Red Hat Forum EMEA 2020

Dion Harvey welcomes attendees to the Sub-Saharan Africa track of the Red Hat Virtual Forum, he will take the audience through Red Hat's Hybrid Cloud strategic initiatives, explain Red Hat's local context, and take the audience through the agenda for the day.

Getting Closer to the Edge - The next generation of hybrid cloud applications won't be confined to central data-centres or public cloud deployments; instead, some of these innovations will exist at the edges of the networks, answering consumer demands and solving business challenges with the power that comes from near real-time processing and analysis. This future at the edge is powered by data, 5G, Linux containers and Kubernetes.

Ansible Engage! -  Automation can bring efficiency and agility to your environment, but Ansible is more than just a configuration management tool helping you install apache. I will explore some other uses of Ansible to lighten the load of Ops and how Ansible could be the hardest worker in your team. Let Ansible automate so you can innovate.

Anybody Can Do Integration - Codeless Integration for Business - If you think that being a whizz at middleware and integration is reserved for brainy geeks and nerds, think again. Think Red Hat Integration on Openshift - so easy, your gran could do it!

Solving the Digital Transformation Puzzle

Safaricom's OpenShift Journey - An Honest Interview With the Key Players - Join Chris Mwanzia, Senior Manager, Cloud and infrastructure Solutions, and Manager, Container Management and Automation and Alex Kipkirui, Senior Manager Enterprise Integration & Order Management, to hear how they selected, deployed and now use Red Hat OpenShift. The frank discussion will cover what's worked well, what lessons were learned and what advice they would give to other teams looking at OpenShift or similar solutions.

You've Already Been Locked Down, Don't Get Locked In - If you are new to Red Hat, this presentation is perfect for you! We are going back to basics - we look at the value of a subscription, and why Red Hat's unique subscription model outweighs proprietary license vendors. With a subscription, there are no lock-in or exit costs. Subscription models allow you Freedom, Control, Confidence & Flexibility. Join us to find out more about the unique value Red Hat can bring to your organisation.

Creating Organizational Impact Through Open Technology, Open Culture & Open Processes - THIS is Open Transformation - Red Hat has come a long way from the RHEL company you know and remember. We are leaders in Open Transformation. We assist companies with their digital transformation journey leveraging the open practices that built Red Hat. Open digital transformation delivers measurable positive people, process and technology business results.

Creating Organizational Impact Through Open Technology, Open Culture & Open Processes - THIS is Open Transformation - Red Hat has come a long way from the RHEL company you know and remember. We are leaders in Open Transformation. We assist companies with their digital transformation journey leveraging the open practices that built Red Hat. Open digital transformation delivers measurable positive people, process and technology business results.

Transforming Virtualization for the Future - A Refreshed Look at Virtualization - As organisations look ahead and transition their apps to containers, there is a realisation that some apps will not be refactored, and some will need long transformation cycle, however the delopers will still need to manage these side by side. Come and see how Red Hat is bringning the worlds of VM's, Containers and Serverless together, simplyfiying the transition from old to new.

Purple Cloud, Purple Cloud - Red Hat & IBM Make Music - Insights into how Red Hat and IBM enable an open hybrid multi cloud strategy by leveraging x86 and Power Systems in Private and Public cloud environments. 

Unfakable Linux, Convert2rhel, Live Kernel Patching and In-Place Upgrades - A demo of the RHEL conversion tool to upgrade from another Linux distribution to RHEL while keeping the system in tact, live kernel patching and in-place upgrades from older RHEL versions to RHEL 8.