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.
Hadoop on Red Hat Storage Server: A Reference Architecture
Stephen Watt — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
Red Hat Storage Server is a data management solution that provides a highly available, POSIX-compliant, multi-datacenter, scalable distributed file system.
Apache Hadoop is newly supported as an official storage resident application within Red Hat Storage Server. This allows Hadoop workloads to take advantage of data locality and many other features provided by Red Hat Storage Server.
In this session, Stephen Watt will describe various Hadoop use cases supported with Red Hat Storage Server, as well as use cases that are now available as part of a technology preview. He will conclude with a detailed explanation and demonstration of deploying Apache Hadoop on top of Red Hat Storage Server.
Location: Room 210
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Red Hat Storage Server, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Application and platform infrastructure
This track features the developers who write the code, the solution architects who work in the field, and the product managers who contribute to product direction. Example topics include: technology overviews, roadmaps, and deep dives, deployment techniques, performance optimization, and system management. Attendees will learn how to increase performance and scalability, implement security policies, meet service level agreements, and more effectively manage deployments.
Red Hat Storage Server: Use Cases & Roadmap
Sayan Saha — Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat
Rich Fortier — Vice President, Software Engineering, Red Hat
At last year’s Red Hat Summit, the company launched Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 following its acquisition of Gluster in the fall of 2011. Built upon GlusterFS 3.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, Red Hat Storage Server was Red Hat’s first integrated product that provided scale-out, software-based storage for unstructured and big data.
In this session, Rich Fortier and Sayan Saha will share Red Hat Storage Server’s roadmap, providing a look into the solution’s future technology direction. They will also provide insight into Red Hat’s software-defined storage platform plans and detailed use cases.
This session will give attendees an opportunity to share their perspectives with senior business and technical leaders from the Red Hat Storage team, helping to shape the future of Red Hat Storage.
Location: Room 304
Topics: Big data, Red Hat Storage Server
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 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 |
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 |
Red Hat Storage & Big Data
Scott McClellan — Senior Director, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Doug Williams — Senior Director, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Red Hat understands the big challenge of big data. In this session, join Scott McClellan and Doug Williams as they review Red Hat’s ideas, plans, and activities in the world of big data as it pertains to Red Hat Storage Server and other Red Hat products. Be sure not to miss this one! There’s no doubt you’ll be glued to your seats and will depart the session well educated and excited.
Location: Room 309
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage, Red Hat Storage Server
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and IT strategy alignment | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 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.
Liberate your Files: A Solution from Vizuri using ownCloud, OpenShift, & Red Hat Storage Server
Isaac Christoffersen — Architect, Vizuri
Matt Richards — Product Strategist, ownCloud
Ted Brunell — Solution Architect, Red Hat
Many of today’s enterprises are working under the false assumption that there is a trade off between consumer-centric file sharing and corporate IT policy compliance. This assumption is common because market-leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for file syncing and sharing are not designed around enterprise IT needs. They represent growing risks with vendor lock-in, data security, compliance, and data ownership.
Fortunately, by leveraging innovative open source solutions from Red Hat and ownCloud, enterprises can provide a simple-to-use file syncing and sharing solution for employees. And this solution enables enterprises to have greater control over valuable intellectual property.
In this session, representatives from Vizuri, ownCloud, and Red Hat will:
- Identify the risks involved with public cloud-based solutions
- Share use cases for private cloud solutions
- Discuss how hybrid and on-premise solutions are both achievable and secure.
Vizuri will demonstrate a hybrid cloud file-sync and share SaaS solution, designed using OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, ownCloud, and Red Hat Storage Server, that delivers an integrated mobile, desktop, and web-based solution.
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Mobile, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenShift Origin, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Storage, Red Hat Storage Server, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 1.0 / 5.0 |
Community and partner ecosystem
This track showcases community leaders and their innovative upstream work, as well as the certified commercial solutions that the Red Hat partner ecosystem brings to market. Attendees will also gain a better understanding of the value of a Red Hat subscription and learn how to extract the maximum value from their investments.
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 |
Market perceptions and competition
This track covers the datacenter landscape. Example topics include: product comparisons, open source methodology, and product analysis that debunks common misconceptions. Attendees will learn how Red Hat cloud, middleware, operating system, storage, and virtualization products stack up against proprietary offerings and fit within the broader industry landscape.
Choose Your Own Path to the Cloud with Red Hat
Gordon Haff — Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat
There’s no single approach to building a cloud as IT teams aren’t trying to solve the exact same problem. That’s why Red Hat products are designed to work together to modernize your infrastructure and deliver the flexibility and agility promised by cloud computing.
In this session, Gordon Haff will provide examples of how Red Hat customers are using the company’s product portfolio to build clouds. These will include in-production examples that require cloud readiness and massive scalibility from Red Hat Storage Server and an example of using OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux together.
Attendees will learn about a combination of case studies and use cases that demonstrate practical cloud solutions that use one or more Red Hat products. Learn how Red Hat technology can make you cloud ready!
Location: Room 313
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Flexibility, GlusterFS, Interoperability, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Performance, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Storage Server, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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: Solving Storage Challenges with Red Hat Storage Server
Mohit Anchila — Data Platform Architect, Intuit, Inc.
Wayde Nie — Lead Architect University Technology Services, McMasters University
Want to learn how Red Hat solutions can turn storage from a burden into an asset? Join us to hear directly from Red Hat Storage Server customers who are using our innovative open source software solutions in creative deployment scenarios. Learn how using Red Hat Storage Server and its core architecture have enabled these customers to rapidly store, protect, model, and deliver critical data. We will leave plenty of time for questions so you can interact with this panel of knowlegeable experts.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Red Hat Storage, Red Hat Storage Server
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |