Red Hat at IBM Think 2023

Add to agenda: Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and containers can help IT accelerate development by taking a cloud-native and hybrid cloud approach and building applications that can run anywhere, but it takes more than just investing in new technology. It invites a completely different approach to the human side of the equation, and understanding what capabilities you need to operationalize Kubernetes-powered application development and delivery at scale, consistently across environments including IBM P & Z.

In this session, we will explore the process, culture and technology changes that successful organizations make when adopting hybrid cloud, including learnings from Red Hat customers implementing Red Hat OpenShift as an underlying platform.

Location:  Stage 1, Think Forum, Level 4, Sapphire Falls 

Speakers:

Abhinav Joshi, Director, OpenShift Product Marketing, Red Hat

Simon Seagrave, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Add to agenda: Open hybrid cloud is Red Hat’s recommended strategy for building, developing, and operating your hybrid landscape of applications, infrastructure, and processes. From your business-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to your container-based applications on Red Hat OpenShift, to all the application services and automation in between, including Ansible, Red Hat gives you the tools you need to transform, innovate, and compete on-premise or in the cloud.

Location: Stage 2, Think Forum, Level 4, Sapphire Falls

Speaker:

Gunnar Hellekson, General Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 

James Falkner, Director, OpenShift and Runtimes Product Marketing, Red Hat

Add to agenda: Associating events with specific desired actions creates a combination of observability and automation that can help diagnose and fix IT problems faster. The new action framework within Instana partnered with Ansible Automation Platform assists investigating IT teams to hit the ground running to resolve issues or respond to a specific condition when it occurs. Customers can see what actions have been used in the past to work around or fix similar issues, saving time in determining next steps and running actions directly on the agent that triggered the event. Hear how this solution is bringing value to users and how it sets the stage for using AI to recommend a next action to take to resolve issues or run them automatically.

Location:  Stage 2, Think Forum, Level 4, Sapphire Falls

Speakers:

Nelson Hsu, Product Marketing Director, Management Business Unit, Red Hat

Mike Mallo, Instana Head of Product, IBM AIOps, IBM

Add to agenda: Advance Auto Parts is a company that has transformed and modernized its infrastructure and software delivery through cloud-native fundamental adoption.   The company was mired with technical debt and disparate systems and has evolved to become an efficient containerized innovative software company.  In fact, the mantra is Advance Auto Parts is a technology company that just happens to sell auto parts.  Listen to their journey to drive common technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift as the platform, while reducing on-premise data centers and moving to a hybrid cloud strategy with special edge requirements and use cases. Looking forward to AI and Automation with technologies from Red Hat and IBM including Ansible, RHODS, and Watson Core.

Location: Stage 1, Think Forum, Level 4, Sapphire Falls

Speakers:

Sonia Pereira, Sr. Director - Enterprise Architecture, Advance Auto Parts

Mark Parzygnat, Director, Global Solution Architect, Red Hat

Add to agenda: With a tightening economy and extremely competitive labor market, IT organizations are increasingly counting on their automation initiatives to do more to drive the business forward.

In this session, you'll learn three highly effective strategies that leading Ansible customers are harnessing to achieve new levels of efficiency and agility. From expanding automation across multiple domains (infrastructure, network, cloud, edge, etc.), to driving stronger collaboration through internal communities of excellence, to automating at scale across the hybrid cloud, there has never been a better time to accelerate with automation.

Location:  Stage 1, Think Forum, Level 4, Sapphire Falls

Speakers:

Annie Potvin, Senior Director, Red Hat Portfolio Product Marketing, Red Hat

Darren Orzechowski, Senior Director, Ansible Product Marketing, Red Hat

Add to agenda: While 78% of enterprises have a DevSecOps initiative, 55% have delayed deployments due to security concerns. Hear this and other findings from global surveys of trends in modernizing applications, building new cloud-native applications, and securing applications on modern Kubernetes platforms. Also learn the results of multiple surveys and real-world examples on use cases, workloads, and solution architectures from Red Hat OpenShift customers.

Location:  Tech Byte Stage, Think Forum, Sapphire Falls

Speaker: 

Abhinav Joshi, Director, OpenShift Product Marketing, Red Hat