-latency IT environments on different Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
To close the session, they will put everything discussed into practical use with several examples of performance analysis and tuning for benchmarks and real-world applications.
Location: Room 304
Topics: Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & Microsoft Windows Interoperability Update
Mark Heslin — Principal Engineer, Red Hat
Organizations interested in integrating Linux systems into Active Directory domains can realize greater reliability and cost savings, and simplify user account administration. However, its difficult to determine which approach to do so is best.
In this session, Mark Heslin will provide an update on the current methods available for successfully integrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 systems into Active Directory domain environments. Mark will focus on the pros and cons of each method, configuration options, and the new features and capabilities available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. He will also discuss:
- Core components (e.g., Samba, Winbind, IdM, AD DS, Kerberos, LDAP, SSSD)
- Integration approaches (e.g., direct, indirect, third party)
- Configurations and use cases
- Best practices and integration guidelines
- IdM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Attendees will leave this session with the details needed to select the most appropriate configuration to securely authenticate Windows Active Directory domain users through Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 systems.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Integration, Interoperability, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Make the NICs Move: Adventures in Network Performance Tuning
Martin Porter — Vice President, Software Development, Solarflare
Jeremy Eder — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides advanced networking features and industry-leading performance, the capabilities of the network subsystem can be intimidating. Fortunately, Red Hat Enterprise Linux also provides excellent tools and the resources necessary to identify optimal tuning values and troubleshoot performance issues.
In this session, Solarflare’s Martin Porter and Red Hat’s Jeremy Eder will demonstrate tuning three unique workload scenarios using Solarflare NICs. These include:
- Low-latency scenario based on STAC benchmarks
- Web scenario based on scale testing from OpenShift by Red Hat
- Virtual scenario based on SR-IOV and the Linux bridge
Attendees will learn how to:
- Quickly understand their applications’ performance profiles
- Use tools (e.g., sar, sysstat, ethtool, perf, systemtap, gnuplot, etc.) that proactively advise and reactively identify performance issues
- Gain a greater understanding of their infrastructures through performance measurement
Location: Room 304
Topics: Flexibility, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Application development
This track covers application development tools and technologies. Example topics include: best practices, methodologies, and techniques for building applications in C, C++, Java, PHP/LAMP, Ruby, Node.js, and many other commonly used developer tools and languages, and new development approaches such as Platform-as-a-Service. Attendees will also learn how the tools that build, run, and scale applications are evolving.
Developer Toolset: Build, Run, & Analyze Applications On Multiple Versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Matt Newsome — Engineering Manager - Tools, Red Hat
As a C, C++, or Fortran developer, you want easy access to supported versions of the latest and greatest tools. You also want to write and test your application once for deployment on multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The latest Red Hat Developer Toolset release provides functionality that empowers developers to use a single set of tools to build, run, and analyze the performance of their applications for multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In this session, Matt Newsome will discuss:
- How to use Developer Toolset to develop applications with the same GCC version on multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases
- How resulting applications can be run and analyzed on multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases without changing the operating system runtime
- How to obtain a Red Hat Developer Toolset for application development
- The latest tools and features from the most recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases
Location: Room 208
Topics: Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Portability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Consume PaaS in the Cloud with OpenShift Online
Juan Noceda — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Mike McGrath — Principal OpenShift Architect, Red Hat
In this session, attendees will learn how to maintain stack governance and standardization and increase developer productivity by giving their development and operations teams self-provisioning platform environments in minutes. They will also learn how to go from forming the idea, to development, to production quickly and at a low cost. Topics will include:
- Fast application development and deployment in the cloud
- The benefits of OpenShift Online and key features for IT administrators, architects, and developers
- The differences between OpenShift Online, Red Hat’s hosted PaaS product, and OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat’s on-premise PaaS offering
- PaaS use cases
- Roadmap for the future direction of OpenShift
Location: Room 207
Topics: Big data, BPM, Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenShift Origin, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 2.0 / 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.
War Stories from the Cloud: Lessons from US Defense Agencies
Ted Brunell — Solution Architect, Red Hat
Join this session to learn how the transformation to virtualized- and cloud-based services is shaping the defense industry. In this session, decision-makers and policy-makers from the U.S. Army and independent defense agencies will share information about the new IT architectures taking shape. Their conversation will center around the use of Red Hat’s technologies and open hybrid cloud vision, and how they are shaping the next generation of data services. They will discuss:
- The benefits of cloud computing and an open approach
- Developing and deploying applications in a secure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment with OpenShift by Red Hat
- What role virtualization plays as the government moves to the cloud
- How APIs can be used to create unique solutions for challenging requirements
- Building open hybrid Infrastructure-as-Service (IaaS) clouds
Location: Room 309
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Storage, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and IT strategy alignment | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Cloud readiness
This track covers the changing concepts and implications of moving workloads to the cloud. Example topics include: data migration, consumption models, operational approaches, and management frameworks. Attendees will gain insight into cloud-readiness for their IT infrastructures and businesses, and learn how to maintain control, security, and compliance when moving to hybrid cloud operational models.
Implementation Best Practices for Red Hat CloudForms
Vinny Valdez — Principal Architect, Red Hat
James Labocki — Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
In this session, Vinny Valdez and James Labocki will discuss:
- Deploying Red Hat CloudForms
- Managing existing virtualization and cloud providers
- Importing existing workloads
- Managing workloads across new and existing providers
- Integrating CloudForms with VMware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Amazon EC2
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Development tools, Manageability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Managing Java Applications in an Open Hybrid Cloud
John Doyle — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
While the benefits of cloud computing are understood, the practical implications of managing applications and application servers in different on-premise and cloud environments is not as clear. In this session, attendees will learn about the different options, considerations, and benefits associated with managing and adminstering Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform in on-premise environments, in public clouds, and in a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) such as OpenShift by Red Hat. They will also learn about different management options and considerations for standalone and domain implementations of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.
Location: Room 209
Topics: Cloud deployment, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 1.0 / 5.0 |
DreamWorks Animation’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Selection: Why, How, & Benefits Realized
Greg Bulman — Senior Systems Administrator, DreamWorks Animation
Chris Van Tuin — Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Red Hat
As a result of its rapidly expanding business, Dreamworks Animation faced several IT challenges in 2010, including the need to:
- Increase its server base to support new initiatives
- Increase its build farm base
- Increase its development and test environments to complement production environments
- Expand into the cloud
DreamWorks selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to address these challenges. And in this session, Greg Bulman from DreamWorks will share the company’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization story, discussing:
- Why DreamWorks selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- The company’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization architecture, which spans across the globe
- Tuning information
- How DreamWorks leverages the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization SDK to provide a fully featured CLI and integration into automation tools
- Lessons learned from three years of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization experience
- DreamWork’s future virtualization plans
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
OpenShift Deep Dive: Running a Large, Public PaaS
Mike McGrath — Principal OpenShift Architect, Red Hat
OpenShift Online, Red Hat’s hosted PaaS offering, continues to grow along with the applications it supports, which are growing more sophisticated and demanding additional resources. In this session, Mike McGrath will detail what it takes to manage an environment like this and help connect the dots between Red Hat’s public OpenShift Online offering and its private, on-premise offering, OpenShift Enterprise.
In addition, Mike will discuss how to create a successful hybrid model between a private enterprise with traditional computing resources and a public PaaS. He will explain how to utilize both environments securely as demand requires it or as a transition is required from private hosting to public hosting.
Specifically, Mike will discuss:
- OpenShift architecture
- Capacity planning
- Performance tuning
- Monitoring and automated recovery techniques
- Common problems
- Hybrid cloud computing
- Creating custom cartridges
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Interoperability, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 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.
Building Backup & Archive Solutions with Red Hat Storage Partners
Scott Clinton — Senior Director, Product Marketing, Red Hat
Walter Tessman — Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
In this session, Red Hat will team up with its partners who are building backup and archive solutions with Red Hat Storage at the core. Red Hat Storage can drastically cut costs for online, near-line, and deep archive. In addition, the product is being architected into backup, archive, and recovery solutions. In this session, Scott Clinton and Walter Tessmann will answer your Red Hat Storage questions, and demonstrate how our partners use it to deliver new and innovative solutions.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Portability, Red Hat Storage, Red Hat Storage Server, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Creating Application-aware Business Services with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Ranjit Nair — Principal Technical Product Manager, Symantec
Symantec’s availability products, including VCS and ApplicationHA, along with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enable enterprise-class high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions for multi-tier, mission-critical applications running across virtual machines (VMs).
In this session, Symantec’s Ranjit Nair will discuss how to create a business service consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-based VMs. He will also discuss how to configure and manage:
- HA for VMs using Veritas Cluster Server
- Fault recovery for the business service
- Dependencies between different application tiers running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VMs
- Campus cluster HA for the business service
- DR for the business service
- HA for business-critical applications running inside VMs
- The orchestration of site failovers using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VCS
Location: Room 209
Topics: Clustering, Flexibility, Interoperability, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Built on FlexPod & NetApp Integration
Jon Benedict — Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
Chris Morrissey — Software Engineer, NetApp
Karthik Nagalingam — Reference Architect, NetApp
Ian Pilcher — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Greg Pryzby — Principal Consultant, Red Hat
In this session, Jon Benedict, Karthik Nagalingam, and Ian Pilcher will provide a deep dive into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization built on FlexPod. The FlexPod datacenter solution is a pre-validated design that provides predictable scaling and performance. Jon, Karthik, and Ian will explain what this means for admins, engineers, and IT decision makers, highlighting the benefits, the design, performance characteristics, and sizing in the context of virtualizing Oracle 11g RAC.
In addition, Jon and Chris Morrissey will demonstrate the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This integrated tool takes advantage of the plug-in framework available with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 and allows IT administrators to discover and provision NetApp storage directly from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Additonally, VSC for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also allows NFS-based virtual machines to be rapidly cloned from the storage array.
Location: Room 209
Topics: Clustering, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
IT efficiency
This track features how-to (step-by-step) sessions that describe aligning the activities relating to people, processes, and technologies with long-term business objectives. Example topics include: management, optimization, and reporting. Attendees will learn about practical, proven solutions that will help them meet tomorrow's business demands.
Using Red Hat Network Satellite Today & Into the Future
Thomas Cameron — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
Alice Cockrum — Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Todd Warner — Product Manager, Systems Management, Red Hat
Red Hat Network Satellite has been successfully managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in traditional datacenters – from small, local deployments to vast, mission-critical infrastructures – since 2002. In this session, Thomas Cameron, Alice Cockrum, and Todd Warner will discuss the future direction of Red Hat Network Satellite. They will also explain how to build next-generation technology into Red Hat Network Satellite with a focus on hyper-scale computing beyond the datacenter.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Managing Red Hat JBoss Middleware
Charles Crouch — Development Manager, Red Hat
Alan Santos — Product Manager, Red Hat
Are you responsible for managing Red Hat JBoss Middleware at your organization? For the lifecycle of deployed applications or services? To meet service levels or compliance requirements?
In this session, Alan Santos and Charles Crouch will describe how to effectively manage those requirements, and will provide:
- An overview of the management options available
- The relationship between Red Hat JBoss Operations Network and other Red Hat management offerings
- The roadmap for Red Hat JBoss Operations Network and management capabilities in the core application server
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Manageability, Portability, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Network Satellite Power User Tips & Tricks: System Deployment
Thomas Cameron — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
Red Hat Network Satellite Server is a powerful, flexible systems management solution for deploying, managing, monitoring, and redeploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Network Satellite allows users to decrease administrative costs and increase the time available for strategic tasks by performing single operations through the web user interface. These single operations can affect some or all of the user’s servers.
In this session, Thomas Cameron will explore the most useful Red Hat Network Satellite tips and tricks, which were developed by the Red Hat Systems Management subject matter expert team for deploying new systems. He will discuss:
- Configuration management and configuration macros
- System groups
- Custom and cloned channels
- Activation keys
- Kickstart
- Locked channels
- Deploying third-party or internally developed software
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Managing SELinux in the Enterprise
Daniel Walsh — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
How do you manage SELinux in a large environment? Set up alternative labelling? Turn on booleans? Monitor setroubleshoot logs? Install custom policy modules?
In this session, Daniel Walsh will explain how you can configure your local machine and export its content to multiple machines, using tools like Red Hat Network Satellite, RPM, Puppet, and Ansible. He will also explain how to:
- Configure SELinux out of the box using Kickstart
- Set up an MLS/LSPP system
- Configure SELinux-confined users using IDM/FreeIPA and standard LDAP
- Set up SELinux infrastructure within your environment
- Set up reporting tools
Location: Room 312
Topics: Fedora, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Subscription Tools: Easier Management & Faster Issue Resolution
Keith Robertson — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Bryan Kearney — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Your demanding technical environment requires you to have the tools necessary to manage your Red Hat product portfolio instantly available. That’s why we are making it even easier to manage your Red Hat products and access more relevant Red Hat expertise when you need it most.
In this session, Keith Robertson and Bryan Kearney will:
- Discuss how to easily manage your subscriptions in small and large environments
- Demonstrate Red Hat’s new in-product intelligence and diagnostics engine that enables you to find relevant Red Hat knowledge and solutions from within your product, based on data gathered around your specific issue
- Provide a Red Hat Subscription Management overview
- Explain how to manage subscriptions and streamline asset management workflow using the Red Hat Subscription Asset Management tool (SAM)
- Discuss and demonstrate Red Hat Assist, the new Red Hat tools and plug-ins, launching initially within Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, that provide Red Hat knowledge, diagnostic services, and support case creation from within your Red Hat enterprise products using your relevant system information
Bryan and Keith will also share recommended practices, answer your questions, and share Red Hat’s roadmap for delivering more integrated subscriber services that create a seamless experience between using and managing your Red Hat systems.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Reliability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 1.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network Automation & Scripting
Brian Ashburn — Middleware Solution Architect, Red Hat
Many customers are moving from IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as their primary application server. To do this, customers must convert operational processes from automating WebSphere or WebLogic to automating Red Hat JBoss Operations Network.
In this session, attendees will learn about automation and scripting with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network and will discuss:
- The types of scripting and automation commonly used when customers move from WebSphere to Red Hat JBoss Middleware
- Techniques for automating Red Hat JBoss Operation Network through the command line interface (CLI) and the REST interface
- How to use alerts within Red Hat JBoss Operations Network to perform actions and automate complex IT processes
Following this session, attendees should be able to write scripts for creating new resources (e.g., datasources, Java Message Service queues and topics, and Java Connector Architecture adapters) through Red Hat JBoss Operations Network. They should also be able to add alerts for performing actions based on events occurring in their environments.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 5.0 / 5.0 |
Building & Managing a Standard Operating Environment
Dirk Herrmann — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Todd Warner — Product Manager, Systems Management, Red Hat
Milian Zázrivec — Software Engineer, Red Hat
In this session, attendees will learn how to increase their productivity through the use of standard operating environments (SOEs). Dirk Herrmann will present real-world use cases and success stories for SOE implementation. Examples will include: in-depth analysis of automated provisioning, release management, and compliance management. In addition, Todd Warner and Milan Zázrivec will provide insight on how customers can use Red Hat Network Satellite to standardize SOEs and lifecycles.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Java development, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 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.
Controlling Clouds Beyond Safety
Gordon Haff — Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat
As an industry, we’ve mostly moved on from naive notions about cloud computing being inherently “safe” or “risky.” However, more sophisticated discussions require both greater nuance and greater rigor.
In this session, Red Hat cloud evangelist Gordon Haff will:
- Take attendees through some of the available frameworks for evaluating and mitigating potential issues in hybrid cloud environments
- Discuss key risk factors to consider
- Describe relevant provider certifications
- Show some of the ways that Red Hat’s offerings can help you meet your IT security and governance goals
This is a broad and sometimes complex topic. However, it’s very manageable if individual risk factors are considered systematically and specifically. This session will give attendees the tools and knowledge to make informed decisions.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Cloud deployment, Interoperability, Manageability, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
Middleware Platforms for Integration & BPM: A Product Comparison
Richard Naszcyniec — Senior Principal Program Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Customers of various sizes use the deep technical capabilities of Red Hat JBoss Middleware for integration and business process management (BPM). Are you looking to establish, expand, or standardize the middleware used for integration and BPM? Do you face the challenge of comparing and contrasting vendors to determine the best fit for your needs?
In this session, Richard Naszcyniec will discuss the strengths of Red Hat JBoss Middleware platforms for integration and BPM, and compare them to other middleware offerings. He will also detail several of the functional and economic advantages specific to each platform. Solutions addressed will include:
- Red Hat JBoss BRMS
- Red Hat JBoss A-MQ
- Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Location: Room 313
Topics: BPM, Cost savings, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Middleware Platforms for Application Development: A Product Comparison
Richard Naszcyniec — Senior Principal Program Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Customers who want to establish, expand, or standardize their middleware use for application development must compare vendors to determine the best fit. In this session, Richard Naszcyniec will offer competitive comparison data in order to help you evaluate a suite of Red Hat application development offerings, including:
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
- Red Hat JBoss Data Grid
- Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Managing Red Hat Subscriptions in a Hybrid Cloud Ecosystem
Jane Circle — Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Enterprises are actively pursuing hybrid cloud strategies that include running application components in both on-premise and off-premise environments. Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud strategy currently includes subscription portability and on-demand consumption for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware. The Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program enables Red Hat product teams, Red Hat Global Support Services, and the leading cloud provider partners to make these new subscription consumption models available to customers.
In this session, Jane Circle will:
- Provide an overview of the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program
- Explain how partners are selected and certified
- Discuss how customers can make their Red Hat subscriptions portable using the Red Hat Cloud Access process
- Detail the on-demand option for consuming Red Hat subscriptions through select public cloud providers
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Manageability, Red Hat Cloud
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Hypervisor Technology Comparison & Migration
Bhavna Sarathy — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Karen Noel — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Selecting the right virtualization solution for today’s modern datacenter is more complex than ever. And because server virtualization is a maturing, dynamic market, it includes factors at play that can result in datacenter migrations.
Today’s hypervisor technologies include: Citrix Xen, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Microsoft HyperV, and VMware ESX. The KVM hypervisor supports the largest x86 virtual machine, with industry-leading performance and an innovative architecture that benefits from the enhancements made to the Linux host. In addition, KVM hypervisor is well suited to run mission-critical applications in virtualized environments, utilizing the resource management and security features built within the products. KVM hypervisor is the foundational technology that powers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, a complete, open source virtualization solution.
In this session, Bhavna Sarathy and Karen Noel will compare the leading hypervisor technologies and demonstrate a seamless Xen to KVM migration.
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Taste of training
Red Hat Summit will have a Taste of training track focusing on a sampling from our robust training and consulting services that we offer on both an individual and team basis.
Provisioning Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network
Will Dinyes — Team Lead, JBoss Curriculum, Red Hat
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 can be used together to deploy applications and configurations to allow for the centralized control of large clusters of application servers.
In this session, attendees will be given hands-on access to deploying applications with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network to a cluster of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 servers running in Sstandalone mode.
Location: Room 206
Topics: Manageability, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Training
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Custom Scripting with CLI
Bruce Wolfe — Global Learning Services Curriculum Manager, Red Hat
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 introduced a new management interface: the CLI. Using the CLI, platform administrators can perform virtually any configuration task, even deployment of application packages, to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 servers running in standalone or domain mode. These configurations can be scripted for reuse using a variety of programming languages. In this session, attendees will be give hands-on access to writing and running CLI scripts to configure Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and to retrieve vital information about available services.
Location: Room 206
Topics: Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Training
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Setting Up Red Hat Identity Management
Rob Locke — Curriculum Manager, Training, Red Hat
Red Hat Identity Management is a centralized authentication, identity management, and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud-based enterprise environments. In this session, attendees will be shown how to:
- Install and setup IPA server
- Manage user accounts
- Install and configure IPA client
Location: Room 206
Topics: Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Begin Programming Your Red Hat Network Satellite Server
George Hacker — Curriculum Manager, Training, Red Hat
Red Hat Network Satellite is a powerful, flexible systems management platform for deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Its underlying database stores software profile, hardware profile, event history, and other systems configuration information about the registered systems it manages.
Red Hat provides a powerful application programming interface (API) that allows a system administrator or programmer to easily access the wealth of information stored in Red Hat Network Satellite Server.
In this session, attendees will learn how to:
- Write simple Red Hat Network Satellite API programs
- Perform queries and write reports using Red Hat Network Satellite API methods
- Use Red Hat Network Satellite API methods for system administration
Location: Room 206
Topics: Development tools, Manageability, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
The road ahead
This track features sessions covering the trends and strategies driving the future of enterprise computing. Example topics include: big data, mobile, enterprise storage for the datacenter and cloud environments, and intelligent systems. Attendees will be among the first to know about what's coming from Red Hat and how to better plan for shifts in the IT landscape.
OpenShift PaaS Overview & Roadmap
Matt Hicks — Managing Principal Architect, Red Hat
Juan Noceda — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
With OpenShift, Red Hat established an open source, market-leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform. In this session, Matt Hicks and Juan Noceda will discuss the business and technical cases for PaaS, detail what makes OpenShift a unique offering in this space, and preview the exciting developments planned for OpenShift’s future.
Matt and Juan will also:
- Discuss OpenShift basics
- Provide details about how it works
- Detail OpenShift’s latest features, including its multitenancy and security enhancements
- Demonstrate how OpenShift enables the developer to decide how to interact and utilize the PaaS solution
Don’t let us hold you back, come build your own!
Location: Room 311
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Development tools, Flexibility, Java development, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenShift Origin, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Introducing a New Linux Management API: OpenLMI
Russell Doty — Technology Strategist, Red Hat
This session addresses some of the hardest challenges faced by Linux system managers, including the configuring, managing, and monitoring of production servers. This is typically done by an experienced system administrator using a patchwork of standalone tools running on each system. There is a better way to work – to manage more systems in less time with less work – and it doesn’t require learning an entirely new way of working.
OpenLMI (the Linux Manageability Infrastructure program) provides a standard API for the remote and local configuration, management, and monitoring of key subsystems, including storage, networks, system services, and software. It is a new project focused on production servers that can range from high-end enterprise servers with complex network and storage configurations to virtual guests. OpenLMI is usually used to manage bare metal servers and directly manipulate system hardware, but it is equally capable of managing and monitoring virtual machine guests. Further, OpenLMI will support multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux; it isn’t just for new systems.
In this session, attendees will learn about the cost savings and operational improvements that can be gained from using OpenLMI for management tasks. They will also learn how to use OpenLMI (in the familiar Linux way) to take advantage of the capabilities and benefits of this new technology, including central policy management and advanced automation of operations.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Cost savings, Fedora, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Getting Ready for Systemd, the New Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Service Manager
Lennart Poettering — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Kay Sievers — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
The replacement of sysvinit by systemd as the system and service manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 brings a number of changes for system administrators. In this session, Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers will discuss what this change means for an administrator’s work process. Attendees will explore previous methods, if and how they changed, and how they can benefit from new functionality. Lennart and Kay will also discuss service management, SysV init scripts, logging, configuration, and more.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Fedora, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Network Virtualization & Software-defined Networking
Chris Wright — Technical Director Software-Defined Networking, Red Hat
Enterprise datacenter virtualization and cloud computing have put new pressures on the network. Traditionally, virtual compute workloads gained access to the network through simple hypervisor resident virtual switches bridging to physical VLANs. As these workloads scale in the cloud and move dynamically throughout the datacenter, the limits of a simple VLAN solution are stressed.
In this session, Chris Wright will look at new protocols and encapsulations like OpenFlow and VXLAN, new technologies such as Open vSwitch, and new concepts such as the software-defined network controller. He will examine how these innovations work together to reshape networking in the virtual datacenter.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Cloud deployment, Manageability, OpenStack, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Town hall
This track features moderated panels of Red Hat customers, partners, and solution experts. Example topics include: real world deployments, best practices, and lessons learned. Attendees will learn competitive advantages for driving increased business value.
Red Hat IT Relies on Red Hat Solutions: Drinking Our Own Champagne
Host:
Rajeev Jaswal — Director of Product and Customer Systems, Red Hat
In this panel, Red Hat IT team leaders will discuss how Red Hat products and other open source solutions are selected and used in house to support our growing business. Rajeev Jaswal, Red Hat’s director of product and customer systems, will lead this interactive panel, which will give attendees the opportunity to ask questions about how Red Hat IT best serves its customers: Red Hat associates.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Integration & Automation
Duc Doan — Principal Engineer, E*TRADE
John Liptak — Senior Lead Architect, CenturyLink
Robert Sedor — Lead Architect, Pitney Bowes
Craig Tystad — Director, Business Architecture and Planning, tw telecom
Enterprise businesses across a variety of industries and sectors rely on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Middleware to address the critical business demands facing IT organizations today. Hear from these customers on how they use Red Hat’s open source solutions to scale their IT architectures. Learn best practices and see how open source solutions can save time and money and give your company a strategic advantage.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Cost savings, ESB, Flexibility, Integration, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Establishing a Secure, Reliable & Optimal Infrastructure
JR Aquino — Senior Information Security Specialist, Citrix
Joseph Bezouska — Lead UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer, OfficeMax
Addam Krucek — Senior Staff Engineer, Shared Systems Platforms, Motorola
Jennie F. Lansang — Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation
Enterprise businesses rely on Red Hat solutions to address critical business demands facing IT organizations. Hear how they use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat solutions to scale their IT architectures. Learn best practices directly from Red Hat customers and see how these products help ensure secure, reliable infrastructures.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Cloud deployment, Clustering, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Hot Off the Press: Top Journalists on Today's Tech Trends
Host:
Technology reporters and bloggers are at the center of the industry’s hottest topics and discussions. In this panel, four journalists tracking the technology industry will discuss popular topics and emerging issues facing today’s IT leaders. They will cover Linux, cloud computing, virtualization, middleware, storage, and more. The group will address questions from a moderator and from audience attendees.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Portability, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Gaining Competitive Advantages with Red Hat Solutions
John Fulton — Lafayette College
Rodrique Heron — Cigna
Steven Leapline — Ansaldo
Ron Schaffer — Ansaldo
Greg Scott — Infrasupport Corporation
Robert Starr — Cigna
Engage with Red Hat customers who are virtualizing their IT infrastructures with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to reduce costs, scale with business growth, and maintain high-performing systems. 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 Red Hat solutions can give your business a competitive advantage.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Interoperability, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Storage, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Optimizing Infrastructures with Red Hat Network Satellite
Mike Dittmeier — IT Integration Specialist, Allegiant Airlines
Bernard Lee — Group Head of IT and VP Process and Innovation, YTL Power
Eric Nothen — Senior IT Analyst, Cargill
Aaron Schaeffer — Systems Engineer, Paychex
Join Red Hat customers to learn more about how they use Red Hat Network Satellite, an easy-to-use systems management platform, for growing their Linux infrastructures and open source environments. Find out how our panelists are managing tens, hundreds – even thousand – of servers as easily as one.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Flexibility, Integration, Interoperability, Manageability, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Building Next-generation Applications Today
Sanjay Attada — Director, Enterprise Services, Scholastic
Josh Clements — Application Development Manager, AAA
David Dennis — Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, GroundWork
Oksana Shtuka — Infrastructure Engineer Manager, Cigna
Join Red Hat customers for a diverse discussion about building next-generation applications in the real world. Learn why these companies turned to Red Hat, and discover how open source solutions can give your business a competitive advantage today. This panel will provide interactive and applicable content, with time allotted for questions during and after the presentation.
Location: Room 306
Topics: BPM, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Birds of a Feather
Implementing New Open Source Tools for Collaboration & Security
Chris Stierle — Senior Manager, IT Advanced Communications Services, Red Hat
Jay Madison — Director, IT Information Security, Red Hat
Red Hat IT has two major open source projects in the works: 1) its openUC collaboration system and 2) its new two-factor authentication solution, Lin OTP. With these offerings, Red Hat is bringing its customers, Red Hat associates, improved collaboration choices, better security, and increased flexibility. Red Hat IT initiated these projects with open source solutions and cost savings in mind, but with a host of other considerations at play. In both cases, Red Hat is implementing solutions that contribute positively to its bottom line, while also building the open source culture.
Join us for this birds of a feather session, to hear Chris Stierle discuss openUC and Jay Madison talk about Lin OTP. Chris and Jay will discuss the catalysts for these projects, the joys and challenges their teams have faced, what’s ahead for their areas, and how organizations can think creatively about employing open source solutions.
Location: Room 305
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 7:00 pm - 7:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Platform Needs Middleware & Middleware Needs Platform
Brian Likosar — Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
Joel Tosi — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Java developers and system administrators have the same goal – to deliver value to their customers and their companies. Some of us create the environment, keeping it stable, secure, and performant. While others of us create the software that our users ultimately interact with.
As enterprise Java developers, we write our code and maybe help with some JVM tuning. For the most part, a different person or group is responsible for the platform our code, container, and applications run on. As Java developers, it would be valuable to understand how to better tune, debug, and secure our systems.
As system administrators, we are happy running an operating system… but what’s the deal with these applications running in it? Why does it always seem like Java is leaking memory? What sort of tuning can we do in the operating system to help their applications perform better?
Join this birds of a feather session to get the answers to these questions, as well as discuss message logs, SELinux, iptables, networking, system constraints, and cgroups. This session is designed to have both sides of the environment working together to get a better understanding of tools and concepts that can help us in delivering great solutions.
Location: Room 305
Topics: Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 8:00 pm - 8:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |