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Sessions and labs at Red Hat Summit cover a wide range of topics, interests, and skill levels. Breakout sessions are 1 hour presentations led by subject matter experts, and hands-on labs - either self-paced or instructor-led - are 2 hours in length. Use the filters to sort by product line, solution, benefit, and technical difficulty.

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Developing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for 64-bit ARM: Platform standardization for customer success

Yan FisherSenior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Jon MastersChief ARM Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
ARM-powered servers are an emerging technology for datacenters and cloud solutions. Red Hat has a long track record of driving standards for 64-bit ARM architecture in a collaborative and transparent environment with both the community and partners. The culmination of these activities should come in the form of a singular operating platform capable of supporting multiple ARM-based system designs.

Join this session to:


  • Understand the challenges this emerging technology presents to IT decision makers, ISVs, and developers.

  • Learn about our engineering efforts related to ARM-powered servers.

  • See exciting demos of this brand new platform.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Manageability, Portability, Scalability, Cost savings, Performance, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

Performance tuning for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid

Vijay ChintalapatiMiddleware Specialist, Red Hat, Inc.
Divya MehraPrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
John OsborneMiddleware Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Developing and tuning for an in-memory distributed data grid requires more attention to detail than a regular Java application. To maximize performance, a suitable combination of cluster settings, network protocols, and massive heaps is needed. This means that the Java virtual machine (JVM) properties must be tuned to avoid long garbage-collection pauses that can impact response time and cause network partitions.

In this session, you will learn:

  • Best practices for tuning Red Hat JBoss Data Grid.

  • Suitable options for tuning OpenJDK heaps, JBoss Data Grid cache parameters, and JGroups configurations.

  • How to measure performance with the new RadarGun open source tool.

Topics: Application development & integration, Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am5

What’s new with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network

John DoylePrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Stefan NegreaRed Hat, Inc.
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network helps you monitor and manage your application servers. It has a hub-and-spoke architecture, with a central server and agents on machines with resources to manage them. Customers can interact with the system using a comprehensive user interface on the server or a command-line interface and a REST API.


In this session, you’ll preview the latest version of Red Hat JBoss Operations Network and learn about its newest features and enhancements, including:



  • A new user interface.


  • Integration with access.redhat.com.


  • Improved support for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, including patching.




Topics: Infrastructure, Manageability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

A guide to modern BPM integration

Eric D. SchabellJBoss Technology Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
All across the Internet you will find references to solutions, offerings, and products that try to align with business process management (BPM) solutions.

Whether you’re a Business Analyst or in IT strategy, this webinar will illustrate how easy it is to model and automate business processes with modern BPM tools in the travel industry.

If you are talking to an airline, a baggage handler, a bookings agency or anyone in between, they all have one thing in common. They are dealing with complex business processes that often need to combine rules, events, resource planning, and processes.

You’ll take a deep look into several sample integration solutions for this industry, simulating a travel agency booking system with:

  • Service integration

  • Multiple tasks

  • Complex BPM elements

  • Rule-based fraud detection for payment processing

  • Disparate data source integration

  • Microservice migration and integration with BPM



  • You will leave with an advanced overview of the capabilities of the Red Hat® JBoss® BPM Suite.

Topics: Application development & integration, Cost savings, Flexibility, Reliability, Manageability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm3

Docker recipes for Java developers

Arun GuptaDirector, Developer Advocacy And Technical Marketing, Red Hat, Inc.
Containers are enabling developers to package their applications (and underlying dependencies) in new ways that are portable and work consistently everywhere? On your machine, in production, in your data center, and in the cloud. And Docker has become the de facto standard for those portable containers in the cloud, whether you’re working with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.

Docker is the developer-friendly Linux container technology that enables creation of your stack: OS, JVM, app server, app, and all your custom configuration. So with all it offers, how comfortable are you and your team taking Docker from development to production? Are you hearing developers say, “But it works on my machine!” when code breaks in production? And if you are, how many hours are then spent standing up an accurate test environment to research and fix the bug that caused the problem?

This sessions offers developers an introduction to Docker, from installation, to exploring Docker Hub, to crafting their own images, to adding Java apps and running custom containers. It will also explain how to use Kubernetes to orchestrate these containers together.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

Transitioning from Red Hat Satellite 5 to Red Hat Satellite 6

Richard JerridoPrincipal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Clifford PerrySenior Engineering Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Satellite 6 is the newest version of Red Hat’s system management platform. Its updated architecture is capable of handling cloud deployment models and hyperscale computing.

In this session, Rich Jerrido and Tomas Lestach will demonstrate how to effectively plan for and execute a transition from Red Hat Satellite 5 to Red Hat Satellite 6.

We’ll demonstrate a successful migration process and discuss how to migrate subscriptions, servers and data constructs, and registered Red Hat Enterprise Linux clients.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Security, Flexibility, Scalability, Cost savings, Manageability, Reliability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm4

Racing Camel with BPM and Red Hat JBoss Fuse

Christina LinRed Hat
Eric D. SchabellJBoss Technology Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
Did you know that you can easily merge your enterprise Apache Camel integration with your business processes? Join this lab to see how you can integrate business process management (BPM) with Apache Camel.

In this lab, you will:


  • Create a customer care project containing several BPM processes that integrate seamlessly with JBoss Fuse.


  • Provide full business activity monitoring (BAM) reporting abilities.


  • Manage the integration with Fuse Fabric.


Topics: Application development & integration, Scalability, Interoperability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Manageability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-2Wednesday, June 2410:30 am - 12:30 pm3

Docker for Java developers

Arun GuptaDirector, Developer Advocacy And Technical Marketing, Red Hat, Inc.
Peter MuirManager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Ray PloskiRed Hat, Inc.
Thomas QvarnströmJBoss Technology Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
Containers enable developers to package their applications and underlying dependencies in ways that are portable and work consistently everywhere--on your machine, in production, in your datacenter, and in the cloud.

No matter what your cloud platform, Docker has become the de facto standard for creating portable containers in the cloud. Docker is the developer-friendly Linux container technology that enables creation of your stack: OS, JVM, app server, app, and all your custom configuration.

So with all it offers, how comfortable are you and your team taking Docker from development to production? Does your code work on your machine but break in production? How many hours are you spending standing up an accurate test environment to research and fix the bug that caused the problem?

Bring your laptop and get ready to participate in an introductory level, hands-on session with Docker. In the lab, you will:


  • Install Docker (including boot2docker on Windows/Mac).

  • Explore Docker hub.

  • Craft your own images.

  • Add Java apps.

  • Run custom containers.

Topics: Infrastructure, Portability, Scalability, Interoperability, Performance, Flexibility, Simplicity, Manageability, Middleware, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-1Thursday, June 2510:30 am - 12:30 pm2

Splunk on Red Hat Gluster Storage for the win

Jacob ShucartSr. Cloud Storage Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
David YaffeTechnical Analyst, SaskTel
Whether it's for security, compliance, or business agility reasons, many enterprises rely on Splunk to help them make sense of the massive amounts of data generated by their systems. As with any analytics platform, the larger the data set you have to work with, the more you can do.

Hear how SaskTel, a billion-dollar Canadian communications provider, designed their environment using Splunk and Red Hat Gluster Storage. Their storage solution allows them to efficiently store the huge quantities of data needed for regulatory purposes. As a bonus, it also presents the data in a consumable, cost-effective and scalable way to many different groups within the company.

Topics: Infrastructure, Reliability, Scalability, Flexibility, Performance, Cost savings, Interoperability, Simplicity, Storage, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

OpenShift for operators

Scott CollierSenior Principal Systems Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Christoph GörnPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Erik JacobsTechnical Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Harrison RippsManager, Software Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
OpenShift 3 couples the speed and portability of Docker containers with the cluster management capabilities of Kubernetes. For developers, the real power of OpenShift is in how it uses these technologies to provide full application life-cycle support, from source code through production to application deployments. But what if the application that you are trying to manage is OpenShift itself?

In this lab, you'll learn about how OpenShift works and what you can do to integrate OpenShift into your network with various deployment tools, authentication options, and routing technologies. Once your OpenShift system is up and running, you'll learn about how you can manage it as a project from within itself, the same way developers will manage their projects running on OpenShift. This lab is highly recommended for anyone considering an OpenShift deployment for their private cloud.

Topics: Infrastructure, PaaS, Manageability, Simplicity, Modularity, Interoperability, Scalability, Flexibility, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-3Wednesday, June 243:30 pm - 5:30 pm3

Application & infrastructure continuous delivery using OpenShift and OpenStack

Keith LynchRed Hat, Inc.
Jim MinterPrincipal Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to create a continuous-delivery pipeline for complex applications and datacenter infrastructure, based on industry-standard Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies.

You will learn how technologies, including OpenStack Orchestration (Heat), OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat and Linux containers, can be tightly integrated to automate the deployment and management of core datacenter infrastructure services.

In addition, you will see how to construct a fully automated pipeline based on the same technologies to deliver an n-tier application comprising Java EE and HTML5 source code, JBoss Fuse messaging and integration components, and a persistent database.

The session will include a demo, as well as links to the open source repository containing all the materials used to build it.

Topics: Infrastructure, PaaS, IaaS, Application development & integration, Cost savings, Simplicity, Interoperability, Portability, Modularity, Flexibility, Scalability, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm4

SecurePaaS with OpenShift on Red Hat JBoss Middleware

Tony StaffordVP Of Technical Solutions, Shadow-Soft
Derrick SutherlandSenior Solution Architect, Shadow-Soft
Deploying security architectures into enterprise systems is costly and time consuming. To provide a high performance and usable security framework for consumers of platform services, Shadow-Soft is launching SecurePaaS, an advanced integrated security solution for providing critical cyber threat protections for on-premise or hybrid service-oriented architecture (SOA) and hybrid cloud deployments.

In this session, you will learn about security concerns related to identity management, authentication, authorization, and auditing in a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment. Additionally, you'll see a technical demonstration of SecurePaaS’ capabilities in an OpenShift environment, with Red Hat JBoss Middleware as the middleware platform.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Scalability, Security, Interoperability, Cost savings, Manageability, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Accelerating the value of an SAP HANA investment with hybrid cloud

Vince LubseySVP, Product Management And Solution Architecture, Virtustream
If your IT department produce self-updating, consumption-based, continuously accessible applications on top of ecosystems that allow speed, elasticity, and scale, you should consider taking advantage of a fully virtualized SAP HANA production in a hybrid cloud environment. In this session, learn how Virtustream and Red Hat enable companies to easily and efficiently manage and run any mix of legacy applications and open source applications within a single cloud environment.
We’ll demonstrate, through use cases, how Virtustream's xStream Enterprise Cloud platform offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux to SAP HANA customers as a secure environment for flexible, big data deployment. We’ll discuss real-world examples, including how:

  • Enterprise customers standardize all of their SAP implementations on a single operating system.

  • Businesses can use the stability, security, and reliability of the xStream public cloud computing resources to run their big data workloads.

  • On-demand analytical processing power can also help reduce the overall cost of extreme data workloads.

Topics: Application development & integration, Simplicity, Security, Manageability, Cost savings, Reliability, Flexibility, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

Performance tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform for databases

Sanjay RaoPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, we'll give you recommendations for how to tune Red Hat Enterprise Linux to optimize your database's performance.
You will learn how to:

  • Tune your operating system (OS) on bare metal and virtual platforms.

  • Use Linux containers to run databases and applications for multitenancy and performance.

  • Identify database performance issues using Linux performance tools.


Along with the tuning recommendations, we will discuss the effects of various OS settings by comparing performance data.

Topics: Infrastructure, Scalability, Performance, Cost savings, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AWednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Overview & roadmap of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Scott HeroldPrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, learn about the the key features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

We’ll give you an overview of current and upcoming features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and even do a live demo examining the latest product features and capabilities. We’ll give you time to ask questions to better understand the current and future direction of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Topics: Infrastructure, Simplicity, Performance, Reliability, Scalability, Cost savings, Virtualization

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

Accelerate your BPMS web application development

Andy YuenSolution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Business process management software (BPMS) forms are generated and customized by business analysts when they create business processes. To get fine-grained access control, a consistent look-and-feel, and better client interactions, many customers prefer to build a web application that interacts with the business process remotely running on a BPMS execution server.

Figuring out how to use the forms generated on the BPMS server from the web application is problematic. Most people think there’s no easy way to do this and resolve themselves to manually replicating forms on the web application.

In this session, you’ll learn how to speed your BPMS web application development using a code-generation approach and an API-based approach.

We’ll show you the demo applications built using these approaches. These applications provide the UI front end for a BPMS sample mortgage business process which interacts with the user and BPMS during process instantiation and handling of manual tasks.

Topics: Application development & integration, Performance, Simplicity, Flexibility, Cost savings, Manageability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am4

Container security: Do containers actually contain? Should you care?

Daniel WalshMr SELinux, Red Hat, Inc.
As container use gains popularity, container security is more important than ever. This talk is split into 4 parts detailing security measures in containers, signing, authentication and authorization with the daemon, and mandatory access control.

In this session, you will:


  • Learn about the security measures in container management that control what processes within a container can do, and hear about upcoming security enhancements to containers.

  • See how container images are signed.

  • Discover authentication updates being made to the server to control who’s able to manipulate a container, and learn how developers are splitting functions that an authenticated user is allowed to do on the server.

  • Learn how SELinux works and how it works with Docker.

Topics: Infrastructure, Application development & integration, PaaS, Security, Modularity, Cloud computing, Virtualization, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm4

Super privileged containers

Daniel WalshMr SELinux, Red Hat, Inc.
Containers not only provide security separation, resource isolation, and process isolation, but are also a mechanism for shipping software. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, it’s ideal for customers and third parties to only ship software in container format. In certain cases, it’s best to ship software as a container image, but allow the container to manipulate and manage the host operating system or to manage other container processes.

In this session, you’ll learn how to turn off different security and process isolation components of containers to enable the container to see and manipulate processes and configuration on the host system.

You’ll see a demo of how to use containers to:

  • Load kernel modules.

  • Run virtual machines.

  • Debug and strace processes on the system

Topics: Application development & integration, Modularity, Manageability, Simplicity, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am4

Immutable infrastructure, containers, & the future of microservices

Adam MillerSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Many current trends in software development and deployment are based around the concept of microservices, small independent services interconnected via application programming interfaces (APIs).

The concept of immutable infrastructure is another area of application life cycle that’s gaining attention. In immutable infrastructure, we deploy immutable components that are replaced each time we deploy instead of in-place upgrades.

In this session, we’ll discuss the use of containers as a delivery mechanism for microservices following the immutable infrastructure paradigm. We’ll show this in the context of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.

Topics: Application development & integration, Infrastructure, Flexibility, Manageability, Interoperability, Modularity, Portability, Scalability, Simplicity, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm5

Containers versus virtualization

Jeremy EderPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Scott HeroldPrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, we’ll compare and contrast virtualization and container technologies, using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as our examples. We’ll examine performance characteristics of these technologies and talk about how to optimize the performance of these products.

You’ll see how, for many use cases, virtualization and container technologies often complement each other, leading to better performance, resilience, and flexibility.

Topics: PaaS, IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Scalability, Manageability, Performance, Flexibility, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am5

CloudForms Automate and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Razique MahrouaLinux Curriculum Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat CloudForms' automation model is a powerful way to design workflows, speed up delivery, and manage various infrastructures.

In this session, we’ll explore this automation model and see how it interacts with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Topics: Infrastructure, Modularity, Manageability, Flexibility, Scalability, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm4

Bootstrapping a DevOps movement in Red Hat IT

Timothy BielawaSenior Release Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Ryan CookSenior Systems Administrator, Red Hat, Inc.
Jennifer KriegerAgile Coach, Red Hat, Inc.
Steve MilnerSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Chris MurphySenior System Administrator - Inception Team At Red Hat, Red Hat, Inc.
In late 2013, Team Inception started in Red Hat’s IT department with a mission to substantially increase the department's speed of software delivery and improve the overall technical working environment in the department.

In this panel, we’ll discuss the team’s first year on this project and see what they’ve learned so far. More importantly, we’ll give you time to ask your technical and cultural questions about what it’s like to be responsible for something that has no handbook and can't be solved with a tool.

Topics will include:


  • What we accomplished. We'll take you step-by-step through how we deliver our work using a combination of open source tools, including Docker.

  • How we rate both our cultural and tooling success.

  • Roadblocks, disruptions, and surprises we encountered and how we handled them.

  • How this project has changed the way we view our jobs and our work relationships.

  • What’s next for the team.



Panel:


  • Tim Bielawa, Release engineering / developer

  • Ryan Cook, System administration

  • Steve Milner, Security / developer

  • Chris Murphy, System administration



Panel facilitator: Jen Krieger, Agile coach & original Inception product owner
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm2

Transforming government IT: Stories & lessons from the U.S. public sector

Ted BrunellSenior Solution Architect / DoD Cloud Specialist, Red Hat, Inc.
Jeremy GerdesSenior Systems Engineer, Onpoint Consulting, Inc.
John KeeseDirector Of Government Cloud Services, CSC, Autonomic Resources
Justin MarstonHypori
Massimo PerrecaChief Architect, Computer Sciences Corporation
Cloud computing, virtualization, and other open source technology solutions are transforming the government IT landscape. The result is lower costs, higher efficiency, and increased responsiveness for government customers.

In this session, you’ll hear from thought leaders in the field of government IT who are leading this charge. Learn about the approaches they are taking, the products they’re deploying, and the results that they’re getting.

The conversation will focus on the following areas:


  • The benefits of cloud computing and an open source approach to the cloud.

  • The role virtualization and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layers play in the transformation.

  • Experiences and lessons learned from building solutions with open source technology.

  • Strategies that are being used to manage large environments.

  • The role emerging technologies, such as containers, play in the transformation.

Topics: Application development & integration, IaaS, PaaS, Infrastructure, Manageability, Cost savings, Performance, Interoperability, Portability, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Flexibility, Simplicity, Modularity, Linux platforms, Middleware, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm2

Gain a competitive edge with machine-data analytics

Irshad RaihanProduct Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Syed RasheedSenior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Middleware, Red Hat
The software and hardware in your company creates large volumes of logs that provide rich insights about the health of your enterprise. It’s no surprise, then, that machine data is the largest component of the big data market.

Red Hat is working with leaders in this space, including Intel and Splunk, to create solutions that help you mine actionable insights from machine data across a number of industries.

In this session, customers share how they successfully deployed machine-data analytics to improve operational efficiency and security and to lower costs.

Customers: SaskTel

Partners: Splunk, Intel

Topics: Infrastructure, Performance, Cost savings, Scalability, Simplicity, Flexibility, Reliability, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
201Wednesday, June 246:00 pm - 7:00 pm4

Make a data-driven investment decision about big data

Scott McClellanSenior Director Of Emerging Technology, Red Hat
Irshad RaihanProduct Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
The definition and scope of big data is very loosely defined. The value it offers and the best way to measure that value is even more hazy. As technology landscapes change and consolidate systems, it becomes even more challenging to know where enterprises need to focus to gain tangible value from big data.

