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.
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 |
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 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.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the JBoss Galaxy (2013 Edition)
Burr Sutter — Product Management Director, Developer Products, Red Hat
With this high-tech travel guide, attendees can easily navigate the vast, complex, and often bewildering world of open source software (OSS). Session attendees will examine several JBoss Community projects and explore the greater OSS ecosystem, which is constantly producing new tools, frameworks, engines, and techniques.
In this session, Burr will:
- Highlight the latest and greatest tools, frameworks, and techniques
- Highlight key technologies that have potential for tremendous impact on the typical enterprise application
- Provide insight into how the JBoss Community is making your custom application development more productive
At the end of the session, attendees will be able to navigate the range of JBoss Community projects. They will also better understand how they fit into Red Hat JBoss Middleware, Red Hat’s enterprise middleware portfolio.
Location: Room 208
Topics: BPM, Cloud deployment, Development tools, Java development, JBoss Community projects, Mobile, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 Developer Experience: A Sneak Preview
Mark Proctor — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 introduces:
- Streamlined authoring, building, and deployment of rules, events, and processes
- A Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) layer for a more elegant programming model, with less boilerplate code
- A fully integrated, customizable, web-based workbench with a Git repository backend
This session is targeted at BRMS developers who want to see how this latest version can simplify their lives.
Location: Room 207
Topics: Java development, Red Hat JBoss BRMS
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Simplifying Large-scale, Middleware Migrations with JBoss Cake
Brad Davis — Program Manager, Red Hat
As more enterprises adopt open source software, JBoss Cake is there to make the transition easier for them. Cake, a JBoss Community project, was created in 2011 with the mission of reducing the time, cost, and risk of migrations for enterprises with existing proprietary Java EE investments.
In this session, the project’s creator, Brad Davis, will discuss utilizing Cake to assist with Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform migrations. Brad will discuss:
- Migration planning tools
- How to leverage Cake throughout the IT migration process
- Cake’s capabilities within Java EE migrations
- Techniques for making large-scale Java platform migrations successful
- Cake’s feature roadmap. It will also include a live demonstration of JBoss Cake.
Brad will also provide a live Cake demonstration. The session will cater to both organizational leaders seeking information on large-scale migrations as well as architects, managers, and developers responsible for migration implementations.
Location: Room 207
Topics: BPM, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Ruby for the Enterprise with JBoss Torquebox
Jeremy Davis — Middleware Solution Architect, Red Hat
The popularity of the Ruby programming language is growing dramatically. Gartner predicts that 20% of the Global 2000 will use Ruby in application development by 2015. And Indeed.com reports a 5,500% growth of Ruby-related jobs over the past five years.
While this growth is fueled by Ruby on Rails, the revolutionary web framework, there are many challenges to adopting Ruby in the enterprise, including:
- Communicating with legacy applications
- Ruby’s unpredictable performance
- Keeping machines patched
JBoss Torquebox and jRuby solve these problems. JBoss Torquebox leverages the innovative class loading in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 to bring Ruby to the application server. And it does so in a way that both Rubyists and Java developers can understand.
In this session, attendees will gain the productivity of Ruby without losing their existing development assets or incurring the wrath of your operations team. This session goes from command line to a working enterprise application—using business rules, workflow, messaging, and full-text search in the process.
Attendees will build a human resources application using:
- Ruby on Rails for the web interface
- Red Hat JBoss BRMS for evaluating applicants
- jBPM 5 to orchestrate the hiring process
- JMS to integrate with external systems
- Hibernate Search for full text search of candidates’ resumes
Location: Room 208
Topics: BPM, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Business and IT strategy alignment
This track targets the juncture of business and IT considerations necessary to create competitive advantage. Example topics include: new architecture deployments, competitive differentiators, long-term and hidden costs, and security. Attendees will learn how to align architecture and technology decisions with their specific business needs and how and when IT departments should drive competitive advantage.
Integrating Distributed, Cloud, & Mobile Applications into the Intelligent, Integrated Enterprise
Pierre Fricke — Director, Product Marketing, Red Hat
Ken Johnson — Director, Product Management, Red Hat
Enterprises must handle an exploding number of business events and data associated with them. These business events and data are increasingly generated by new-generation IT applications and devices on new architectures. And open hybrid clouds and mobile applications are high-growth platforms at the center of this shift. These applications must be integrated and the integration solution should be flexible and adaptable to constantly changing business conditions.
At Red Hat, we offer a better path to business leadership by helping businesses build intelligent, integrated enterprises that anticipate and respond to business events, regardless of where they are generated, with high-quality answers, products, and services. Leveraging Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, and Red Hat JBoss BRMS enable IT to drive better business results faster.
In this session, attendees will learn:
- What an intelligent, integrated enterprise is
- The value of having an intelligent, integrated enterprise
- Intelligent, integrated scenarios and examples
- How to build an intelligent, integrated enterprise that includes distributed, cloud, and mobile applications
While this session will focus on business issues and value, it will also include some technical content in terms of product descriptions, cloud/on-premise/mobile scenarios, and use case examples.
Location: Room 309
Topics: Integration, Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and IT strategy alignment | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 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 |
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.
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 |
Migrating from JRules to Red Hat JBoss BRMS
Keita Yamaguchi — Systems Engineer and Project Leader, Softbank Mobile Corp.
In this session, Keita Yamaguchi from Softbank Mobile, the largest mobile communications company in Japan, will discuss his company’s recent migration from JRules to Red Hat JBoss BRMS. Keita will detail:
- How the business rules engine was adopted and adapted
- The benefits realized from the migration
- The pros and cons of the open source software implementation
- Migration strategy, tips, and differentiation points that were considered
Keita will also introduce the migration tool that was used to automatically migrate the rule definitions of JRules BAL to the Drools rule language. He will provide a demo of the tool and explain how to adapt it for other migration projects.
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cost savings, Development tools, Portability, Red Hat JBoss BRMS
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 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.
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: 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: 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
Real-world Perspectives: Business Rules & Red Hat JBoss BRMS
Host:
Jeremy Davis — Middleware Solution Architect, Red Hat
Panelists:
Arnold Hahamyan — Senior Enterprise Architect, Nissan North America
Gavin McMillan — Director Engineering and Technology, The Nielsen Company
Join this birds of a feather panel on business rules and Red Hat JBoss BRMS as customers discuss the basics of rules engines, how utilizing a rules engine can impact your business, lessons learned, and specific Red Hat JBoss BRMS examples.
Location: Room 305
Topics: Java development, Red Hat JBoss BRMS
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm | 1.0 / 5.0 |
Maven Repository: Best Practices for Easy Migration
Max Rydahl Andersen — Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 6 comes with Maven repository, meaning customers can now easily migrate from JBoss Application Server 7 to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6. The Maven repository best practices can be used by many Maven-based projects and should be considered as they enable easy upgrades and migrations regardless of using Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform, or Red Hat JBoss Data Grid.
In this session, Max Rydahl Andersen will discuss these best practices and their benefits, as well as:
- How the Maven repository came to be
- What concerns should be address
- How a user can best utilize Maven repository
Location: Room 301
Topics: Development tools, Java development, JBoss Community projects, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 8:00 pm - 8:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |