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.
Design Business Intelligence Appliances Using Red Hat Technologies
Vamsi Chemitiganti — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
Derrick Kittler — Solution Architect, Red Hat
In this session, attendees will learn how to design an industrial-strength business intelligence appliance using Red Hat technology, as well as how to store the information they need to make informed business decisions. They will also learn how:
- Red Hat JBoss Data Grid’s in-memory data grid enables real-time data access
- JBoss enterprise service bus (ESB) and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio Portfolio support integration
- Red Hat Storage bundles storage
- Red Hat JBoss BRMS integrates rules, events, and workflow
Location: Room 210
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Integration, Java development, OpenShift by Red Hat, Portability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform, Red Hat Storage
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 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 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 |
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 |
KVM Hypervisor Roadmap & Technology Update
Bhavna Sarathy — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Karen Noel — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (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 kernel. In addition to the numerous performance improvements, the KVM hypervisor is well suited to run mission-critical workloads in a virtualized environment, utilizing the resource management and security features built within it.
KVM supports both Linux and Windows guests and provides a Microsoft-certified environment for customers to deploy virtual machines and applications with confidence. It is the foundational technology that powers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack, and will soon provide tighter integration with Red Hat Storage.
In this session, Bhavna Sarathy, the KVM technology product manager, and Karen Noel, the KVM engineering manager, will present the KVM hypervisor roadmap and will outline the reasons that make KVM a better choice in terms of architecture, technology, and value for its users. They will also provide insights and details about the latest virtualization additions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. In addition they will:
- Detail the KVM architecture and virtualization stack
- Detail the latest KVM hypervisor features delivered in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and inherited by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3
- Provide insight into future features
- Highlight collaboration and integration plans within Red Hat’s technology portfolio
Location: Room 304
Topics: Integration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
SELinux for Mere Mortals
Thomas Cameron — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
While Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is an incredibly powerful tool for securing Linux servers, it has a reputation for being difficult to configure. As a result, many system administrators simply turn it off. Fortunately, the incredible amount of work completed by the SELinux community in recent years has made SELinux system administrator-friendly.
In this session, attendees will:
- Learn the basics of SELinux
- Review the SELinux architecture
- Discover how to configure, analyze, and correct SELinux errors
- See how to generate basic policy modules to enable non-SELinux-aware applications to work on SELinux-protected systems
- See real-world examples of how to use this tool
Location: Room 302
Topics: Fedora, OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage, Red Hat Storage Server, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 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 |
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 |
Tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Databases
Sanjay Rao — Principal Performance Engineer, Red Hat
In this session, Sanjay Rao will cover the various aspects of tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux to optimize database performance. He will also:
- Describe how to implement tuning settings
- Share data and charts that illustrate the impact of the tuning recommendations
- Offer tips on how to use Linux tools to identify performance issues
The tuning recommendations presented will be for bare metal and for virtual machines running databases on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Evolving & Improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFS
Steve Dickson — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
The footprint of the Linux network file system implementation has changed over the years. NFSv4, pNFS, Label NFS, FedFS, and Secure NFS are constantly evolving.
In this session, attendees will learn about these technologies and where they are in their current evolution process and stability, on both the server and client. Take part in an open discussion about the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFS offerings, with the goal of understanding how Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFS can be improved.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Interoperability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 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 |
Bring Order to Your Application Madness with Software Collections
Marcela Maslanova — Software Engineering Supervisor, Red Hat
Software Collections simplify the process of introducing new libraries, applications, and complete environments in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And with Software Collections, customers can keep running their third-party applications without forced migrations, even when they upgrade to new versions of the their operating systems.
Red Hat has been using Software Collections internally to enhance the developer experience for OpenShift by Red Hat and development toolset users. These internal teams hope to give Red Hat users the opportunity to use Software Collections to install their own software outside of the regular paths, as well as the tools to package and deploy their own solutions.
During the session, Marcela Maslanova, supervisor of the Languages Group will present information about:
- The advantages of Software Collections
- The products that currently use Software Collections
- Tools that work with Software Collections
- Examples of how to run your applications within certain collections
Location: Room 302
Topics: Development tools, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 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.
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 |
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.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Foundation for an Open Hybrid Cloud
Mark Coggin — Senior Director, Product Marketing, Red Hat
The operating system is a critical component of the cloud. Linux operating systems are used most often in cloud deployments; and Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a unique freedom of choice. This choice is rooted in the transparency and collaborative nature of Red Hat’ development model and its commitment to open standards. In this session, attendees will learn about the consistent, stable environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and how it performs in physical and virtualized deployments whether in on-premise, hosted, or hybrid environments.
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Flexibility, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Adobe Systems Offers Customers Cloud-based Solutions through Red Hat Enterprise Linux & AWS
Mitch Nelson — Director of Managed Services, Adobe
Adobe Systems, a long-time user of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, wanted to offer its enterprise customers easy access to sandbox resources to evaluate and prototype solutions using Adobe products. Turning to the cloud, Adobe used Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to not only deliver a sandbox solution, but also to offer customers a Software- as-a-Service (SaaS) option for deploying Adobe-based solutions. Today, this solution helps customers simplify deployment, lower cost of ownership, and accelerate time to value.
In this session, Adobe’s Mitch Nelson will detail this solution and discuss standard software deployment models, scaling, BU/DR, and cross-geo replication of AEM/CQ.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Optimizing HPC Clouds for NASA with Red Hat Solutions
Hoot Thompson — Systems Engineer, NASA GSFC
D. John Shakshober — Senior Consulting Engineer, Red Hat
Mark Wagner — Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) pursues new and innovative technologies that will advance its high performance computing (HPC) offerings. One such technology is server virtualization, which has the potential to spawn virtual HPC clusters in private and commercial clouds. NCCS’ strategy is to allocate resources as compute load or special processing needs dictate. This requires a software infrastructure that stands up and tears down clusters on demand. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virutalization provide a foundation for fulfilling this vision.
Testing has shown that virtualized Infiniband and guest performance will be key to the success of such a hybrid computing philosophy. Various optimizations (e.g., guest placement, support of non-uniform memory, x86_64 huge page support, and SR-IOV) have allowed NCCS to utilize virtual machines that approach the bare metal performance on loads such as Linpack and the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (MPI).
In this session, NASA’s Hoot Thompson and representatives from Red Hat will discuss this use case for virtualized HPC clusters. They will also describe the test environment and thoroughly review test results.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | 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.
Tackling Compliance with Red Hat
Steve Grubb — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jack Rieden — Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Open source software is frequently described as better, faster, more affordable, and more secure than its proprietary counterparts. In addition to being used in regulated environments, Red Hat products make compliance easier.
In this session, two members of Red Hat’s Security Technologies team will discuss the journey of open source code – from the community, to improving security and stability, to become certified for FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria, to helping customers continuously stay compliant with tools like OpenSCAP and industry regulations like PCI-DSS. The team members will also discuss Red Hat’s product certification roadmap and explain how Red Hat collaborates with communities to develop government and industry policy for its products.
Location: Room 309
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
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.
Applying Tuning Settings with "tuned"
Wander Boessenkool — Global Learning Services Curriculum Manager, Red Hat
This session will introduce attendees to the automatic tuning daemon tuned. The automatic tuning daemon allows administrators to set a tuning-profile for their systems so that important tuning parameters will be set and adjusted on the fly.
In this session, attendees will be shown how to:
- Install the automatic tuning daemon
- Configure the automatic tuning daemon
- Create and modify tuning profiles
Location: Room 206
Topics: Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Training
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 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 |
SELinux for Immortals
Forrest Taylor — Curriculum Manager, Training, Red Hat
SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) was introduced to the open source world at the end of 2000 and was included in the 2.6.0-test3 kernel and Fedora Core 2. There have been many enhancements to SELinux since that time; and in this session, Forrest Taylor will investigate one of those enhancements: semanage. Semanage is an expanded SELinux technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Attendees will view demonstrations with semanage and explore semanage with hands-on labs and use- cases.
Location: Room 206
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Managing Updates on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Scott McBrien — Global Learning Services Curriculum Manager, Red Hat
There are a variety of concerns (e.g., what version of software you’re required to run for vendor support or whether your organization wants all updates, bug fixes, or security-related updates only) that can affect your approach to applying updates to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
In this session, attendees will review:
- These concerns and strategies to mitigate them
- Yum and RPM queries that can provide you with the detailed information you need
- Several solutions provided by Red Hat for managing updates for machines
- The yum security plugin and Red Hat Network Satellite API
Location: Room 206
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Training
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Filesystem Access Control Lists & Special Permissions
Rudolf Kastl — Global Learning Services Curriculum Manager, Red Hat
When controlling access to files on standard Linux file systems, there are scenarios in which the basic file permission mechanisms do not work well meeting real-life requirements. For example, there are instances when files or directories need to be accessible by certain users or groups in ways that are hard to express using the basic permission mechanisms. Sometimes, files created in particular directories should be accessible by particular users or groups by default.
In this session, attendees will learn how to use access control lists (ACLs), usable with the XFS and ext4 file systems most commonly used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to set complex sets of permissions on files and directories. Attendees will also learn:
- Whether ACLs are in use
- ACLs’ effects on file access permission
- The effects of special permissions (e.g., setuid, setgid, and the sticky)
Location: Room 206
Topics: Flexibility, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 4.0 / 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 |
Linux Containers Overview & Roadmap
Bhavna Sarathy — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Daniel Walsh — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Linux container technology allows a customer to carve a system out into isolated containers, and run applications securely within the confines of the containers. It facilitates multi-tenancy, which allows IT organizations to take better advantage of the large servers available in their datacenter. While multi-tenancy provides great flexibility for server resource management, especially for service providers, it introduces additional complexity, especially related to the security of applications and data that reside on the same server.
In this session, Bhavna Sarathy and Daniel Walsh will discuss resource management, namespacing, and the use of SELinux to tighten the security of Linux containers. Attendees will learn about the Linux container roadmap for Red Hat Enterprise Linux products and view a demonstration of secure Linux containers.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, OpenShift by Red Hat, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat-powered, Energy-efficient Hyperscale ARM Server
Jon Masters — Chief ARM Architect, Red Hat
Red Hat demonstrated a bicycle-powered, energy-efficient HP ARM server at Red Hat Summit 2012, integrating a full server solution onto a single hyperscale system-on-chip. ARM servers have created a lot of buzz since then.
In the intervening months, we have invested heavily in the Fedora community, enhancing the Fedora ARM Project, and introducing initial support for the first 64-bit ARM server systems. Red Hat has also joined the Linaro Enterprise Group as a founding member and has taken a strong leadership position in the definition of the first ARM server standards. As a powerful player in the development of emerging technologies, Red Hat will continue ARM development in the year ahead.
In this session, Jon Masters will provide an update on all of the exciting work bringing Red Hat expertise to ARM server systems.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Fedora, Flexibility, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
The Bright Future of OpenJDK
Deepak Bhole — Engineering Manager, Red Hat Canada Ltd., Red Hat
Red Hat has long been heavily involved in the world of Java and before OpenJDK, the company dedicated significant resources toward GCJ. Since the advent of OpenJDK, most of those GCJ resources have been diverted toward OpenJDK.
Today, Red Hat is working on multiple aspects of OpenJDK from both development and performance perspectives. In this session, Deepak Bhole will discuss:
- The work Red Hat is doing to brighten the future of Java through OpenJDK
- The work being done toward OpenJDK 8 and its planned features and enhancements
- Red Hat’s plans for OpenJDK 9 and 10, including plans for ARM64 port, Thermostat (an open source monitoring, profiling, instrumenting, and management tool for the JVM), and Garbage collection
Location: Room 311
Topics: Development tools, Java development, Performance, Portability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 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 |
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.
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 |
Big Data & Traditional Databases
Mark Coggin — Senior Director, Product Marketing, Red Hat
Are you being forced to re-evaluate your database and platform strategies to accommodate a big data solution? The technology you pick to manage your data should satisfy your organization’s long-term objectives. But how do you know which solution fits best?
In this session, a panel of industry experts will represent diverse data management approaches – from traditional relational databases to NoSQL. Attendees will get a peek behind the curtain to better understand how databases will evolve in the age of big data, as well as what other changes these transformations will drive. Bring your opinion and take part in the conversation.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Big data, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 1.0 / 5.0 |
Secure Development Practices
Host:
Langdon White — Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Evangelist, Red Hat
Panelists:
Josh Bressers — Supervisor, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Matt Newsome — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Norman Mark St. Laurent — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Daniel Walsh — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
This expert panel will include:
- Josh Bressers, an open source security expert for Fedora and Mozilla and the leader of Red Hat’s Product Security team
- Dr. Matt Newsome, leader of the toolchain team at Red Hat
- Norman Mark St. Laurent, senior solution architect on the Red Hat Federal team
- Daniel Walsh of SELinux fame
- Langdon White, moderator and developer of 200+ web applications in the business world
This panel is being reprised, because of its popularity at Red Hat Summit 2012. Attendees are encouraged to prepare and bring questions about writing secure applications.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Development tools, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Parallel NFS: Storage Leaders & NFS Architects Panel
Host:
Ric Wheeler — Senior Manager, Software Engineer, Red Hat
Panelists:
Sorin Faibish — Distinguished Engineer, Fast Data Group, Office of the CTO, EMC
Parallel NFS allows greater scalability for NFS servers by allowing NFS clients to communicate directly with multiple data sources in a clustered NFS server, without having to pass all data requests through the NFS metadata server.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 was the first enterprise operating system to support parallel NFS. In this panel, parallel NFS leaders from the storage industry and the Linux kernel developer community will provide a broad overview of what this new NFS feature means for Red Hat Enterprise Linux users. They will also provide insight into other future features of NFS.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 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 |
Birds of a Feather
Using an Open Source Framework to Catch the Bad Guy
Norman Mark St. Laurent — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gives incident response, forensics examiners, and system administrators easy access to lightweight, easy-to-use tools and techniques that allow them to quickly identify file system modifications, changes, and compromises. The integrity-checking tools that ship with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are open source and packaged with the system.
A host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) provides the data integrity needed to ensure adequate protection of information and system data, and helps meet security requirements and compliance. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, RPM Package Manager and Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) delivers continuous and automated monitoring for security compliance and for implementing the needed security controls for a true “defense-in-depth” approach, enabling built-in forensics, incident response, and security to catch the bad guy.
Attendees will leave this session with a clear understanding of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 audit capabilities. They will also understand the importance of including procedures and hands-on tracking of security-relevant events and configuration to allow for secure, reliable, fine-grained, and configurable requirements. The attendee will gain a fundamental understanding of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for post-mortem analysis, intrusion detection, and live system monitoring.
Location: Room 303
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm | 4.0 / 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 |