Sessions & Labs
Sessions:
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 |
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 |
Under the Hood of OpenShift, Turbocharged by Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ian Pilcher — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Christopher Alfonso — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Daniel Walsh — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Enterprise-class cloud computing must provide effective isolation of workloads to ensure security and performance. In most cloud environments, the virtualization layer is the primary provider of these capabilities; but virtualization has limitations in areas such as granularity, performance, and ISV support.
OpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, makes it possible to run thousands of applications for multiple users on a single virtual machine (or physical server) while ensuring secure separation of compute resources.
In this session, attendees will explore the features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that enable OpenShift to achieve secure, performant multi-tenancy within a single operating system instance (including: SELinux, cgroups, and Linux container technology (namespaces)).
This session will be of interest to those who want an in-depth understanding of OpenShift and those who need to manage the performance and security of multiple workloads (including virtual machines) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Cloud deployment, Flexibility, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Reliability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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 |
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.
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 |
Securing Applications with PicketLink
Pete Muir — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Shane Bryzak — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Security is the cornerstone of your application’s integrity and, consequently, you need to weave it throughout each layer, often in diverse ways. PicketLink, a JBoss Community project, allows you to evolve the security model of your application over time, keeping pace with the development cycle.
With PicketLink, you can start with a very simple configuration that applies an exclusive security blanket over the application, keeping out guests and establishing a basic identity for the user. You can then gradually mature the security infrastructure by adopting PicketLink’s declarative approach for defining fine-grained authorization rules that enforce contextual restrictions at the level of database records, database fields, object fields, and UI fragments. And PicketLink IDM provides a comprehensive, pluggable identity management solution that enables you to manage your users and roles.
In this session, PicketLink experts will demonstrate how to use PicketLink to secure your web application. They will do so by showcasing TicketMonster, an online ticket broker that provides access to events via an online booking application.
Location: Room 207
Topics: Development tools, Java development, Portability, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application development | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Business and IT strategy alignment
This track targets the juncture of business and IT considerations necessary to create competitive advantage. Example topics include: new architecture deployments, competitive differentiators, long-term and hidden costs, and security. Attendees will learn how to align architecture and technology decisions with their specific business needs and how and when IT departments should drive competitive advantage.
War Stories from the Cloud: Lessons from US Defense Agencies
Ted Brunell — Solution Architect, Red Hat
Join this session to learn how the transformation to virtualized- and cloud-based services is shaping the defense industry. In this session, decision-makers and policy-makers from the U.S. Army and independent defense agencies will share information about the new IT architectures taking shape. Their conversation will center around the use of Red Hat’s technologies and open hybrid cloud vision, and how they are shaping the next generation of data services. They will discuss:
- The benefits of cloud computing and an open approach
- Developing and deploying applications in a secure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment with OpenShift by Red Hat
- What role virtualization plays as the government moves to the cloud
- How APIs can be used to create unique solutions for challenging requirements
- Building open hybrid Infrastructure-as-Service (IaaS) clouds
Location: Room 309
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Storage, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and IT strategy alignment | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Cloud readiness
This track covers the changing concepts and implications of moving workloads to the cloud. Example topics include: data migration, consumption models, operational approaches, and management frameworks. Attendees will gain insight into cloud-readiness for their IT infrastructures and businesses, and learn how to maintain control, security, and compliance when moving to hybrid cloud operational models.
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 |
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.
GlusterFS Internals & Roadmap
Vijay Bellur — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jeff Darcy — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
John Mark Walker — Director of Communities, Red Hat
GlusterFS is a distributed file system that can scale to several petabytes, runs on commodity hardware, and aggregates storage capacity from various servers. In this session, Jeff Darcy, Vijay Bellur, and John Walker will preview new features in GlusterFS 3.4 and provide the project’s roadmap, discussing future features. In addition, they will detail the:
- GlusterFS translator framework
- Process for developing new translators
- Key algorithms used.
- Recent developments, including syncop framework, libgfapi, and glupy
Location: Room 209
Topics: Big data, Clustering, Fedora, GlusterFS, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Built on FlexPod & NetApp Integration
Jon Benedict — Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
Chris Morrissey — Software Engineer, NetApp
Karthik Nagalingam — Reference Architect, NetApp
Ian Pilcher — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Greg Pryzby — Principal Consultant, Red Hat
In this session, Jon Benedict, Karthik Nagalingam, and Ian Pilcher will provide a deep dive into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization built on FlexPod. The FlexPod datacenter solution is a pre-validated design that provides predictable scaling and performance. Jon, Karthik, and Ian will explain what this means for admins, engineers, and IT decision makers, highlighting the benefits, the design, performance characteristics, and sizing in the context of virtualizing Oracle 11g RAC.
In addition, Jon and Chris Morrissey will demonstrate the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This integrated tool takes advantage of the plug-in framework available with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 and allows IT administrators to discover and provision NetApp storage directly from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Additonally, VSC for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also allows NFS-based virtual machines to be rapidly cloned from the storage array.
Location: Room 209
Topics: Clustering, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
IT efficiency
This track features how-to (step-by-step) sessions that describe aligning the activities relating to people, processes, and technologies with long-term business objectives. Example topics include: management, optimization, and reporting. Attendees will learn about practical, proven solutions that will help them meet tomorrow's business demands.
Using Red Hat Network Satellite Today & Into the Future
Thomas Cameron — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
Alice Cockrum — Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Todd Warner — Product Manager, Systems Management, Red Hat
Red Hat Network Satellite has been successfully managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in traditional datacenters – from small, local deployments to vast, mission-critical infrastructures – since 2002. In this session, Thomas Cameron, Alice Cockrum, and Todd Warner will discuss the future direction of Red Hat Network Satellite. They will also explain how to build next-generation technology into Red Hat Network Satellite with a focus on hyper-scale computing beyond the datacenter.
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Managing Red Hat JBoss Middleware
Charles Crouch — Development Manager, Red Hat
Alan Santos — Product Manager, Red Hat
Are you responsible for managing Red Hat JBoss Middleware at your organization? For the lifecycle of deployed applications or services? To meet service levels or compliance requirements?
In this session, Alan Santos and Charles Crouch will describe how to effectively manage those requirements, and will provide:
- An overview of the management options available
- The relationship between Red Hat JBoss Operations Network and other Red Hat management offerings
- The roadmap for Red Hat JBoss Operations Network and management capabilities in the core application server
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Manageability, Portability, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Network Satellite Power User Tips & Tricks: System Deployment
Thomas Cameron — Chief Solution Architect, Red Hat
Red Hat Network Satellite Server is a powerful, flexible systems management solution for deploying, managing, monitoring, and redeploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Network Satellite allows users to decrease administrative costs and increase the time available for strategic tasks by performing single operations through the web user interface. These single operations can affect some or all of the user’s servers.
In this session, Thomas Cameron will explore the most useful Red Hat Network Satellite tips and tricks, which were developed by the Red Hat Systems Management subject matter expert team for deploying new systems. He will discuss:
- Configuration management and configuration macros
- System groups
- Custom and cloned channels
- Activation keys
- Kickstart
- Locked channels
- Deploying third-party or internally developed software
Location: Room 312
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Managing SELinux in the Enterprise
Daniel Walsh — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
How do you manage SELinux in a large environment? Set up alternative labelling? Turn on booleans? Monitor setroubleshoot logs? Install custom policy modules?
In this session, Daniel Walsh will explain how you can configure your local machine and export its content to multiple machines, using tools like Red Hat Network Satellite, RPM, Puppet, and Ansible. He will also explain how to:
- Configure SELinux out of the box using Kickstart
- Set up an MLS/LSPP system
- Configure SELinux-confined users using IDM/FreeIPA and standard LDAP
- Set up SELinux infrastructure within your environment
- Set up reporting tools
Location: Room 312
Topics: Fedora, Flexibility, Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT efficiency | Wednesday, June 12 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Market perceptions and competition
This track covers the datacenter landscape. Example topics include: product comparisons, open source methodology, and product analysis that debunks common misconceptions. Attendees will learn how Red Hat cloud, middleware, operating system, storage, and virtualization products stack up against proprietary offerings and fit within the broader industry landscape.
Tackling Compliance with Red Hat
Steve Grubb — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jack Rieden — Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Open source software is frequently described as better, faster, more affordable, and more secure than its proprietary counterparts. In addition to being used in regulated environments, Red Hat products make compliance easier.
In this session, two members of Red Hat’s Security Technologies team will discuss the journey of open source code – from the community, to improving security and stability, to become certified for FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria, to helping customers continuously stay compliant with tools like OpenSCAP and industry regulations like PCI-DSS. The team members will also discuss Red Hat’s product certification roadmap and explain how Red Hat collaborates with communities to develop government and industry policy for its products.
Location: Room 309
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Controlling Clouds Beyond Safety
Gordon Haff — Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat
As an industry, we’ve mostly moved on from naive notions about cloud computing being inherently “safe” or “risky.” However, more sophisticated discussions require both greater nuance and greater rigor.
In this session, Red Hat cloud evangelist Gordon Haff will:
- Take attendees through some of the available frameworks for evaluating and mitigating potential issues in hybrid cloud environments
- Discuss key risk factors to consider
- Describe relevant provider certifications
- Show some of the ways that Red Hat’s offerings can help you meet your IT security and governance goals
This is a broad and sometimes complex topic. However, it’s very manageable if individual risk factors are considered systematically and specifically. This session will give attendees the tools and knowledge to make informed decisions.
Location: Room 302
Topics: Cloud deployment, Interoperability, Manageability, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Choose Your Own Path to the Cloud with Red Hat
Gordon Haff — Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat
There’s no single approach to building a cloud as IT teams aren’t trying to solve the exact same problem. That’s why Red Hat products are designed to work together to modernize your infrastructure and deliver the flexibility and agility promised by cloud computing.
In this session, Gordon Haff will provide examples of how Red Hat customers are using the company’s product portfolio to build clouds. These will include in-production examples that require cloud readiness and massive scalibility from Red Hat Storage Server and an example of using OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux together.
Attendees will learn about a combination of case studies and use cases that demonstrate practical cloud solutions that use one or more Red Hat products. Learn how Red Hat technology can make you cloud ready!
Location: Room 313
Topics: Big data, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Flexibility, GlusterFS, Interoperability, Manageability, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Performance, Portability, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Storage Server, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Wednesday, June 12 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Hypervisor Technology Comparison & Migration
Bhavna Sarathy — Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Karen Noel — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Selecting the right virtualization solution for today’s modern datacenter is more complex than ever. And because server virtualization is a maturing, dynamic market, it includes factors at play that can result in datacenter migrations.
Today’s hypervisor technologies include: Citrix Xen, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Microsoft HyperV, and VMware ESX. The KVM hypervisor supports the largest x86 virtual machine, with industry-leading performance and an innovative architecture that benefits from the enhancements made to the Linux host. In addition, KVM hypervisor is well suited to run mission-critical applications in virtualized environments, utilizing the resource management and security features built within the products. KVM hypervisor is the foundational technology that powers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, a complete, open source virtualization solution.
In this session, Bhavna Sarathy and Karen Noel will compare the leading hypervisor technologies and demonstrate a seamless Xen to KVM migration.
Location: Room 313
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market perceptions and competition | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Taste of training
Red Hat Summit will have a Taste of training track focusing on a sampling from our robust training and consulting services that we offer on both an individual and team basis.
Setting Up Red Hat Identity Management
Rob Locke — Curriculum Manager, Training, Red Hat
Red Hat Identity Management is a centralized authentication, identity management, and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud-based enterprise environments. In this session, attendees will be shown how to:
- Install and setup IPA server
- Manage user accounts
- Install and configure IPA client
Location: Room 206
Topics: Manageability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Thursday, June 13 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
SELinux for Immortals
Forrest Taylor — Curriculum Manager, Training, Red Hat
SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) was introduced to the open source world at the end of 2000 and was included in the 2.6.0-test3 kernel and Fedora Core 2. There have been many enhancements to SELinux since that time; and in this session, Forrest Taylor will investigate one of those enhancements: semanage. Semanage is an expanded SELinux technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Attendees will view demonstrations with semanage and explore semanage with hands-on labs and use- cases.
Location: Room 206
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Filesystem Access Control Lists & Special Permissions
Rudolf Kastl — Global Learning Services Curriculum Manager, Red Hat
When controlling access to files on standard Linux file systems, there are scenarios in which the basic file permission mechanisms do not work well meeting real-life requirements. For example, there are instances when files or directories need to be accessible by certain users or groups in ways that are hard to express using the basic permission mechanisms. Sometimes, files created in particular directories should be accessible by particular users or groups by default.
In this session, attendees will learn how to use access control lists (ACLs), usable with the XFS and ext4 file systems most commonly used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to set complex sets of permissions on files and directories. Attendees will also learn:
- Whether ACLs are in use
- ACLs’ effects on file access permission
- The effects of special permissions (e.g., setuid, setgid, and the sticky)
Location: Room 206
Topics: Flexibility, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Begin Programming Your Red Hat Network Satellite Server
George Hacker — Curriculum Manager, Training, Red Hat
Red Hat Network Satellite is a powerful, flexible systems management platform for deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Its underlying database stores software profile, hardware profile, event history, and other systems configuration information about the registered systems it manages.
Red Hat provides a powerful application programming interface (API) that allows a system administrator or programmer to easily access the wealth of information stored in Red Hat Network Satellite Server.
In this session, attendees will learn how to:
- Write simple Red Hat Network Satellite API programs
- Perform queries and write reports using Red Hat Network Satellite API methods
- Use Red Hat Network Satellite API methods for system administration
Location: Room 206
Topics: Development tools, Manageability, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Training, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taste of training | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
The road ahead
This track features sessions covering the trends and strategies driving the future of enterprise computing. Example topics include: big data, mobile, enterprise storage for the datacenter and cloud environments, and intelligent systems. Attendees will be among the first to know about what's coming from Red Hat and how to better plan for shifts in the IT landscape.
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 |
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 |
Secure Development Practices
Host:
Langdon White — Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Evangelist, Red Hat
Panelists:
Josh Bressers — Supervisor, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Matt Newsome — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Norman Mark St. Laurent — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Daniel Walsh — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
This expert panel will include:
- Josh Bressers, an open source security expert for Fedora and Mozilla and the leader of Red Hat’s Product Security team
- Dr. Matt Newsome, leader of the toolchain team at Red Hat
- Norman Mark St. Laurent, senior solution architect on the Red Hat Federal team
- Daniel Walsh of SELinux fame
- Langdon White, moderator and developer of 200+ web applications in the business world
This panel is being reprised, because of its popularity at Red Hat Summit 2012. Attendees are encouraged to prepare and bring questions about writing secure applications.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Development tools, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Thursday, June 13 | 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Optimizing Infrastructures with Red Hat Network Satellite
Mike Dittmeier — IT Integration Specialist, Allegiant Airlines
Bernard Lee — Group Head of IT and VP Process and Innovation, YTL Power
Eric Nothen — Senior IT Analyst, Cargill
Aaron Schaeffer — Systems Engineer, Paychex
Join Red Hat customers to learn more about how they use Red Hat Network Satellite, an easy-to-use systems management platform, for growing their Linux infrastructures and open source environments. Find out how our panelists are managing tens, hundreds – even thousand – of servers as easily as one.
Location: Room 306
Topics: Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Flexibility, Integration, Interoperability, Manageability, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Friday, June 14 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Real-world Perspectives: Building Next-generation Applications Today
Sanjay Attada — Director, Enterprise Services, Scholastic
Josh Clements — Application Development Manager, AAA
David Dennis — Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, GroundWork
Oksana Shtuka — Infrastructure Engineer Manager, Cigna
Join Red Hat customers for a diverse discussion about building next-generation applications in the real world. Learn why these companies turned to Red Hat, and discover how open source solutions can give your business a competitive advantage today. This panel will provide interactive and applicable content, with time allotted for questions during and after the presentation.
Location: Room 306
Topics: BPM, Cloud deployment, Clustering, Cost savings, Development tools, Flexibility, Interoperability, Java development, Manageability, Mobile, Performance, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town hall | Friday, June 14 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Birds of a Feather
Using an Open Source Framework to Catch the Bad Guy
Norman Mark St. Laurent — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gives incident response, forensics examiners, and system administrators easy access to lightweight, easy-to-use tools and techniques that allow them to quickly identify file system modifications, changes, and compromises. The integrity-checking tools that ship with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are open source and packaged with the system.
A host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) provides the data integrity needed to ensure adequate protection of information and system data, and helps meet security requirements and compliance. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, RPM Package Manager and Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) delivers continuous and automated monitoring for security compliance and for implementing the needed security controls for a true “defense-in-depth” approach, enabling built-in forensics, incident response, and security to catch the bad guy.
Attendees will leave this session with a clear understanding of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 audit capabilities. They will also understand the importance of including procedures and hands-on tracking of security-relevant events and configuration to allow for secure, reliable, fine-grained, and configurable requirements. The attendee will gain a fundamental understanding of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for post-mortem analysis, intrusion detection, and live system monitoring.
Location: Room 303
Topics: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Build Applications the JBoss Way
Pete Muir — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ray Ploski — Product Marketing Director, Red Hat
In this birds of a feather session, attendees will have the opportunity to ask and answer questions about building applications the JBoss Way. A number of JBoss core developers will be on hand to share their secret sauces for building rich Internet applications using the Java EE 6 stack. We’ll cover building applications for a range of Red Hat JBoss Middleware offerings, including Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Web Framework Kit, and Red Hat JBoss Data Grid. We’ll focus on the trends, such as HTML5 and JS, and new technologies, such as PicketLink identity management.
Location: Room 301
Topics: BPM, Development tools, Java development, JBoss Community projects, Portability, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Frameworks, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 7:00 pm - 7:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Implementing New Open Source Tools for Collaboration & Security
Chris Stierle — Senior Manager, IT Advanced Communications Services, Red Hat
Jay Madison — Director, IT Information Security, Red Hat
Red Hat IT has two major open source projects in the works: 1) its openUC collaboration system and 2) its new two-factor authentication solution, Lin OTP. With these offerings, Red Hat is bringing its customers, Red Hat associates, improved collaboration choices, better security, and increased flexibility. Red Hat IT initiated these projects with open source solutions and cost savings in mind, but with a host of other considerations at play. In both cases, Red Hat is implementing solutions that contribute positively to its bottom line, while also building the open source culture.
Join us for this birds of a feather session, to hear Chris Stierle discuss openUC and Jay Madison talk about Lin OTP. Chris and Jay will discuss the catalysts for these projects, the joys and challenges their teams have faced, what’s ahead for their areas, and how organizations can think creatively about employing open source solutions.
Location: Room 305
Topics: Cost savings, Flexibility, Manageability, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds of a Feather | Wednesday, June 12 | 7:00 pm - 7:50 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |