Sessions & Labs
Sessions:
Application and data integration
This track provides overview and deep dive sessions that cover the products, features, and technologies for datacenter modernization and consolidation. Example topics include: storage migration, performance optimization, management of data in distributed applications, and middleware integration. Attendees will learn how to enable lines of business to rapidly respond to business events in an automated manner, automate rules-driven business processes, and integrate applications, data, and embedded devices across all cloud environments.
Mainframe & Database Legacy Modernization
Emily Brand — Services Delivery Manager, Red Hat
In this session, attendees will learn how to properly plan a legacy modernization, including learning how to manage each step in regards to the database layer without causing new and old applications to dramatically change. This session will also include a demonstration that covers:
- How to easily create views that applications can access via Java applications during new development
- How to replace legacy databases with modern databases in these views when necessary
- Why data services and data tiers are not only necessary, but highly scalable in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment
Location: Room 210
Topics: Big data, Development tools, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Connect Applications Everywhere with Red Hat JBoss A-MQ
Robert Davies — Director, Software Engineering, Red Hat
As part of the FuseSource acquisition, Red Hat now supports Apache ActiveMQ as the recently released Red Hat JBoss A-MQ product.
ActiveMQ is the most widely used message-oriented middleware that uses messaging to connect remote applications written in Java, C/C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, and many other languages. ActiveMQ is standards based and supports messaging protocols such as AMQP 1.0, WebSockets, Stomp, OpenWire, and MQTT.
In this session, Robert Davies will discuss the product’s features and functionality, and will share best practices to increase performance and scalability.
Location: Room 210
Topics: Performance, Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
Red Hat Storage Server: Best Practices & Advanced Configurations
Peter Portante — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ben England — Performance Engineer, Red Hat
This talk builds on the “Best Practices for Red Hat Storage Server Performance” session (Thurs. at 4:50 p.m. EST) to explore design tradeoffs and performance implications for advanced use cases. Use cases include geo-replication, OpenStack Swift compatible Object store, and live virtual image stores including KVM-based virtualization such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) and Red Hat Open Stack (RHOS).
Location: Room 210
Topics: Clustering, GlusterFS, Integration, OpenStack, Performance, Red Hat Storage, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and data integration | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Application and platform infrastructure
This track features the developers who write the code, the solution architects who work in the field, and the product managers who contribute to product direction. Example topics include: technology overviews, roadmaps, and deep dives, deployment techniques, performance optimization, and system management. Attendees will learn how to increase performance and scalability, implement security policies, meet service level agreements, and more effectively manage deployments.
Red Hat 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 |
Linux File Systems: Enabling Cutting-edge Features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7
Steve Dickson — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ric Wheeler — Senior Manager, Software Engineer, Red Hat
File and storage systems are the foundation of most enterprise users. In this session, Steve Dickson and Ric Wheeler will present the new features in recent releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and those expected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. They will provide an overview of new storage management tools and detail file system highlights, including updates about the:
- NFS stack to support Parallel NFS (pNFS)
- XFS file system, which offers up to 500TB in a single file system instance
- Btrfs file system status
Location: Room 302
Topics: Manageability, Performance, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Performance Analysis & Tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Part I
D. John Shakshober — Senior Consulting Engineer, Red Hat
Larry Woodman — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
Bill Gray — Software Performance Engineer, Red Hat
Jeremy Eder — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
In the first hour of this two-hour session, attendees will explore the system performance analysis and tuning necessary to maximumize the performance of systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. In the first hour (part I), attendees will examine the effects of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures in today’s x86_64 server systems.
Session attendees will:
- Explain how to analyze system performance using several performance analysis tools like lscpu, lstopo, perf and numastat (which has been enhanced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 to show per-NUMA-node distributions of processes and memory)
- Explain how to manage and optimize applications in NUMA environments using manual tools like numactl and automated tools like numad for bare metal and KVM virtual environments
- Share how NUMA-optimization capabilities are being merged into Linux upstream for Fedora and future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Location: Room 304
Topics: Cost savings, Manageability, Performance, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Performance
Mark Wagner — Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat
In this session that covers the performance and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Mark Wagner will:
- Demonstrate how to take advantage of the key performance areas of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- Review data and tuning information that was discovered in Red Hat’s performance lab
- Discuss Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Storage integration
- Review techniques for migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Location: Room 304
Topics: GlusterFS, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
Best Practices for Red Hat Storage Server Performance
Ben England — Performance Engineer, Red Hat
In this session, Ben England will discuss the tuning options available for Red hat Storage software components, as well as the product’s scalability strengths and limitations. Attendees will learn how to:
- Clearly express performance requirements for their applications
- Provide the right application storage, compute, and network resources to meet their performance requirements
- Quickly identify and isolate performance bottlenecks
Location: Room 302
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Performance, Red Hat Storage, Scalability
| 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 |
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.
Hibernate & Data Access: State of the Union
Emmanuel Bernard — Data Platform Architect, Red Hat
In this session, attendees will learn about the data access and retrieval technologies available in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Web Framework Kit. They will discover:
- New and less-well-known features in Hibernate ORM like multi-tenancy, historical data, and auditing
- How to access MongoDB, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, the upstream Infinispan product, and other NoSQL technologies with Hibernate OGM
- How to add state-of-the-art full-text and geospatial searches to your applications
After this session, attendees will be able to add new features to their applications and discover new ways to extract value from their data.
Location: Room 208
Topics: BPM, Clustering, Development tools, Java development, Performance, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Create Engaging User Experiences with Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform
Divya Mehra — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Thomas Heute — Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform is the presentation layer that enables you to aggregate data and applications from diverse sources into engaging experiences for your customers, partners, and employees. The platform features include: a standards-based portal container, Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), single sign-on integration, and the Portlet Bridge.
In this session, Divya Mehra and Thomas Heute will present the latest Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform features, such as SAML 2.0, mobile, CDI, and OAuth support, diving deeper into selected topics.
Location: Room 207
Topics: Flexibility, Integration, Java development, Performance, Portability, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Examining & Increasing Java Application Performance
Omair Majid — Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jonathan VanAlten — Software Engineer, Red Hat
Because Java applications are getting larger and more complex, it’s becoming hard to tell what’s going on across the entire Java and operating system stack. Which threads are taking up all the CPU? What’s using up the memory? How often is the virtual machine pausing to run GC? How do I examine this application in its current environment?
The Thermostat project, recently initiated by Red Hat, is an open source tool that helps developers answer these questions by allowing examination of different aspects of local and remote programs.
In this session, Omair Majid and Jon VanAlten, two Thermostat developers, will demonstrate how to use Thermostat to identify and examine performance-related problems in Java programs. Attendees will also learn how they can extend Thermostat to add new capabilities useful for examining their own applications.
Location: Room 208
Topics: Flexibility, Java development, Performance, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid & the Hibernate Suite: A Love Affair
Sanne Grinovero — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Hibernate, a JBoss Community project, is the world’s most successful object relational mapper (ORM). Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, which is based on the JBoss Community project Infinispan, is a high-performance, transactional key/value store. These two very different technologies are pillars of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6; and there are many ways to mix them in an endless combination of configurations.
In this session, Sanne Grinovero, will discuss a few of the most effective ways these components have been integrated to solve real-world problems, including smarter caching, hybrid data stores, and state-of-the-art full-text and information extraction. He will also preview the future of Hibernate object grid mapper (OGM).
Location: Room 208
Topics: Big data, BPM, Clustering, Cost savings, Flexibility, Java development, JBoss Community projects, OpenShift by Red Hat, Performance, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 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 |
Replication Between Datacenters with Red Hat JBoss Data Grid
Bela Ban — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat
The datacenters of today’s global businesses are often located in various sites around the world. And in order to help ensure their safety, the data is often replicated both within sites and between sites. This cross-site replication is challenging as links between sites are often bandwidth constrained and have high latency.
In this session, Bela Ban will provide an overview of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid’s cross-site replication functionality, which stores data redundantly across multiple sites. He will also briefly discuss architecture and configuration.
For the majority of the session, Bela will demonstrate the product’s response to two scenarios: 1) site failure (where he’ll kill a site) and 2) follow-the-sun (where he’ll demonstrate a graceful failover from one site to another). In both cases, attendees will see that client failover from one site to another site is achieved while the data is still available.
Attendees are encouraged to fire up their own clients, create some data, and verify that their data is preserved across site failures during the session. They will leave the session with a better understanding of what cross-site clustering is and how to configure and run it, as well as Red Hat and JBoss Community plans for the future of xsite replication.
Location: Room 207
Topics: Big data, Clustering, Performance, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 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.
Deploying Enterprise-wide BPM on Wall Street
Vamsi Chemitiganti — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
In this session, Vamsi Chemitiganti will detail the journey a financial services enterprise took to adopt, enhance, and deploy Red Hat JBoss BRMS across a suite of critical applications in capital, compliance, and retail banking areas. Vamsi will discuss:
- Enhancements made to the engine in terms of BAM and KPI capabilities
- Design and development best practices
- BPM advantages, including embeddability, efficiency, and ease of deployment
Location: Room 309
Topics: BPM, Cost savings, Flexibility, Java development, Performance, Portability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and IT strategy alignment | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Defining the Future with Red Hat Storage Geo-replication
Mohit Anchlia — Data Platform Architect, Intuit
Dustin Black — Senior Technical Account Manager, Red Hat
Red Hat Storage provides a high-performance and scalable network-attached storage (NAS) solution to meet demanding workload needs without requiring high costs or over purchasing. Often when the world is introduced to such a novel technology, the best of us get creative, finding use cases that others may never have envisioned. So what happens when your grand vision seems unsupportable?
Join the chief architect, Mohit Anchlia, from Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, and Red Hat’s Dustin Black, and as they explore the successful partnership that solved a challenging problem in record time. Attendees will get a first-hand account of:
- The business challenges and how Red Hat Storage became an integral part of the solution architecture
- Intuit’s unique scenario and how GlusterFS geo-replication was transformed to meet aggressive business requirements
- How Intuit’s strategic decision to partner with Red Hat, including the engagement of a storage-focused Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM), led to an entirely new and supportable codebase that drastically increased the performance and capabilities of geo-replication
In a few short months of engagement with Red Hat Global Support Services, Intuit and Red Hat not only exceeded the business and technical requirements, but drastically altered the landscape of the upstream code for the benefit of the open source community and the future Red Hat Storage users. Come learn how.
Location: Room 309
Topics: Cost savings, Performance, Red Hat Global Support Services (GSS), Red Hat Storage, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and IT strategy alignment | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 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.
Introduction to Red Hat OpenStack
Chuck Dubuque — Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Red Hat
Gerry Riveros — Senior Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Red Hat has contributed to OpenStack for more than a year, and is committed to releasing a commercial product based on the project. In this session, Chuck Dubuque and Gerry Riveros will provide an overview of Red Hat OpenStack and detail:
- How Red Hat OpenStack is different from community distributions
- Red Hat’s OpenStack strategy
- Where OpenStack fits in an open hybrid cloud infrastructure (spanning datacenter virtualization, private, and public cloud)
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Flexibility, OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 1.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
DreamWorks Animation’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Selection: Why, How, & Benefits Realized
Greg Bulman — Senior Systems Administrator, DreamWorks Animation
Chris Van Tuin — Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Red Hat
As a result of its rapidly expanding business, Dreamworks Animation faced several IT challenges in 2010, including the need to:
- Increase its server base to support new initiatives
- Increase its build farm base
- Increase its development and test environments to complement production environments
- Expand into the cloud
DreamWorks selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to address these challenges. And in this session, Greg Bulman from DreamWorks will share the company’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization story, discussing:
- Why DreamWorks selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- The company’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization architecture, which spans across the globe
- Tuning information
- How DreamWorks leverages the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization SDK to provide a fully featured CLI and integration into automation tools
- Lessons learned from three years of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization experience
- DreamWork’s future virtualization plans
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
OpenShift Deep Dive: Running a Large, Public PaaS
Mike McGrath — Principal OpenShift Architect, Red Hat
OpenShift Online, Red Hat’s hosted PaaS offering, continues to grow along with the applications it supports, which are growing more sophisticated and demanding additional resources. In this session, Mike McGrath will detail what it takes to manage an environment like this and help connect the dots between Red Hat’s public OpenShift Online offering and its private, on-premise offering, OpenShift Enterprise.
In addition, Mike will discuss how to create a successful hybrid model between a private enterprise with traditional computing resources and a public PaaS. He will explain how to utilize both environments securely as demand requires it or as a transition is required from private hosting to public hosting.
Specifically, Mike will discuss:
- OpenShift architecture
- Capacity planning
- Performance tuning
- Monitoring and automated recovery techniques
- Common problems
- Hybrid cloud computing
- Creating custom cartridges
Location: Room 310
Topics: Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Interoperability, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud readiness | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
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 |
Creating Application-aware Business Services with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Ranjit Nair — Principal Technical Product Manager, Symantec
Symantec’s availability products, including VCS and ApplicationHA, along with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enable enterprise-class high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions for multi-tier, mission-critical applications running across virtual machines (VMs).
In this session, Symantec’s Ranjit Nair will discuss how to create a business service consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-based VMs. He will also discuss how to configure and manage:
- HA for VMs using Veritas Cluster Server
- Fault recovery for the business service
- Dependencies between different application tiers running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VMs
- Campus cluster HA for the business service
- DR for the business service
- HA for business-critical applications running inside VMs
- The orchestration of site failovers using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VCS
Location: Room 209
Topics: Clustering, Flexibility, Interoperability, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Built on FlexPod & NetApp Integration
Jon Benedict — Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
Chris Morrissey — Software Engineer, NetApp
Karthik Nagalingam — Reference Architect, NetApp
Ian Pilcher — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Greg Pryzby — Principal Consultant, Red Hat
In this session, Jon Benedict, Karthik Nagalingam, and Ian Pilcher will provide a deep dive into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization built on FlexPod. The FlexPod datacenter solution is a pre-validated design that provides predictable scaling and performance. Jon, Karthik, and Ian will explain what this means for admins, engineers, and IT decision makers, highlighting the benefits, the design, performance characteristics, and sizing in the context of virtualizing Oracle 11g RAC.
In addition, Jon and Chris Morrissey will demonstrate the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This integrated tool takes advantage of the plug-in framework available with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 and allows IT administrators to discover and provision NetApp storage directly from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Additonally, VSC for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also allows NFS-based virtual machines to be rapidly cloned from the storage array.
Location: Room 209
Topics: Clustering, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
IT efficiency
This track features how-to (step-by-step) sessions that describe aligning the activities relating to people, processes, and technologies with long-term business objectives. Example topics include: management, optimization, and reporting. Attendees will learn about practical, proven solutions that will help them meet tomorrow's business demands.
Using Red Hat Network Satellite Today & Into the Future
Thomas Cameron — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
Alice Cockrum — Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Todd Warner — Product Manager, Systems Management, Red Hat
Red Hat Network Satellite has been successfully managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in traditional datacenters – from small, local deployments to vast, mission-critical infrastructures – since 2002. In this session, Thomas Cameron, Alice Cockrum, and Todd Warner will discuss the future direction of Red Hat Network Satellite. They will also explain how to build next-generation technology into Red Hat Network Satellite with a focus on hyper-scale computing beyond the datacenter.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network Automation & Scripting
Brian Ashburn — Middleware Solution Architect, Red Hat
Many customers are moving from IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as their primary application server. To do this, customers must convert operational processes from automating WebSphere or WebLogic to automating Red Hat JBoss Operations Network.
In this session, attendees will learn about automation and scripting with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network and will discuss:
- The types of scripting and automation commonly used when customers move from WebSphere to Red Hat JBoss Middleware
- Techniques for automating Red Hat JBoss Operation Network through the command line interface (CLI) and the REST interface
- How to use alerts within Red Hat JBoss Operations Network to perform actions and automate complex IT processes
Following this session, attendees should be able to write scripts for creating new resources (e.g., datasources, Java Message Service queues and topics, and Java Connector Architecture adapters) through Red Hat JBoss Operations Network. They should also be able to add alerts for performing actions based on events occurring in their environments.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 5.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
Middleware Platforms for Integration & BPM: A Product Comparison
Richard Naszcyniec — Senior Principal Program Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Customers of various sizes use the deep technical capabilities of Red Hat JBoss Middleware for integration and business process management (BPM). Are you looking to establish, expand, or standardize the middleware used for integration and BPM? Do you face the challenge of comparing and contrasting vendors to determine the best fit for your needs?
In this session, Richard Naszcyniec will discuss the strengths of Red Hat JBoss Middleware platforms for integration and BPM, and compare them to other middleware offerings. He will also detail several of the functional and economic advantages specific to each platform. Solutions addressed will include:
- Red Hat JBoss BRMS
- Red Hat JBoss A-MQ
- Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Location: Room 313
Topics: BPM, Cost savings, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Middleware Platforms for Application Development: A Product Comparison
Richard Naszcyniec — Senior Principal Program Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Customers who want to establish, expand, or standardize their middleware use for application development must compare vendors to determine the best fit. In this session, Richard Naszcyniec will offer competitive comparison data in order to help you evaluate a suite of Red Hat application development offerings, including:
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
- Red Hat JBoss Data Grid
- Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Migrating 1,000 VMs from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: A Case Study
Tomas Von Veschler — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
While many IT leaders visualize and plan for virtualization migrations, not everyone has seen what they entail from start to finish. In this session, Tomas Von Veschler will detail a VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization migration that was accomplished at a government agency. He will provide the motivations for migration, architecture decisions, key findings, virtual-to-virtual (V2V) process, challenges met, benefits gained, and post-migration analysis.
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Hypervisor Technology Comparison & Migration
Bhavna Sarathy — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Karen Noel — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Selecting the right virtualization solution for today’s modern datacenter is more complex than ever. And because server virtualization is a maturing, dynamic market, it includes factors at play that can result in datacenter migrations.
Today’s hypervisor technologies include: Citrix Xen, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Microsoft HyperV, and VMware ESX. The KVM hypervisor supports the largest x86 virtual machine, with industry-leading performance and an innovative architecture that benefits from the enhancements made to the Linux host. In addition, KVM hypervisor is well suited to run mission-critical applications in virtualized environments, utilizing the resource management and security features built within the products. KVM hypervisor is the foundational technology that powers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, a complete, open source virtualization solution.
In this session, Bhavna Sarathy and Karen Noel will compare the leading hypervisor technologies and demonstrate a seamless Xen to KVM migration.
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Taste of training
Red Hat Summit will have a Taste of training track focusing on a sampling from our robust training and consulting services that we offer on both an individual and team basis.
OpenStack: Core Components & Capabilities
Bowe Strickland — Curriculum Manager, Red Hat
OpenStack complements Red Hat’s cloud products by enabling enterprises and service providers to build an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. In this session, Bowe Strickland will introduce OpenStack’s core components and capabilities. Additionally, attendees will gain hands on experience performing basic tasks in a live OpenStack environment.
Location: Room 206
Topics: Cloud deployment, OpenStack, Red Hat Training, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
The road ahead
This track features sessions covering the trends and strategies driving the future of enterprise computing. Example topics include: big data, mobile, enterprise storage for the datacenter and cloud environments, and intelligent systems. Attendees will be among the first to know about what's coming from Red Hat and how to better plan for shifts in the IT landscape.
OpenShift PaaS Overview & Roadmap
Matt Hicks — Managing Principal Architect, Red Hat
Juan Noceda — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
With OpenShift, Red Hat established an open source, market-leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform. In this session, Matt Hicks and Juan Noceda will discuss the business and technical cases for PaaS, detail what makes OpenShift a unique offering in this space, and preview the exciting developments planned for OpenShift’s future.
Matt and Juan will also:
- Discuss OpenShift basics
- Provide details about how it works
- Detail OpenShift’s latest features, including its multitenancy and security enhancements
- Demonstrate how OpenShift enables the developer to decide how to interact and utilize the PaaS solution
Don’t let us hold you back, come build your own!
Location: Room 311
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Development tools, Flexibility, Java development, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenShift Origin, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
Network Virtualization & Software-defined Networking
Chris Wright — Technical Director Software-Defined Networking, Red Hat
Enterprise datacenter virtualization and cloud computing have put new pressures on the network. Traditionally, virtual compute workloads gained access to the network through simple hypervisor resident virtual switches bridging to physical VLANs. As these workloads scale in the cloud and move dynamically throughout the datacenter, the limits of a simple VLAN solution are stressed.
In this session, Chris Wright will look at new protocols and encapsulations like OpenFlow and VXLAN, new technologies such as Open vSwitch, and new concepts such as the software-defined network controller. He will examine how these innovations work together to reshape networking in the virtual datacenter.
Location: Room 311
Topics: Cloud deployment, Manageability, OpenStack, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| The road ahead | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Town hall
This track features moderated panels of Red Hat customers, partners, and solution experts. Example topics include: real world deployments, best practices, and lessons learned. Attendees will learn competitive advantages for driving increased business value.
Red Hat IT Relies on Red Hat Solutions: Drinking Our Own Champagne
Host:
Rajeev Jaswal — Director of Product and Customer Systems, Red Hat
In this panel, Red Hat IT team leaders will discuss how Red Hat products and other open source solutions are selected and used in house to support our growing business. Rajeev Jaswal, Red Hat’s director of product and customer systems, will lead this interactive panel, which will give attendees the opportunity to ask questions about how Red Hat IT best serves its customers: Red Hat associates.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Establishing a Secure, Reliable & Optimal Infrastructure
JR Aquino — Senior Information Security Specialist, Citrix
Joseph Bezouska — Lead UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer, OfficeMax
Addam Krucek — Senior Staff Engineer, Shared Systems Platforms, Motorola
Jennie F. Lansang — Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation
Enterprise businesses rely on Red Hat solutions to address critical business demands facing IT organizations. Hear how they use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat solutions to scale their IT architectures. Learn best practices directly from Red Hat customers and see how these products help ensure secure, reliable infrastructures.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Cloud deployment, Clustering, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Hot Off the Press: Top Journalists on Today's Tech Trends
Host:
Technology reporters and bloggers are at the center of the industry’s hottest topics and discussions. In this panel, four journalists tracking the technology industry will discuss popular topics and emerging issues facing today’s IT leaders. They will cover Linux, cloud computing, virtualization, middleware, storage, and more. The group will address questions from a moderator and from audience attendees.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Portability, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Gaining Competitive Advantages with Red Hat Solutions
John Fulton — Lafayette College
Rodrique Heron — Cigna
Steven Leapline — Ansaldo
Ron Schaffer — Ansaldo
Greg Scott — Infrasupport Corporation
Robert Starr — Cigna
Engage with Red Hat customers who are virtualizing their IT infrastructures with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to reduce costs, scale with business growth, and maintain high-performing systems. Enterprise businesses across a variety of industries and sectors rely on Red Hat products and solutions to address the critical business demands facing IT organizations today. Learn best practices and see how Red Hat solutions can give your business a competitive advantage.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Interoperability, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Storage, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
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| 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
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| Town hall | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Building Next-generation Applications Today
Sanjay Attada — Director, Enterprise Services, Scholastic
Josh Clements — Application Development Manager, AAA
David Dennis — Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, GroundWork
Oksana Shtuka — Infrastructure Engineer Manager, Cigna
Join Red Hat customers for a diverse discussion about building next-generation applications in the real world. Learn why these companies turned to Red Hat, and discover how open source solutions can give your business a competitive advantage today. This panel will provide interactive and applicable content, with time allotted for questions during and after the presentation.
Location: Room 306
Topics: BPM, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
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| Town hall | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Birds of a Feather
Implementing New Open Source Tools for Collaboration & Security
Chris Stierle — Senior Manager, IT Advanced Communications Services, Red Hat
Jay Madison — Director, IT Information Security, Red Hat
Red Hat IT has two major open source projects in the works: 1) its openUC collaboration system and 2) its new two-factor authentication solution, Lin OTP. With these offerings, Red Hat is bringing its customers, Red Hat associates, improved collaboration choices, better security, and increased flexibility. Red Hat IT initiated these projects with open source solutions and cost savings in mind, but with a host of other considerations at play. In both cases, Red Hat is implementing solutions that contribute positively to its bottom line, while also building the open source culture.
Join us for this birds of a feather session, to hear Chris Stierle discuss openUC and Jay Madison talk about Lin OTP. Chris and Jay will discuss the catalysts for these projects, the joys and challenges their teams have faced, what’s ahead for their areas, and how organizations can think creatively about employing open source solutions.
Location: Room 305
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
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| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 7:00 pm - 7:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Platform Needs Middleware & Middleware Needs Platform
Brian Likosar — Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
Joel Tosi — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Java developers and system administrators have the same goal – to deliver value to their customers and their companies. Some of us create the environment, keeping it stable, secure, and performant. While others of us create the software that our users ultimately interact with.
As enterprise Java developers, we write our code and maybe help with some JVM tuning. For the most part, a different person or group is responsible for the platform our code, container, and applications run on. As Java developers, it would be valuable to understand how to better tune, debug, and secure our systems.
As system administrators, we are happy running an operating system… but what’s the deal with these applications running in it? Why does it always seem like Java is leaking memory? What sort of tuning can we do in the operating system to help their applications perform better?
Join this birds of a feather session to get the answers to these questions, as well as discuss message logs, SELinux, iptables, networking, system constraints, and cgroups. This session is designed to have both sides of the environment working together to get a better understanding of tools and concepts that can help us in delivering great solutions.
Location: Room 305
Topics: Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Reliability, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
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| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 8:00 pm - 8:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |