Red Hat Forum EMEA 2020
Spain and Portugal sessions
On November 3, the Red Hat Forum 2020 took place. After the EMEA general session, began the specific content for Spain and Portugal.
The live Red Hat Forum EMEA 2020 Virtual Experience is over, but your learning doesn’t have to end. During the next year you can access the recordings of our sessions, that will help you go from here, anywhere.
Register or login to access all the content from the Spain and Portugal sessions so you can get more information about everything that happened in our great opensource event. You can also see the recordings through the links of the different sessions on this site.
What's available
- inspiring customer stories,
- Red Hat keynotes,
- Technical demos and presentations
- Q&A with industry experts
RED HAT FORUM 2020 SESSIONS ON-DEMAND
General and welcome sessions
Welcome and Introduction to Red Hat Forum 2020
Welcome to Red Hat EMEA Forum 2020 Keynote by Werner Knoblich, Senior Vice President & General Manager EMEA, Red Hat.
Keynote: building a flexible future with Red Hat
Interview by Michel Isnard, Vice President Sales EMEA at Red Hat, about building a flexible future with Red Hat technology to Mario Campolargo, CEO of DG Informatics and to Orhan Biyiklioglu, Cloud Engineering Manager at Turkcell.
Interactive Live demo: Multi Cloud is hard, Multi Cloud is real, the live game
Multicloud seems complicated, but the reality is that it's already here. Join this interactive live demo of applications running on multiple multi-cloud clusters and you'll find that it really isn't that difficult. With:
- Graeme Colman, UKI Domain Solution Architect & Developer Advocacy Lead, Red Hat
- Ian Lawson, Principal Domain Solution Architect, Red Hat
- Erin Murphy, Associate Solution Architect, Red Hat Mark Roberts, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Mark Roberts, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Welcome & Introduction - Spain and Portugal keynote
Welcome to the Red Hat Forum 2020 Iberia sessions. Julia Bernal, Country Manager of Spain and Portugal, presents the sessions prepared by Red Hat Iberia with content and technical sessions on Cloud, Containers, Automation, Edge ... In addition, we count on the presence and testimony of top IT leaders, sharing their use cases:
- Cristina Álvarez Álvarez, Group Executive Vice President – Global CTO, Santander Group
- Marian Illera, Transformation and Technology Director, Seur
- Fernando Lucero, Global CIO, Iberdrola
Open Hybrid Cloud Spain & Portugal sessions
Santander Tecnología: Go Cloud
Diego Duro, Dominio engineering Director at Santander Tecnología, tells us about the GoCloud project and how, thanks to the collaboration and intense work of Santander Tecnología and the Red Hat consulting team in a 100% remote way, they achieve the objectives.
They set and achieve surprising results in reducing onboarding, testing and commissioning in production, accelerating the Time-to-market of new products and services for its clients.
Telefónica: deploying a scalable log management architecture in Openshift with AMQ Streams (Kafka), beats and logstash
Eloy Valdera, Openshift Engineer at Telefónica, will show how a scalability and access control problem has been solved on the logs generated by the microservices deployed in OpenShift.
A scalable, flexible and secure reference architecture is proposed for the access and distribution of logs of the different applications.
BBVA: our journey towards process automation
In this session, Antonio Valle, Global Head of Process Automation Cloud Architecture at BBVA, tell us about the keys to automation at the company, a key factor for the financial sector. He explains us about BPMaaS, the technologies they rely on, and its successful deployment in all the geographies where the bank operates.
Operational excellence is one of their goals, and process automation is key to streamline decision-making and improve customer experience.
Open source: a beginner's guide
Pilar Bravo, Principal Solution Architect and Áurea Muñoz, Senior Java Software Engineer at Red Hat show in this session how to find your project and contributions to start with.
They explain how to connect with the community to make sure your contributions are useful, and which are the many different types of contributions you can make.
Red Hat as an adoption's accelerator and key in the transformation of your teams and organization
Carlos Spitzer, Manager, Telco TSMs & EMEA TSM Lead at Red Hat, covers how to overcome the barriers of adoption of Hybrid Cloud platforms and Cloud Native application development in a more effective way and in record time. This adoption contributes to the transformation of the teams applying modern methodologies and practices to obtain the maximum impact.
During the session he will also review the keys to the success of open organizations and why they have known how to adapt to new market demands and customers needs.
Event-oriented architecture with microservices. Example: Calculation of stock for an e-commerce platfor
This session provides key aspects of guiding principles, design and implementation for cloud native applications based on events and micro services.
Juan Luis Buenosvinos, Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat, show us, through a use case, to see and explore the relationship between the above principles and our technologies such as OCP, OCS, AMQ, Data Grid and Serverless.
Advanced Cluster Manager for Kubernetes. The Open Hybrid Cloud evolution: the challenge of managing multiple clusters
When working with hybrid architectures new challenges arise, but how can we manage those in an eficient way?
Join Andrés Valero, OpenShift Specialist Solution Architect and Mario Vázquez, Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and discover how Red Hat ACM can help you manage your infrastructure and your applications across hybrid environments, all of this without leaving security apart.
Autoscaling Hybrid Cloud: move to the next level
Hybrid cloud is an architecture that incorporates some degree of workload portability, orchestration, and management across 2 or more environments.
Álex Soto, Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat, conducts a live demonstration of hybrid cloud-native serverless workloads, distributed across public clouds, with real-time load-balancing, auto-scaling and fail-over.
IT Optimization and Automation Spain & Portugal sessions
Consum (Sopra Steria): walking towards the retail of the future
Consum, a leading Spanish supermarket company, is immersed in a transformation project to adapt to the challenges and demands of increasingly demanding consumers, which entails complex cultural and technological change.
Javier Saurí Bier, Deputy Director at Sopra Steria Levante, explain how this project was developed in close collaboration with Red Hat, who accompanied them in this initiative, collaborating in the implementation of a new open and scalable architecture.
Grupo Carreras (Capgemini): digital transformation and application modernization
Carreras required three divisions to merge their systems and work as one company. With the help of Capgemini, they undertook a Digital Transformation and Application Modernization project.
Choosing Openshift brought the development and operations teams together enabling a stable and robust workflow with quality and value delivery, increased safety, and reduced operating costs. The session in which they explain it to us is carried out by:
- Javier Ibáñez Zaldívar, Director of Technology and Innovation, Grupo Carreras
- Fernando San Vidal Almarza, Account Executive, Capgemini
Cepsa: ASAP project. SAP migration: from data center to public cloud (AWS)
The objective of the ASAP project is to migrate the entire SAP infrastructure, a critical IT system for Cepsa, serving all business areas on five continents, from its central data centers to AWS. The project has included automating the migration from SUSE OS environments to RHEL and upgrade to HANA 2.
An expert team of Cepsa exposes the project:
David Liras, Architectures and Digital Platforms Director
Elisa Curiel Cabezudo, SAP Competence Center Technician
Mat Jovanovic, Cloud Manager
Inversis (Paradigma): Inversis reinvents itself
Inversis sought to reinvent itself by outsourcing services to financial entities. To get this they made the decision to carry out the migration of Shell Scripts to Red Hat Ansible playbooks in order to master the full power of these tools.
Paradigma came into play by helping them explore the Red Hat ecosystem (Ansible and Ansible Tower) and thus benefit from all the benefits they bring. The project is explained by:
- Sergio Borroni Giuliano, Head of Infrastructure at Inversis Banco
- Luis Nieto, Service Delivery Manager at Paradigma
- Ernesto Valero, Automation Engineer at Paradigma
How to optimize and accelerate your I.T. with all the advanced features of Red Hat Insights technology
In this brief but informative session, Sérgio Seabra, Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat, will provide an overview of SAS Red Hat Insights and how it's overarching abilities, enable an unprecedented level of optimization to your operational lifecycle (SysOps, SecOps and NetOps), for the entirety of your Red Hat ecosystem.
Enhance your virtualization into a container world with OpenShift Virtualization
Containers are here to stay. Companies love their benefits. Can organizations add elasticity, ubiquity and resilience to traditional virtualized workloads?
In this session with Ramón Gordillo, Principal Solution Architect and Miguel Pérez Colino, Principal Product Manager at Red Hat we'll see OpenShift Virtualization for running virtual machines within a kubernetes environment, and the migration tools that Red Hat provides for both migrating to native containers and virtual loads in kubernetes.
Access and Automation of Dynamic Inventories
A common handicap in all organizations is the inventory management of the elements that make up our environment. Added to it, there is the dilemma of who can access what elements and how.
During the following minutes, Moisés Rivera, Principal Solution Architect and Team Lead at Red Hat will explore the strengths of Ansible Automation Platform to solve these problems and thus be able to have a much simpler and automated management of them.
Red Hat speakers
Keynote guest speakers
Clients and partners speakers parallel sessions
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