Red Hat Forum United Kingdom 2018

An in-depth look at what Containers are, why they are crucially important to the next generation of Apps and why Red Hat is the key vendor to embrace.

The SQL database has long been the database of choice for enterprise organizations. The challenge has been that as architectures have modernized and cloud adoption has enabled the movement to microservices, traditional vendor's SQL databases have lacked the innovation necessary to keep pace. NuoDB is pleased to announce that it’s distributed SQL database is now available inside OpenShift; together, we can overcome database modernization obstacles. Join us at the London Partner Forumto learn how.

Benefits and challenges of using open source HPC and Cloud technologies to deliver modern public health services and to facilitate data sharing and accessibility.

One of the greatest strengths of containers is how easy it is to containerise an application. One of the greatest pitfalls of containers is how easy it is to containerise an application...badly. In this presentation we'll look at the ways you can build up an application architecture based on containers, and the patterns, tools and frameworks at your disposal to make that task a little less daunting.

Anyone who has seen a recent roadmap will know that the cat is out of the bag now; openshift 3.12 has become openshift 4.0. Why have Red Hat felt the need to increment the version number? The answer is the integration of the CoreOS technologies into the OpenShift Container Platform. This talk will look at the latest roadmap and do a deeper dive into some of these technologies. A must for anyone looking at or Operating OpenShift today.

A platform is only ever as good as what can be built on it. This session will explore the highs, lows and cultural pressure of enabling innovation one image at a time. Deutsche Bank will discuss their journey, over the course of the last year, that took them from single team ownership of images through to a decentralized and community-driven approach that focuses on automation and integration.

Whether you plan to monetise your services via API's or mobile apps their is a constant - integration. Cloud native micro services architectures, are becoming the norm and with that compound, orchestrated services. The way you construct and run your business has become less about construction, more about orchestration. In this presentation we look at the underlying capabilities, scale and architectures of Integration, service development, exposure and management through API's using the Red Hat Agile Integration Architecture.

Implementing DevOps is extremely challenging for many large enterprises. The biggest barrier to entry into a DevOps-enabled enterprise is the organisation and process that support it and its ability to scale out quickly and consistently. Hear from our thought leaders on how these challenges can be overcome to enable DevOps at Scale.

APIs have always been important, but the recent focus on standards, security, and interoperability means that every organisation now needs to have a strategy for consuming, producing and managing APIs. In this talk, we’ll take a closer look at the importance of APIs to your organisation and consider the elements that you need for a successful API strategy.

Customers are expecting an omni-channel digital experience from their vendors and at ever increasing service-levels. For years now ‘mobile' has been a key element of such omni-channel experience, but mastering mobile still is not an easy task. Customer attention spans are shorter than ever and the days when a mobile user would be on just one website or one app, at any given time are long gone. Mobile is a key part of any 'Digital Transformation' initiative, where both back-end IT architectures and Mobile UX are critical to achieve any sort of relevant customer engagement.

In this presentation the audience will learn from some good and bad examples of mobile engagements, and how our customers are using Red Hat technology to ensure they offer mobile users what they expect, or more, by offering enterprise cloud services for their customers. We will touch on areas such as UI/UX, notifications, content management, offline working, quality integration, availability, business processes, integration, analytics and how feedback all contribute towards a quality engagement.

Red Hat offers a platform to support mobile cloud services and enables it's customers with the next-generation architecture to accelerate time-to-market and increase the reliability of the cloud services offered.

The Atos Tech team will be demonstrating their abilities to deploy an end-to-end fleet management system including transportation management and an IoT interoperability platform for air quality services. Come and find out how we do this using Atos Managed OpenShift and the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

This presentation will discuss the background to the evolving storage market and discuss whether its development has moved the problem from one area to another. Examples will be given of what we see the customer issues are and how we glue the analytics environments together using software defined storage. Swansea University will discuss how CLIMB (Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Informatics) is using big data, data lakes and analytics using CEPH storage to create a one stop shop for Microbial Bioinformatics.

When you think of Red Hat Enterprise Linux you might see it as a workhorse, suitable for traditional COTS apps, or as a foundation for new technologies such as OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization. But did you know Red Hat Enterprise Linux fits into scenarios all over your enterprise? In this session, we’ll discuss how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be a pure OS play, or as an enabler of traditional and cloud virtualization. It can be a platform for application service support, and containerization, even artificial intelligence and machine learning. With additional packages, Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables software defined storage, IoT, and more. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a solid foundation for your today’s existing workloads with a plan to meet your business in its future phases with a platform for emerging technologies, too.

Paddy Power Betfair's OpenStack story is a journey from design, solving our technical challenges, how we built our private cloud and how we moved all our workloads to OpenStack. The next stage in this trilogy is how are we managing, reporting, upgrading , scaling out and supporting our OpenStack Cloud. This will be an unashamedly warts and all story of how the challenges we have faced have changed and where the pain points are.

We will discuss capacity planning, how we have upgraded our OpenStack cloud with thousands of different applications running 24/7 , how we have measured and driven our MTBF and MTTR metrics and what OpenStack has allowed us to do. This high level overview is a chance to learn from our mistakes! as well as to perhaps a few good ideas. We will touch on how we are approaching hybrid cloud and the new challenges this has brought.

OpenShift is awesome. OpenStack is awesome. What happens when you put awesome on top of awesome? OpenShift is a self service container platform which enables developers to build and run applications. OpenStack is a massively scalable private cloud platform which can provide the necessary infrastructure to run OpenShift. This session will take a look at the benefits of running OpenShift on OpenStack and the roadmap for making OpenShift a first class citizen on OpenStack.

Come and learn how Red Hat Cloudforms can make your on-premise infrastructure look and feel like the public cloud. Making IT operations more agile whilst maintaining security and governance. We'll also cover some new exciting technology to help you migrate VMs between hypervisors.

Serverless is fast becoming a new buzzword but what even is it and should we concern ourselves with it? This session will aim to give a general overview on what serverless actually is, the truth and myths around it, what Red Hat is doing with this architecture and finally a splash of demonstration to bring it to life.

Zombies have much in common with IT Infrastructure. They need control, governance, encouragement ? The zombie population increases exponentially, just like many of todays IT environmetns. Just like any good zombie movie, they always outnumber the humans, the secret to winning is all about the weapons and tactics you emply to keep them under control. In this talk, i'll be talking about some tools and tactics to help you stay ahead of the apocalypse. The tools i'll be focusing on will be Satellite, Ansible and SOE (Standard Operating Environments) to help you get the best from your Red Hat estate.

Insights gives you the ability to predict and prevent problems before they occur, using in-depth analysis of your Red Hat infrastructure to proactively identify threats to security, performance, and stability. This session will walk you through the features, using current examples.

The Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes enables cloud portability and automates operational best practices for deploying and managing the Couchbase Data Platform. Autonomously run stateful applications for faster innovation - Reduce your DevOps workload by running the Couchbase Data Platform as an autonomous, fully managed stateful database application next to your microservices applications on the same Kubernetes platform.Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategy - A cloud-agnostic application deployment and management platform that treats cloud providers like commodities and enables you to migrate between clouds freely. Automated operational best practices - Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes reduces operational complexity up to 95% by implementing the operational best practices that most efficiently deploy and manage the Couchbase Data Platform.

The traffic carried on the highways of the world is about to grow a data component, as every car manufacturer turns their vehicle into an IoT endpoint.

This session will look at an architecture capable of handling a moving, distributed network of vehicle endpoints using messaging, automated analysis and right-time-decision making in ways that can support both public and private-sector needs for a new generation of highway management and vehicle use.

Conventional eCommerce systems have traditionally forced organisations into building complex, monolithic systems that lack flexibility and customisation. For consumers of the system, the end result is a rigid, inflexible environment unable to offer a unique buying experience. The system is unable to adapt to consumer engagement patterns, offer different channel purchasing interactions and change the user interface quickly to match user demands for a better interactive experience. This session will introduce the concept of Headless eCommerce and the benefits it brings to consumers and platform administrators. By coupling this new style of eCommerce with OpenShift, organisations can bring a DevOps approach to their eCommerce platform whilst satisfying the demands of their consumers for an improved experience.

Building a Kubernetes platform from scratch is a technically challenging and intellectually rewarding endeavour, but it is ultimately just the platform; the business value is derived from the apps that it runs. In this session we will look at the benefits of choosing the leading Kubernetes distribution, OpenShift, over building Kubernetes from scratch, helping you spend more time delivering apps and less time worrying about your platform.

The world of IT is always evolving and system administrators are being called upon to deliver increasingly complex systems. The infrastructure at their disposal needs to be flexible and adaptable. The HPE Synergy platform, coupled with RedHat Ansible Tower, empowers IT to fully automate - from bare metal to software installation - the deployment of complex systems. Join HPE to learn how utilising HPE Synergy and Ansible Tower for RedHat OpenShift Container Platform deployment significantly reduces the initial configuration and deployment time of the solution. It increases the reliability for lifecycle management and operations and builds in best practices to reduce the chances of human error.

Over two years ago, CYBG, owner of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, launched its a new intuitive digital banking service, B, to encourage people to take control of their money. The delivery of B included the creation of the Bank’s digital platform, iB. As the service has evolved, so to has The Bank's approach, taking the learnings and making constant changes to improve the customer experience as well as managing the underlying technology. The Bank created an Operational Platform with Openshift at its core to help with the end to end lifecycle management of the various services. This talk will focus on what the Operational Platform is and discuss the additional components we have built to address the challenges we found of building, deploying and managing the different technologies used to run the iB platform.

In the face of rapid Digital Transformation initiatives that a lot of our clients are progressing with today, Red Hat has launched a broad scale programme to address many of the needs that arise out of these initiatives. Application Modernisation and Migration is a company wide umbrella programme driving real business value for our clients. Providing rapid commercial benefits against traditional / legacy alternatives, this session will illustrate how our clients can achieve these for themselves, and what the program plan looks like in reality.

Devops and agile is everywhere, great practices in delivering software have grown enormously over the past few years and is delivering results, but are you gteting the most out of your teams? Why does opensource innovate so rapidly and how do you embrace learnings from opensource culture and replicate into your organisation? We’ll look at some of the key attributes of opensource culture and where this has successfully been replicated in successful organisations and why this is driving agile innovation.

Netflix can pass the 120 Million Monthly Subscribers mark while still managing 25% Year-on-Year growth. Peloton are stealing gym memberships at over 150,000 memberships and 173% Year-on-Year growth rate. Businesses need to deliver better and more holistic experiences to customers through digital channels in order to succeed, but they struggle on their digital transformation journey in two fundamental areas. First, in the ability to fund transformational projects, and second, in integrating modern application toolchains with existing proprietary infrastructure. Attendees will learn how Red Hat's Infrastructure Migration Solution (IMS) helps organizations migrate large numbers of workloads from proprietary virtualization to open infrastructure platforms easily and with confidence. The new open platforms are better able to support modern agile toolchains through their open-source flexibility and conformance open standards, and the resulting cost savings allow customers to shift resources to broader digital transformation efforts.

If we are to believe the IT press, we live in interesting times. Blockchain, IoT and AI have each individually been called game-changers for business and we now face an immediate future where all three have the potential to bring great harm or help to our IT strategies. Unfortunately, like London busses, all three have arrived simultaneously!

Join us for a lively discussion of the biggest buzzwords in the industry, in a format which will keep you on your toes for the final session of the day.