In this session, we’ll give you the tools you need to make an informed investment decision about big data. We’ll help you understand the complex web of technologies that make up the big data ecosystem, and give you a tool to navigate the new open source communities and commercial technology options. And we’ll tell you how Red Hat has enabled some of the most demanding big data customers on their path to success.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, Application development & integration, Interoperability, Portability, Reliability, Modularity, Security, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Scalability, Storage, Virtualization, Middleware, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am2

FICO Analytic Cloud: How we transitioned to SaaS from a legacy IBM/VMware application

Andy QuangFICO
For more than 50 years, FICO has served the world’s top banks. Several years ago, we decided we needed to expand our business and diversify into new markets, particularly the middle market.


To accomplish this goal, we developed the FICO Analytic Cloud based on Red Hat’s portfolio of products, including OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, and Red Hat Ceph Storage.


Choosing Red Hat products allowed us to:


  • Democratize our analytics to serve the middle market better.


  • Extend our offerings to different industries.


  • Bring analytics to the masses.





Join us to hear how we partnered with Red Hat to create the FICO Analytic Cloud and create over $10M in incremental revenue in the first year.

Topics: Application development & integration, PaaS, Infrastructure, IaaS, Cost savings, Performance, Scalability, Flexibility, Middleware, Virtualization, Storage, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm2

Implement dead letter channel error management with Apache Camel

Ricardo TaniguchiCurriculum Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
In any message-based service, there will be errors. In Java Messaging Service (JMS), a dead letter queue is often used to handle these messaging errors. Dead letter queues, or channels, are a common enterprise integration pattern (EIP), but implementing these patterns is often cumbersome for a developer.

In this session, you’ll learn how to use Apache Camel to manage a dead letter channel immediately and without configuration. You’ll see how brilliantly simple they are to implement.

Topics: Application development & integration, Interoperability, Reliability, Manageability, Flexibility, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

Fabric deployment with Red Hat JBoss Fuse

Jim RigsbeeRed Hat, Inc.
Douglas SilvaRed Hat
Ricardo TaniguchiCurriculum Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
In a cloud-ready environment, your middleware must expand without any complex or configuration files. Red Hat JBoss Fuse comes with Fuse Fabric, a cloud-ready technology that expands a Platform-as-a-Service in a simple way.

During this session, you will configure and customize JBoss Fuse to enable fabric and increase the amount of servers running on a cloud environment.

Topics: Application development & integration, Infrastructure, PaaS, Flexibility, Simplicity, Scalability, Manageability, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm3

Mobile application platforms: A hands-on introduction

Cian ClarkeSoftware Engineer, Red Hat, Inc
Chad HolmesSr. Solutions Architect, Red Hat Mobile
In this session, we’ll introduce Red Hat Mobile Platform and give you hands-on experience with the core components of the platform, including Node.js-driven service development via a Mobile backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS), front-end app development, and designing reusable mobile components across multiple projects.

We’ll discuss advantages of this approach, including:


  • Code reuse and easier maintainability of code.

  • Greater control over data governance via a single source for back-end system integrations.

  • Integrations that are discoverable to your mobile developers.



We’ll also talk about the key components you’ll need to create mobile integrations in your enterprise. These include:


  • Projects

  • Ready-made services to integrate into 3rd-party back ends

  • Custom, reusable services to integrate into proprietary back ends

  • Client-side developers

  • Cloud code that is specific to a single project

Topics: Other, PaaS, Application development & integration, Cost savings, Other, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-1Thursday, June 253:30 pm - 5:30 pm2

Hands on with Satellite 6.1

Brad BuckinghamRed Hat, Inc
Bryan KearneySr. Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
Ohad LevyRed Hat
In this hands-on lab, you will use the new features of Red Hat Satellite 6.1 and walk through deploying and updating a Docker container onto a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 machine.

This lab will show you how to:

  • Automatically provision rules to create new hosts during boot time.

  • Mirror and manage Linux containers provided by Red Hat.

  • Deploy Linux containers onto running systems.

  • Address common patching scenarios such as ShellShock.

  • Use SCAP to ensure compliance of a running machine.

  • Make use of Customer Portal integration from the Red Hat Satellite user interface.

Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Security, Reliability, Scalability, Manageability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-3Friday, June 2611:30 am - 1:30 pm4

Past, present, & future of Red Hat Ceph Storage

Neil LevineDirector Of Product Management, Red Hat, Inc.
Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Get an update about the latest version of Red Hat Ceph Storage, including information about the newest features and use cases, with a particular focus on cloud storage and OpenStack. We’ll also explore the themes and directions for the roadmap for the next 12 months.

Topics: IaaS, Interoperability, Cost savings, Scalability, Cloud computing, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm3

Integrating Ceph and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Openstack Platform

Jean-Charles LopezSenior Technical Instructor, Red Hat, Inc.
Diaa RadwanSolution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
In this lab, we’ll implement and configure Ceph Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. You’ll learn how to integrate Red Hat Ceph Storage with the Glance, Cinder, Keystone and Nova services to provide the images, volumes, and ephemeral storage infrastructure that are common to every OpenStack implementation. As a bonus exercise, we’ll implement the object store component built into Ceph cluster via the Ceph Object Gateway to provide Swift API cloud storage to our OpenStack environment.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Scalability, Manageability, Flexibility, Performance, Storage, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-2Friday, June 2611:30 am - 1:30 pm3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management

Dmitri PalIdM Portfolio Red Hat, Inc., Red Hat, Inc.
Diaa RadwanSolution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Matthew SmithSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to set up an instance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management. You will perform the following steps:



  • Prepare and install Red Hat Identity Management.


  • Configure host-based access control, centrally-managed users, groups, sudoers, automounts, and SELinux profiles using a web GUI and CLI.


  • Integrate Red Hat Enterprise Identity Management with Active Directory.


  • Explore the high availability options and two-factor authentication in Red Hat Enterprise identity management.


Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Flexibility, Security, Cost savings, Manageability, Simplicity, Scalability, Virtualization, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-3Thursday, June 2510:30 am - 12:30 pm4

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 roadmap & new features

Dimitris AndreadisSenior Engineering Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Bilge OzpeynirciSr. Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) and WildFly (the JBoss Community project previously known as JBoss Application Server) have redefined how people view Java EE and enterprise middleware.

These platforms deliver a new lightweight core architecture with modular enterprise services. With new features and functionality, you can re-imagine what you can do with Java middleware.

Join us for a look at the new features and enhancements in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.

Topics: Application development & integration, Security, Modularity, Flexibility, Interoperability, Manageability, Simplicity, Performance, Reliability, Scalability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Continuous integration & continuous delivery via containers

Michael HeldebrantCloud Infrastructure Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Greg HoelzerRed Hat, Inc.
When you use traditional continuous integration and continuous delivery tools to build Linux containers as code, you create a container factory. This factory continuously builds and delivers the versions of OS and platforms that your application teams build and deliver their applications to. Using this model allows you to continuously deliver and integrate the OS and platform during any phase of the application life cycle--be it development, quality assurance (QA), or production.

By treating infrastructure as code and integrating it into the application’s build process, you will reduce risk during deployment and production.

With patch cycles, you can almost immediately move between current and next versions of containers instead of compressing all of the changes into a traditional maintenance window. Using a container patch cycle strategy allows you to revert to the previous version instead of having to roll back in place.

In this session, we’ll explore:


  • Using traditional continuous integration and continuous delivery tools to build Linux containers as code.

  • Implementing a container patch cycle strategy in your development.

  • Benefits of continuous integration and continuous delivery tools.

Topics: Infrastructure, PaaS, Security, Simplicity, Scalability, Reliability, Flexibility, Modularity, Portability, Linux platforms, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Amadeus uses next-generation containerized application platform with OpenShift

Gabriel BecharaSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Yassine FadliRed Hat, Inc.
Eric MountainDistributed Systems Expert, Amadeus IT Group, Amadeus
Arnaud SimonServices Delivery Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Eric Mountain is a distributed systems expert at Amadeus IT Group, the leading provider of technology solutions for the travel industry.

To continue shaping the future of travel, they needed a state-of-the-art computing platform to help improve business performance of travel agencies, corporations, airlines, ground handlers, hotels, railways, car rental companies, airports, cruise lines, insurance companies, and ferry operators.

To continue offering highly available, innovative services to clients, IT leaders at Amadeus realized they needed a new application platform that was:


  • Built with resiliency, redundancy, and tolerance to failure in mind.

  • Highly tolerant to infrastructure fluctuation.

  • Highly automated to reduce the need for micromanagement of the datacenter resources.

  • Capable of automated recovery.



Using Docker and Kubernetes, OpenShift by Red Hat provides application-centric deployment, resources management, constraint-based automatic placement, and application-specific logical host abstraction that serves as a unit of scheduling. In this session, Eric will share why they chose OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat to achieve their goals.

Topics: PaaS, Portability, Performance, Reliability, Scalability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm3

Use OpenShift & PaaS to accelerate DevOps & continuous delivery

Arun GuptaDirector, Developer Advocacy And Technical Marketing, Red Hat, Inc.
Andrea MorenaSenior Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Implementing a continuous delivery and DevOps model can take time, but Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) can speed the process.

PaaS supports DevOps strategies by reducing software delivery cycle times, driving automation, and increasing efficiency. OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat makes continuous delivery easier by managing the automation that provisions platforms and deploys code on demand.

In this session, we’ll demonstrate how using continuous delivery practices with OpenShift Enterprise allows you to:


  • Deploy seamlessly from development, quality assurance (QA), user acceptance testing, and production environments.

  • Automate testing and provisioning processes.

  • Reduce risks by enabling developers, QA teams, and release teams to collaborate.

  • Create and destroy environments on demand, freeing up capacity in testing and deployment environments.

Topics: PaaS, Performance, Portability, Manageability, Interoperability, Simplicity, Modularity, Cost savings, Flexibility, Scalability, Reliability, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am2

Innovation in the large enterprise: Using Openstack, OpenShift, and automation to empower teams

Jeffrey EinhornGM RAPId Infrastructure Services, Target
Leading change in a large, profitable enterprise is challenging. You must maintain profits while constantly innovating, and balance existing corporate success against the opportunity to improve. While there's always a risk of failure with new ideas, failing to continuously improve will cause you to lose market share. For many large organizations, self-service infrastructure, Platform-as-a-Service and IT automation offers a great way to enable innovation and optimize product delivery for the business.

This session focuses on how Target is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to deliver self-service infrastructure and IT automation. In addition, I will talk about some initial success leveraging Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS platform to accelerate innovation. In this session, learn useful practices that create change across a traditional Fortune 500 company and some things to watch out for in your own transformation journey. Finally, hear highlights about Red Hat and Target's journey, as Target competes in a highly competitive retail world where the leading public cloud provider is also a major retailer.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Security, Performance, Manageability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Neutron networking with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Nir YechielTechnical Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Neutron is the project focused on delivering Networking-as-a-Service for OpenStack clouds. It’s plug-in mechanism will provide an option for network operators to enable different technologies via the Neutron API. It also lets tenants create multiple private networks and control their IP addressing configuration, as well as the ability to easily deploy advanced network services, such as routing or load-balancing.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform ships with open source plug-ins which are fully supported and tested by Red Hat. Based on their requirements and needs, customers has the option to deploy other plug-ins from our technology partners which are certified against Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and are jointly supported by Red Hat and the plug-in vendor.

In this session, we will:


  • Examine the various components of the OpenStack Neutron project.

  • Provide working examples of multiple networking configurations for clouds built with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

  • Review enhancements introduced during the latest development cycles such as IPv6 support, high availability for Neutron routers, and distributed virtual routing (DVR).

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Modularity, Interoperability, Flexibility, Performance, Manageability, Linux platforms, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm4

Enterprises and IoT

James KirklandRed Hat, Inc.
Mark LittleVP, Red Hat
Is middleware dying? As interest in mobile grows, we're starting to hear that existing middleware implementations and approaches are simply not right for the mobile developer, cloud, or the Internet of Things (IoT). Some even say these new technologies represent the death of middleware. But we think that’s a risky and short-sighted belief.

Java (particularly Java EE) plays a critical role in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and mobile solutions, and it’s also used as a platform for other languages, like Ruby, that are being adopted for use in PaaS and mobile development.

In this session, we’ll discuss why the IoT arena needs enterprise Java and show you what we’ve been doing to ensure that JBoss projects run on a variety of devices and are available to the widest group of developers.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Scalability, Modularity, Flexibility, Reliability, Interoperability, Security, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm4

Red Hat's xPaaS

Mark LittleVP, Red Hat
Diogenes RettoriProduct Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a concept most people in IT have heard about--although many still find their implementations lacking.


To take PaaS to the next level, in 2013, Red Hat announced xPaaS. The goal of this offering was to ensure that PaaS is enterprise-ready and provide seamlessly integrated products and services for developers and deployers. Version 1 was released in November 2014 and included Integration-as-a-Service(iPaaS) and A-MQ.


In this session, we'll explore:


  • The concepts behind xPaaS.


  • How xPaas builds on various other efforts such as OpenShift, Fabric8, and Docker.


  • The Future of xPaaS.


Topics: Other, Application development & integration, PaaS, Scalability, Flexibility, Interoperability, Reliability, Portability, Cost savings, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm4

Red Hat Gluster Storage: Direction, roadmap, & use cases

Jeff DarcyGlusterFS Tech Lead, Red Hat, Inc.
Sayandeb SahaHead Of Product Management, Red Hat Gluster, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Gluster Storage is open, software-defined storage that helps you manage big, unstructured, and semistructured data. This product is based on the open source project GlusterFS, a distributed scale-out file system technology, and focuses on file sharing, analytics, and hyper-converged use cases.

In this session, you will:

  • Hear real-life case studies about Red Hat Gluster Storage’s usage in production environments, including ideal workloads.

  • Learn about the Red Hat Gluster Storage roadmap, including innovations from the GlusterFS community pipeline.

  • Gain insights into how the product will be integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (including hyperconvergence), Red Hat Satellite, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.


We’ll have time for you to share your perspectives with senior business and technical leaders from the Red Hat Storage team to help shape the future of Red Hat Gluster Storage and the Gluster community.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Flexibility, Interoperability, Scalability, Simplicity, Cost savings, Reliability, Performance, Virtualization, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Red Hat Gluster Storage advanced features

Guilherme BarrosPrincipal Technical Account Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Dustin BlackPrincipal Technical Account Manager, Red Hat
In this hands-on lab, you will get a thorough look at the newest advanced features of Red Hat Gluster Storage. We’ll take you on a guided tour of some of the deeper Gluster technologies and give you practical experience working with:


  • Metadata and volume structures

  • Volume and directory quotas

  • Split-brain troubleshooting

  • Server- and client-side quorum

  • Geo-replication

  • Volume snapshots

  • Disperse volumes (erasure coding)



Expect to gain a stronger confidence in Red Hat Gluster Storage administration skills, a solid understanding of its advanced features, and a primer of practical applications in enterprise environments.

Topics: Infrastructure, Flexibility, Manageability, Simplicity, Scalability, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-2Thursday, June 253:30 pm - 5:30 pm4

Erasure coding and storage tiers in Gluster

Joseph FernandesSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Dan LambrightEngineer, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, we'll discuss new volume types in Red Hat Gluster Storage. We will talk about erasure codes and storage tiers, and how they can work together. Future directions will also be touched on, including rule based classifiers and data transformations.

You will learn about:

  • How erasure codes lower the cost of storage.

  • How to configure and manage an erasure coded volume.

  • How to tune Gluster and Linux to optimize erasure code performance.

  • Using erasure codes for archival workloads.

  • How to utilize an SSD inexpensively as a storage tier.

  • Gluster's erasure code and storage tiering design.

Topics: Infrastructure, Reliability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Performance, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
203Wednesday, June 248:00 pm - 9:00 pm3

Scale or fail: How PaaS helps scale your applications on demand

Steven PoustyPaaS Dust Spreader, Red Hat, Inc.
Whether you have 1 or 1 million visitors accessing your web app, they all demand a great user experience. They expect quick page loads and fast response times—every single time.

In this session, you will:


  • Learn different ways to scale your application with new cloud technology.

  • Take a spatial web/mapping service and watch OpenShift by Red Hat add new servers to handle the load.

  • Learn how to load test your applications and see the results.

Topics: PaaS, Scalability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm2

Enterprise containers 101

Langdon WhitePlatform Architect, Developer Experience, Red Hat, Inc.
Containers are getting a lot of buzz, both in the DevOps world and in traditional enterprise. With promises like increased uptime and faster time to market, it’s easy to see why.

But adopting such a model isn't easy and can sometimes feel like it’s only possible for high-tech, big-money companies. So, how do you get in the container game?

Join our session to learn practical, applicable information about containers. We’ll give you a step-by-step approach to containerizing an existing application and answer questions like:

  • What should we consider when designing a new application based on containers?

  • How can I get feedback on how well we containerized an application?



Additionally, we’ll present Red Hat's new container development kit. The kit offers tools and documentation about our experience with containerizing our own applications and supplying a set of enterprise-ready platforms to deploy them.

Topics: Infrastructure, Application development & integration, Flexibility, Scalability, Portability, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm2

Get the most value out of your Red Hat subscription

Kyle BensonTechnical Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Keith RobertsonEngineering Manager, Red Hat
When your software doesn’t work properly, you need ready-made tools to help you troubleshoot and quickly resolve issues. Red Hat Access Labs is a set of tools within Red Hat Customer Portal that help you find and solve your software problems.

In this session, we will:

  • Review the most popular apps that subscribers are using to resolve issues (complex config scenarios and other fun problems).

  • Give you a preview of apps that are in development.

  • Walk through a scenario of how to use Red Hat Access in-product integration points, which give you a way to use the subscription services that are integrated into Red Hat products.



There will be plenty of time to ask questions and give feedback about the apps you want added to Red Hat Access Labs and about in-product integration.

Topics: Other, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Flexibility, Cost savings, Performance, Simplicity, Manageability, Storage, Linux platforms, Middleware, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm1

Store & access your data securely with Red Hat JBoss Data Grid

Divya MehraPrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Tristan TarrantPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
The data in your data grid is precious. You restrict who has access to certain data and limit what they can do with it. You make sure only authorized systems can connect to your data grid. You confirm that your data is encrypted in memory and when it travels on the wire. You want fine- and coarse-grained control over all of the above, whether your data grid is embedded or you're accessing it over a remote protocol.

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid has all the locks, chains, and bolts that you need to satisfy your security paranoia.

In this session, we will:

  • Guide you through all of the security features of both embedded and client/server mode.

  • Show you how to integrate these security features within a secure enterprise environment.

  • Walk through how to fully secure a Red Hat JBoss Data Grid server cluster, including cluster and endpoint authentication, authorization, and auditing against a Kerberos domain.

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Interoperability, Manageability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am4

SAP integration with Red Hat JBoss Fuse

William CollinsSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat JBoss Fuse is the answer to integrating your enterprise’s widespread SAP data. This session will show you, in detail, how you can use the new, enhanced set of JBoss Fuse SAP Camel components to distribute SAP data.

In this session, you will:

  • Hear about the full suite of SAP wire protocols supported by JBoss Fuse.

  • Learn when and how to use the SAP wire protocols.

  • See a live demonstration of the full SAP integration capabilities of JBoss Fuse.

Topics: Other, Application development & integration, Cost savings, Scalability, Interoperability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm4

Applying practical manufacturing skills to DevOps

Gordon HaffCloud Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
William HenrySenior Consulting Engineer - DevOps Strategy, Red Hat, Inc.
Software development, like manufacturing, is a craft requiring creative approaches to solve problems that come with a wide range of constraints. However, while manufacturing has widely adopted standardized and automated processes to produce designs and maintain them through their life cycle, producing and maintaining applications has often remained one-off craftwork.

DevOps brings the manufacturing paradigm to software. In this session, Gordon Haff and William Henry discuss the lessons and processes that DevOps can apply from manufacturing. You’ll learn how you can use tools such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and OpenShift by Red Hat--together with collaborative processes and workflows--to enable industrialized DevOps with:

  • Robust platforms designed for modern application development and deployment.

  • The ability to design microservices-based applications using modular and reusable parts.

  • Iterative approaches to development, testing, and deployment.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Flexibility, Portability, Simplicity, Modularity, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure roadmap

Gerardus JansenRed Hat, Inc.
In this session, we’ll talk about the future of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure. We’ll give you an an overview of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and review what has been included in the latest released version.

We’ll also share a roadmap of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure’s native capabilities and give you a detailed roadmap of each of the products that make up Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Flexibility, Interoperability, Cost savings, Portability, Simplicity, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Container management at Red Hat

John HardyRed Hat CloudForms Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Itamar HeimRed Hat, Inc.
Containers hold the promise of increased portability, greater scalability, and faster application development. But how will IT operations teams manage a container-based world?

In this session, we’ll demo the new management functionality available in Red Hat's portfolio to show you how you can manage container-based workloads.

Topics: IaaS, Other, PaaS, Infrastructure, Interoperability, Simplicity, Scalability, Modularity, Manageability, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am4

Security compliance automation with Red Hat Satellite

Matthew MiceneSolution Architect, DLT Solutions
Security compliance auditing often requires someone to painstakingly check off a paper checklist, producing a spreadsheet as the end result. The policies need to be interpreted against a number of variable to see if they apply. Security compliance features in Red Hat Satellite automate these painful processes.
Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we can build local policies in a machine-readable format that can be used to automate scans. Red Hat Satellite can distribute the local content, schedule the scans, and provide a historical record of compliance.
By the end of this session, you will understand:

  • SCAP basics.

  • Building local SCAP content.

  • How to set up Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers for scans.

  • How to scan a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server with the Red Hat Satellite UI.

  • How to use the API to scan Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.

Topics: Infrastructure, Modularity, Security, Simplicity, Manageability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Open source in financial services: Meet the challenges of new business models and disruption

Vamsi ChemitigantiSr Principal Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Andrew OliverPresident & Founder, Mammoth Data, Inc.
Ian PointerMammoth Data
Joshua WestSenior Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Changing business models, Bank 3.0, and increased regulation are causing massive transformation of the financial services industry. Lines of business from consumer banking, capital markets, and wealth management are challenged to use massive amounts of data to deliver competitive advantage. IT has the job of collecting, managing, and delivering that data in real time. Cloud and big data technology have the potential to change how Red Hat and its ecosystem partners help financial services meet the challenge of providing business value and increasing agility.

This presentation will feature a live risk management demo with value added solutions for financial services utilizing Red Hat technology, Hadoop and Big Data consulting services.

Topics: Other, Security, Cost savings, Flexibility, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm2

Applied DevOps: Tools & techniques to change your enterprise

Michael McGrathSenior Principal Architect, Atomic, Red Hat, Inc.
Enterprises that want to adopt new techniques around DevOps must first answer one question: How do we get from where we are to where we want to be? Understanding how continuous delivery works is completely different than finding goals for your organization and implementing a new system.

In this session, Mike McGrath, senior principal architect for Atomic, will cover some of the lessons he’s learned from running OpenShift Online, a large public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and from talking to customers about their issues with implementing paradigm-changing technologies like Docker.

Session topics include:


  • A quick rundown of the latest and greatest tools being used in Red Hat environments.


  • Understanding how lead time impacts business.


  • Continuous integration and deployment.


  • Configuration management.


  • Deployment workflows using Docker.


  • Immutable infrastructure (and updates).


  • Techniques for early adoption in enterprise environments.




You will leave the session with a better understanding of how to use Red Hat tools to implement DevOps practices, and you’ll learn what other customers are doing with their workloads.

Topics: IaaS, PaaS, Infrastructure, Application development & integration, Scalability, Interoperability, Manageability, Cost savings, Reliability, Modularity, Simplicity, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Containers & config management (Docker & Puppet)

James ShubinConfig Mgmt. Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
The growing adoption of Linux containers, the introduction of higher-level application definition using Kubernetes, and the concept of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux atomic hosts, are creating new opportunities in the configuration management space.

What new capabilities do these components offer? How do they affect established approaches to configuration management? In this session, we’ll examine the intersection of Linux containers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, Kubernetes, and configuration management using real-world use cases and live demos.

The focus of this session will be on Puppet, but concepts will be applicable to other configuration management environments.

Topics: Other, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Security, Manageability, Modularity, Scalability, Reliability, Simplicity, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

A successful path to PaaS at University of Technology, Sydney

Stefano PicozziANZ OpenShift SME, Red Hat, Inc.
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has a multicultural student population studying a diverse range of technology disciplines. It’s the perfect setting to adopt a polyglot Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) like OpenShift by Red Hat. But successful adoption of new technology requires sensitively navigating the organizational change process.

In this session, you will learn how Red Hat has assisted organizations such as UTS solve this innovation challenge. We will describe examples such as how we made PaaS relevant by reinforcing the university’s distinctive model of practice-based learning.

We will cover an implementation methodology borne from the experience of introducing PaaS to organization such as UTS and others over the past 3 years. An approach that includes:


  • Creating a shared understanding across different constituencies.


  • Rallying around a clear action plan.


  • Delivering results quickly.





Part agile, part story, and part behavioral science, UTS was able to successfully go to pilot mode within 1 week.

Topics: PaaS, Cost savings, Scalability, Flexibility, Portability, Manageability, Simplicity, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host special interest group panel

Lans CarstensenPrincipal Engineer, Operations, DreamWorks Animation, LLC
Mark CogginSr. Director, Platforms Marketing, Red Hat
Chris CollinsSr. Linux Systems Administator, Duke University
Bob MaderSVP, Linux Engineering, Citi
John WiebalkSr. Operating System Engineer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Jacob YundtUPMC
Over the past year, Red Hat has worked directly with an elite group of customers who participated in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host special interest group (SIG).


These forward-thinking global customers are from a wide range of industries and have technologies that are required to create, deploy, and manage application containers. As part of the SIG, they became early adopters of Linux containers, collaborating with Red Hat to share product feedback and their early use cases.


In this panel discussion, participants from the special interest group will:


  • Share their perspectives on the group.


  • Discuss how they plan to deploy containers in their own environments.


  • Talk about challenges they expect to encounter and strategies for overcoming those challenges.




Topics: Application development & integration, Infrastructure, Flexibility, Cost savings, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Performance, Portability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Demystifying systemd

Ben BreardSenior Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Lennart PoetteringRed Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 brings a modern approach to many elements of the Linux operating system. One of the most significant of these updates is the adoption of systemd, which gives admins and users a host of exciting tools and functionality.

In this session, you'll learn how to get the most out of systemd in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, including:

  • How init commands translate in systemd.

  • Converting legacy init scripts.

  • Customizing service unit files.

  • Resource allocation via cgroups.

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Simplicity, Manageability, Reliability, Performance, Interoperability, Flexibility, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AThursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm4

Enterprise security with Keycloak: From the intranet to mobile

Divya MehraPrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Stian ThorgersenSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, we will discuss the challenges you will encounter when securing applications across your intranet, on the Internet, and on your mobile devices. Discover how the Keycloak project can provide solutions to those security challenges.

We will discuss how to model the security architecture of mobile and rich web applications. We will dive into how Keycloak can secure complex distributed services through federation. Finally, we will show how Keycloak can use your existing security infrastructure investments.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

Application portability & interoperability with Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure

Scott DodsonSoftware Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Brett ThurberPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Workload portability and interoperability are becoming increasingly important for organizations that want to move to new infrastructures like those based on OpenStack.

The ability to quickly deliver complex services based on multiple virtual machines in conjunction with automated configuration management across multiple providers gives organizations more choice about what infrastructure their applications will run on.

In this session, you’ll learn how Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure can be used to deploy a complex service-OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat-across multiple on-premise providers. Specifically, you’ll see how Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite can be configured to allow a self-service catalog item that deploys Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise across Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform with the click of an order button.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, PaaS, Interoperability, Portability, Linux platforms, Cloud computing, Virtualization

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm4

Highly available OpenStack deployments with NetApp & Red Hat's OpenStack platform

Jeff ApplewhiteOpenStack Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
OpenStack enables a wide variety of use cases for public, private, and hybrid clouds. But so far, it’s been difficult to actually deploy and operate in a highly available manner.

Join us to understand how Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and NetApp storage systems can be deployed to enable highly available, scalable, and cost-effective OpenStack clouds.

In the session, we will:


  • Review key architectural considerations from network and storage points of view.

  • Walk through an actual deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and NetApp’s clustered Data ONTAP.

  • Demonstrate how this environment provides a scalable, fault-resilient foundation for OpenStack.

  • Discuss customer use cases for OpenStack on NetApp with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Scalability, Reliability, Manageability, Storage, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Open, hyperconverged infrastructure

Paul CuznerPrincipal Product Marketing Manager, Storage, Red Hat, Inc.
Sean MurphyProd Mgr - Storage, Red Hat, Inc.
The next generation of IT will be built around flexible infrastructures and operational efficiencies, lowering costs and increasing overall business value in the organization.

A hyperconverged infrastructure that's built on Red Hat supported technologies--including Linux, Gluster storage, and oVirt virtualization manager--will run on commodity x86 servers using the performance of local storage, to deliver a cost-effective, modular, highly scalable, and secure hyperconverged solution.

Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Security, Modularity, Simplicity, Virtualization, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

Introducing Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.2

Keith BaboPrinicpal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Hiram ChirinoPlatform Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Integration is hard. You need a quick and easy way to robustly implement integration solutions. Red Hat JBoss Fuse solves integration problems. In this session, we’ll introduce JBoss Fuse 6.2 and the new features and functionality it provides.

In this session, you will:


  • Hear use cases of how JBoss Fuse is used to solve complex integration scenarios.

  • Learn about the new enterprise application platform Apache Camel modules, role-based access controls, Camel-based access controls, Camel components, Gateway, and more.

  • Discover how other JBoss products are integrating with JBoss Fuse.

  • Gain a better understanding of the future of JBoss Fuse.

Topics: Application development & integration, Performance, Simplicity, Manageability, Reliability, Cost savings, Flexibility, Interoperability, Portability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: KVM now & in the future

Karen NoelSenior Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, embedded in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and based on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology, provides the virtualization stack.

In this session, the engineering manager of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization team will discuss current KVM features found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host systems.

We’ll share a sneak peek of upcoming KVM features, including those related to network functions virtualization (NFV) and KVM on Power8, and give you time to offer your feedback to the engineering team.

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Scalability, Modularity, Manageability, Reliability, Performance, Flexibility, Virtualization, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AThursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm4

Get unstuck with JBoss: An evolutionary approach

John LiptakPrincipal Architect, CenturyLink
Starting in 2011, CenturyLink began migrating its middleware from proprietary products to open source middleware, deploying Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server. In the years that followed, CenturyLink adopted Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Server, and Red Hat JBoss Fuse.

Their deployment environment has also evolved from a dense, stacked environment to a virtualized model that just recently began supporting Fabric8.

In this session, we’ll share about the successes, failures, and lessons we learned in this migration process. You’ll learn:


  • Hear secrets to winning battles about standardization and architecting for success.

  • Understand what it took to operate a migration factory based on Windup.

  • Learn about the wide range of applications that were migrated.

Topics: Application development & integration, Performance, Manageability, Cost savings, Flexibility, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am3

Accelerate DevOps with OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Trevor QuinnSenior Domain Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
While DevOps doesn't require cloud technologies, certain cloud offerings like Platform-as-a-Service provide a critical framework for the kind of automation that makes real DevOps transformation happen.

DevOps involves rethinking the relationships between development, quality assurance (QA), and operations teams and changing how we manage the workloads of these teams. But behind all the kanbans, WIP analysis, and A/B split testing, there is a set of technology choices that can foster or hinder software delivery. PaaS can be an important accelerator for DevOps implementation.

In this session, we’ll give you a short primer on DevOps, explaining how some people see DevOps as a merging of development and operational roles, while others view it as delivery process optimization.

From there, we’ll show you how DevOps and PaaS intersect in OpenShift by Red Hat. Through a demo and discussion, we’ll show how PaaS accelerates the following DevOps practices:


  • Infrastructure as code

  • Deployment pipelines

  • Just-in-time application platform delivery

  • Automation to relieve delivery constraints

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Scalability, Manageability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am2

Cisco delivers a highly available platform using OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat

Srinivas KotaruIT Engineer, Cisco Systems
Michael WhiteIT Architect, Cisco Systems
The Cisco Application and Web Services (AWS) team operates the middleware
infrastructure that hosts thousands of web applications. Many of these business-critical apps required nearly 100% uptime. In early 2014, the AWS team deployed OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat as its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. The team had to ensure high availability of the platform before moving business-critical applications to it.

Cisco’s solution uses features in OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 along with custom automation and request routing. The platform is now capable of running applications in active/active mode, across multiple datacenters, in multiple geographies. Application developers can choose the deployment topology that best meets their availability requirements. Options range from single datacenter deployments to multiple datacenter deployments with stand-by DR. At the highest level of resiliency, critical applications are able to withstand the total failure of 2 datacenters with no human intervention.

Attend this session for a technical review of how Cisco used OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 features including regions, zones, and HA features to build this highly available platform. Learn about Cisco’s custom, flexible routing layer and the automation strategies that shield developers from infrastructure complexity.

By applying the techniques described in this session, you too can run critical business applications with high availability on your OpenShift Enterprise platform.

Topics: Infrastructure, PaaS, Scalability, Flexibility, Reliability, Manageability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform: Life cycle, roadmap, & partner ecosystem

Stephen GordonSr. Technical Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Bill MasonDirector, Partner Strategy And Programs, Red Hat, Inc.
OpenStack is rapidly evolving, and the upstream open source community releases a new version every 6 months. Red Hat is transforming OpenStack from a loosely coupled array of technology components into a tightly integrated, fully managed, and supported product with an extended product life cycle, delivered to customers as Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

Updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform include capabilities to make the product carrier grade and tighter integration with the broader Red Hat product portfolio, including Red Hat Storage, OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, and Red Hat CloudForms.

Attend this session to learn more about:

  • The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform product life cycle and roadmap.

  • Red Hat’s process of graduating new components to become fully supported.

  • How Red Hat is building the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform partner ecosystem.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Flexibility, Manageability, Modularity, Interoperability, Scalability, Cost savings, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

Open source & network functions virtualization

Dave NearySDN/NFV Community Startegy, Red Hat, Inc.
Network functions virtualization (NFV) has overwhelmed the telecommunications industry since the phrase was coined in 2012. Red Hat has taken a prominent role in defining, developing, and delivering an OpenStack-based platform that will meet the needs of telecommunications service providers as they migrate core services from physical to virtual infrastructures.

This session will introduce you to the de facto standard NFV platform being defined in the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) project. We’ll review the work that Red Hat leads in OpenStack, OpenDaylight, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM), Open vSwitch, and other projects to create a viable, 100% open source NFV platform.

Topics: IaaS, Cost savings, Performance, Other, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

OpenStack with Cisco & Red Hat

Duane DeCapiteDirector, Product Management, Cisco Systems
Karthik PrabhakarGlobal Cloud Technologist, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat and Cisco are collaborating to enable smoother OpenStack deployments in enterprise environments.
In this session, we’ll summarize the key initiatives and integration between Red Hat and Cisco and discuss how customers benefit from the partnership. We’ll provide an overview of UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Red Hat OpenStack (UCSO), including Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Nexus, and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

In this session, you will:

  • Find out why OpenStack is a top priority for CIOs and CTOs.

  • Discover how Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform works with Cisco
    datacenter and networking product lines, including UCS, Nexus, and ACI, and
    benefit from the capabilities that differentiate the Cisco and Red Hat solution.

  • Understand the status of various Cisco contributions to OpenStack and their value in real-world customer deployments.

  • Hear how to plan and complete a pilot to production rollout of OpenStack, using best practices from customers’ experiences.

Topics: Other, IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Interoperability, Manageability, Modularity, Simplicity, Flexibility, Scalability, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud computing, Linux platforms, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Migrate from Red Hat Satellite 5 to Red Hat Satellite 6

Richard JerridoPrincipal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Tomas LestachSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat Czech s.r.o.
Clifford PerrySenior Engineering Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
This hands-on lab gives you the skills and knowledge you need to execute a successful migration from Red Hat Satellite 5 to Red Hat Satellite 6. We’ll talk about what you need to consider when planning a migration and show you how to use migration tooling in Red Hat Satellite.

We’ll show you how to use tools for the following areas:


  • Users, groups, and orgs

  • Cloned channels, custom channels, and content

  • Activation keys

  • Kickstart scripts

  • Configuration file and channels to Puppet modules

  • Re-registration of client systems to Red Hat Satellite 6


Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Scalability, Flexibility, Manageability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-3Friday, June 269:00 am - 11:00 am3

Simplify middleware migrations with Windup

Lincoln Baxter IIIPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Windup is a tool that simplifies Java application migrations by auditing application artifacts and reporting on areas that require change. The tool decreases the level of effort in planning and migrating from proprietary platforms to Red Hat JBoss Middleware, lowering the risk and cost of large-scale migration. More importantly, Windup does this automatically, without requiring an army of engineers to painstakingly review existing code for potential migration roadblocks.

In this session, we’ll discuss Windup’s capabilities, techniques for successfully migrating a large-scale Java platform, and strategies for approaching a migration project.

We’ll do a demonstration of the tool’s built-in functionality and show you how to:


  • Extend the tool to meet custom needs in your own environments.


  • Use Windup to perform a migration analysis.


  • Write rules and extend Windup for your own custom needs.





This session is useful for organizational leaders who wants to know more about large-scale migrations and for the architects, managers, and developers who are responsible for completing the migration.

Topics: Other, Application development & integration, Cost savings, Other, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Successful migrations lab: Java EE

Lincoln Baxter IIIPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Robert GreathouseChief Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
Tobias HartwigEMEA Business Unit Manager, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, Red Hat, Inc.
Peter MuirManager, Software Engineering, Red Hat
Join experts from the JBoss Windup and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) teams as they discuss and demonstrate using JBoss Windup to assist with Java EE migrations from JBoss EAP 5 to JBoss EAP 6.


We’ll focus on Windup as a code-analysis and solution-recommendation tool, and will give you unmatched insight about how to use Windup to streamline the migration process.


This hands-on lab will cover the following topics:


  • What's new in Red Hat JBoss EAP 6?


  • Application analysis and understanding Windup


  • Performing a large-scale migration from JBoss EAP 5 to JBoss EAP 6


  • Solving problems and extending Windup to meet unique needs in your own environments


  • Discussion and lessons learned





With hands-on training from the engineers responsible for developing JBoss EAP and JBoss Windup, this is the best opportunity to understand and implement a migration solution in your own environment.

Topics: Application development & integration, Other, Portability, Reliability, Cost savings, Other, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-1Wednesday, June 243:30 pm - 5:30 pm4

Raising the bar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 lab

Ben BreardSenior Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Eddie ChenSolutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Christoph DoerbeckPrincipal Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Rick RingRed Hat
Mike WatkinsRed Hat, Inc.
Rob WilmothSenior Solutions Architect, Red Hat
In this hands-on lab, Red Hat field solution architects will lead you through a series of steps created to give you a higher understanding of the new, updated features and capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1.

In the lab, we’ll cover the following topics:


  • Service startup and management with systemd


  • Live kernel patching (kpatch)


  • System performance tuning and monitoring


  • Container management with Docker


  • Dynamic firewall with firewalld


  • Storage topics, including logical volume managers (LVM), RAID, snapshots, and thin provisioning


  • Overview of the network manager's CLI (nmcli)

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Performance, Portability, Reliability, Scalability, Interoperability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-3Wednesday, June 2410:30 am - 12:30 pm3

Demystifying the IoT: Real-time purchase monetization with Red Hat JBoss Middleware

Eric GetchellRed Hat, Inc.
Zohaib KhanPrincipal Domain Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Digital ubiquity is touching every aspect of our lives--from how we have fun to how we conduct business. In this new age of Internet of Everything, businesses must rethink the way they create value and capture needs.

As businesses operate around the clock, it’s critical that mobile integration happens in a time- and cost-sensitive manner. To stay relevant, businesses must use their existing assets and integrate them into new architectures that support mobile devices.

In this session, we’ll present a scenario in which credit card purchases can be monetized in real time to generate new revenue streams via mobile notifications.

We’ll show you how to immediately tap into new revenue streams by using your existing systems and services to quickly integrate with these mobile-supported devices. We’ll also demonstrate how Red Hat technologies enable you to easily build such a monetization engine and scale it up in a public or private cloud to deal with demand surges in real time.

Bring your smart phones to connect with the live demo.

Topics: Application development & integration, PaaS, Interoperability, Scalability, Simplicity, Other, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am2

Red Hat high availability clustering with Pacemaker

Steven BonnevilleManager, Curriculum Development, Red Hat, Inc.
Rudolf KastlCurriculum Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
When your company’s important services are down, productivity suffers, customer satisfaction is hurt, and you lose money. System administrators are responsible for making sure services are resilient to avoid service downtimes.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Add-on uses the Pacemaker cluster software to add redundancy to important services, thereby eliminating single points of failure.

In this session, get an introduction to the clustering software provided by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 High Availability Add-on.

Topics: Infrastructure, Scalability, Reliability, Simplicity, Cost savings, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm3
Ballroom B-4Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am3

The journey of putting Red Hat JBoss EAP onto OpenShift 3

Aleš JustinSr. Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Marko LuksaRed Hat
When OpenShift moved to Kubernetes and Docker, we had to figure out how to put Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) onto latest version of OpenShift.

In this session, we’ll explain how we accomplished this move and how we answered the following questions:


  • How does Docker work?

  • What’s the easiest and best way to create JBoss EAP images?

  • What is Kubernetes?

  • How do I use Docker and Kubernetes if I don’t run on Linux?

  • Will JBoss EAP clustering work out-of-the-box?

  • How do I manage all of this?

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Scalability, Virtualization, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm3

Building a high-performing decision engine at Deloitte Digital

Andrew McKeeLead Developer, Deloitte Digital
During this session, learn how Deloitte Digital created a customizable Drools-based solution that allowed for both user-manageable business logic and a responsive user experience. And it did so while maintaining a complex rules set of over 15,000 lines.

In this session, hear about Deloitte’s experience with using Red Hat JBoss BRMS and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to build a highly scalable survey tool capable of producing complex decision trees and logic.

Learn what did and didn’t work for their team. And hear about the pitfalls associated with large rule sets.

Topics: Application development & integration, Simplicity, Flexibility, Cost savings, Performance, Scalability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm4

UPS automates manual processes with Red Hat JBoss Fuse

Jeff NealApplication Architect, UPS
The organic growth of IT systems over the years has created an environment where many information systems have their own localized data and rules. These isolated systems require users to perform manual processes to keep data synchronized and ensure accurate events are captured.

Until recently, UPS workers had to maintain events manually in multiple systems--a time-consuming, labor-intensive process.

UPS adopted Red Hat JBoss Fuse to integrate legacy systems and introduce advanced automation in their systems. As a result, UPS reduced the manual work required to manage the dispatch processes at its facilities and gained insights to . In addition, by consolidating information sources from legacy systems, decision makers have better insight to help them make real-time operational decisions.

In this session, you will learn about the:


  • Application architecture used to create a large-scale integration solution.

  • Technologies applied and approaches implemented to set the stage for future modernization.

  • Results of the integration and future direction.

Topics: Application development & integration, Other, Modularity, Flexibility, Cost savings, Manageability, Reliability, Scalability, Interoperability, Performance, Linux platforms, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Build an enterprise application in 60 minutes with JBoss Middleware

Kenneth PeeplesJBoss Technology Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
Javier PerezDirector Of Product Management And Global Consulting, Red Hat, Inc.
Phil SimpsonPrincipal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
As businesses seek new ways to engage their customers, the demand for new applications increases. To meet the growing demand, IT is turning to new application development approaches, like DevOps, to quickly develop features.

By using certain middleware technologies, DevOps teams can collaboratively and rapidly develop and manage applications that engage customers and connect to back-end services and legacy systems.

In this session, we’ll demonstrate how 3 middleware technologies--integration, business process management (BPM), and mobile--can be brought together in the cloud to support the development of context-aware, process-enabled, connected mobile apps.

Through a real-word use case, we’ll demonstrate:


  • Development and deployment of an enterprise mobile app using Red Hat Mobile Application Platform.

  • Inclusion of captured mobile information into business processes with Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite.

  • Integration of automated processes with legacy applications and systems of record with JBoss integration solutions, including Apache Camel.

  • Automation of business decisions guided by business rules.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Simplicity, Scalability, Interoperability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am2

Business process automation roadmap: Tackle application backlogs with BPM

Prakash AradhyaProduct Management Director, Red Hat, Inc.
Mark ProctorPlatform Architect, Red Hat
Phil SimpsonPrincipal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
More companies are adopting BPM business process management (BPM) solutions to improve efficiency and agility of business operations.

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite, which includes BPM, business rules (BRMS), and complex event processing (CEP) functionality, is evolving to stay ahead of rapidly changing market requirements. Combined, these technologies enable IT and business experts to automate and optimize a wide range of processes spanning desktop applications, legacy systems, and mobile devices.

In this session, we’ll highlight the capabilities, vision, and roadmap for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite. We’ll discuss and demonstrate key features, including:


  • New, intuitive tools for collaborative process modeling, rules authoring, and form design.

  • Process analysis and simulation.

  • Task management and process monitoring.

  • Graphical dashboards for business activity monitoring.



You will gain a solid understanding of the capabilities and direction of the product, and will be ready to use the free developer subscription to evaluate it for your own needs.

Topics: Application development & integration, Flexibility, Simplicity, Manageability, Scalability, Cost savings, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux roadmap

Denise DumasVP, Operating System, Red Hat, Inc.
Get an overview of the new features, updates, and plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the people who know it best--the engineering management team.


This session covers what to expect from:


  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6


  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7


  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host


  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux MRG Realtime


  • New architectures





We’ll also discuss the emerging trends and technologies from the upstream community that will inform Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Topics: Infrastructure, Flexibility, Interoperability, Cost savings, Reliability, Simplicity, Manageability, Performance, Scalability, Security, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm2

Red Hat Gluster Storage as a hybrid storage solution for Splunk Enterprise

Akil CrawfordDirector, Data Security, Function1
Sandeep KhanejaVice President, Business Development, Function1
Splunk, an industry leader in big data analytics, lets users turn massive amounts of data into knowledge, and that knowledge into power. Because Splunk makes intelligence, like trends and anomalies, easy to obtain, companies are aiming to store larger amounts of data for longer periods of time. But this storage has traditionally been expensive, and new data replaces legacy and historical data. The more data is lost, the less effective Splunk's pattern recognition and anomaly detection becomes.

This session reviews a few of the top trends in big data analytics. You will also learn how Red Hat Gluster Storage provides affordable, scalable storage for more data and more insight.

Topics: Infrastructure, Other, Cost savings, Flexibility, Performance, Simplicity, Security, Modularity, Reliability, Scalability, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm2

The speed of business: Performance techniques for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite

Salem ElrahalConsultant, Red Hat, Inc.
As businesses try to improve operational efficiency, they’re increasingly adopting business process management (BPM) solutions as part of their core software stack. Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is a lightweight, flexible solution that meets the needs of a diverse set of business requirements and is designed to address even the most demanding use cases.

In this session, we’ll present patterns for implementing highly-available, scalable solutions using the JBoss BPM Suite platform. We will highlight what you need to consider when planning and constructing the ideal environment for process execution, including:


  • Horizontal scale-out


  • Database partitioning


  • load balancing


  • BPM platform tuning


  • Connection pooling


  • High availability


  • Virtual machine configuration




We’ll also demonstrate, in real-time, the execution of tens of thousands of concurrent processes. The technical demonstration will use JBoss BPM Suite, the Red Hat JBoss Fuse ESB (Camel and AMQ), WebSockets, and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Topics: Application development & integration, Other, Performance, Reliability, Scalability, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am3

IKEA vs. Shellshock: 1-0

Magnus GlantzProduct Responsible, IKEA
Mattias HaernSolutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
With a large installed base of servers, patching can become a nightmare--especially when you have to patch urgently. In this session, learn how 2 people at IKEA were able to patch 3500+ Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, spread over 400 sites, 35 countries, and 4 continents, within hours.

Experts from Red Hat and IKEA will:

  • Discuss IKEA's Linux-based standard operating environment (SOE), identifying key features, processes, and blueprints that enable IKEA to handle its installed base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

  • Quickly review workloads and environments.

  • Walk through the key documentation and processes for IKEA’s SOE.

  • Share examples of specific kickstart code and configurations used in the SOE to enable key features.

  • Describe how IKEA maintains crucial PCI-DSS compliance using the SOE.

  • We’ll give you tips about how to assemble your own reliable, cost-efficient Red Hat Enterprise Linux SOE, including hands-on technical solutions, processes, and blueprints --all based on real-world challenges and solutions.

Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Security, Modularity, Simplicity, Manageability, Reliability, Scalability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Atomic architectures & containerized, application-centric IT

Michael McGrathSenior Principal Architect, Atomic, Red Hat, Inc.
Jack RiedenRed Hat, Inc.
Daniel RiekSr. Director Systems Design & Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat wants to help customers transition from a traditional monolithic operating system to a containerized, application-centric model that creates a multi-instance, multiversion, and multitennant environment. Using technologies like Linux containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and systemd, the Atomic architecture implements this vision.


This session provides:


  • An overview of the architectural principles and current state of the Atomic architecture in the context of application-centric IT.


  • Details of the products that implement its concepts.


  • A semi-technical review of the ongoing developments of containers.





This overview session serves as the entry-point for a variety of separate, more technical sessions about containerization.

Topics: Infrastructure, Application development & integration, Cost savings, Scalability, Flexibility, Simplicity, Performance, Portability, Security, Manageability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

High-performance OpenStack for science and data analytics

Steven CarterArchitect, Cisco Systems
Openstack provides an optimal platform for high-performance workloads such as those used in science and data analytics. This session details architectures and techniques for undertaking technical- and data-intensive computing in OpenStack. In particular, we will focus on:

  • “Science DMZ” for wide-area data transfers.

  • Hybrid computing between private and public clouds (e.g. AWS).

  • Scale-out file and object storage.

  • Topologies for high-speed, low-latency communication between instances.

  • Platform choice, containers, hardware accelerators, and bare metal workloads.

  • The use of resources schedulers such as Slurm and Mesos.



In addition, we’ll examine the use cases for OpenStack at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Topics: PaaS, Infrastructure, IaaS, Cost savings, Flexibility, Interoperability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

A guide for OpenShift 3 developers

Steven PoustyPaaS Dust Spreader, Red Hat, Inc.
Grant ShipleySr. Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat, Inc.
Linux containers like Docker have quickly emerged as key open source application packaging and delivery technologies. They combine lightweight application isolation with the flexibility of an image-based deployment method. OpenShift 3 is based on Docker images, which improves developer flow.

In this code-heavy workshop, you will:


  • Do some local Java development with a Wildfly Docker container.

  • Publish the application to OpenShift.

  • Add a postgresql Docker container to your application on OpenShift.

  • Wire it all together into a fully functioning application.



We will leave you with some steps you can take on your own, such as adding a caching Docker container or an ActiveMQ message queue.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Flexibility, Scalability, Cost savings, Simplicity, Modularity, Portability, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
202Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 4:30 pm3

Red Hat's container roadmap

Michael McGrathSenior Principal Architect, Atomic, Red Hat, Inc.
Ron PachecoRed Hat, Inc.
This session will provide an overview of Red Hat’s roadmap for containerization across our product portfolio to create an atomic application architecture.

Join us to learn how container technology spans all of Red Hat advanced infrastructure solutions--from Red Hat Enterprise Atomic Host to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to Openshift by Red Hat. And see how these platforms integrate with other Red Hat products, including our management offerings.

Topics: Application development & integration, Infrastructure, Reliability, Scalability, Portability, Performance, Manageability, Security, Cost savings, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Red Hat Mobile Application Platform architecture & integration with OpenShift

Mícheál Ó FoghlúCTO FeedHenry By Red Hat, Red Hat, Inc.
Get an overview of the architecture of Red Hat Mobile Application Platform. Through integration with Red Hat JBoss Middleware, it’s now possible to stage the server-side code of running applications-Node.js code with associated caching and data storage-in an OpenShift deployment, including OpenShift Online by Red Hat.

Join our session to hear how existing OpenShift Online users can access this new offering and explore the potential for using the combined offering to address the key challenges in enterprise mobility.

Topics: Application development & integration, PaaS, Other, Security, Scalability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Manageability, Simplicity, Interoperability, Performance, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Red Hat security in a post-Shellshock world

Joshua BressersRed Hat, Inc.
No one can ignore the severity and number of major security incidents over the past year. From Shellshock and Poodle, to Heartbleed and other major corporate incidents, security is quickly becoming a top priority for corporate IT.

Red Hat constantly evolves our industry-leading security response services to help customers adapt to the new and changing landscape of security incidents. Every security event helps us better understand future challenges and leads to new and better ways to handle those challenges.

In this session, we will cover the basics of how Red Hat product security works and how we are expanding for the future. We will focus on events like Shellshock and Heartbleed and explain how customers can best be prepared for the next major incident.

We want to hear feedback about what matters most to you when it comes to being prepared for security breaches. Come with questions, suggestions, and ideas on ways Red Hat can help you better deal with these events.

Topics: Infrastructure, Simplicity, Security, Flexibility, Manageability, Virtualization, Storage, Middleware, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Red Hat CloudForms roadmap

John HardyRed Hat CloudForms Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat CloudForms is the leading open source cloud management platform. In this session, we’ll tell you the short-term and medium-term goals for the product, so you can implement or better manage your existing hybrid infrastructure services.

Whether you are running bare metal, virtual machines or containers, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or even Docker, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or Microsoft HyperV, understanding the CloudForms roadmap will enable you to plan your future.

Topics: PaaS, IaaS, Infrastructure, Manageability, Simplicity, Modularity, Interoperability, Flexibility, Performance, Portability, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Cost savings, Other, Virtualization, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

Managing software & errata deployment with Red Hat Satellite 6

Chen ChangCurriculum Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Scott McBrienRed Hat
Red Hat Satellite 6 has several new features that simplify the deployment of software and errata in large enterprise environments. These features include life-cycle environments, content views, and content view filters.

In this session, we’ll demonstrate the use of life-cycle environments in conjunction with content views to manage the deployment of software and errata in stages to managed systems. We’ll show you how you can use content view filters to perform software selection by package or package group name and select errata by errata ID or errata release date.

You will receive hands-on experience managing the deployment of software and errata to managed systems in different work phases of the SDLC through the process of content view publication and promotion to life-cycle environments.

Topics: Infrastructure, Manageability, Simplicity, Scalability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm4
Ballroom B-4Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm4

Introduction to Red Hat Mobile Application Platform

Cathal McGloinVice President & General Manager Mobile Platforms, Red Hat
Javier PerezDirector Of Product Management And Global Consulting, Red Hat, Inc.
The adoption of mobile devices and mobile apps has revolutionized how enterprises interact with employees, customers, and partners across all business processes. Businesses need to rethink the technologies, services, and methodologies they use to support their mobile strategies.

Mobile application platforms have emerged and give companies the ability to:


  • Accelerate the development of app projects across the business.

  • Reduce the complexity of connecting to multiple back-end systems.

  • Deploy across multiple devices.

  • Manage the control of security, policy, and authentication of these apps.




In this session, we’ll introduce Red Hat Mobile Application Platform and highlight the product features, high-level architecture, and benefits this new product brings to the enterprise mobile strategy.

Topics: Other, Application development & integration, Flexibility, Cost savings, Security, Scalability, Interoperability, Simplicity, Manageability, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm2

Integrating microservices with Apache Camel & Fabric8

Christian PostaRed Hat, Inc.
Microservices architectures are incredibly popular these days, but we have to balance hype with reality. Microservices make it harder to manage your deployments and create complex inter-service communications patterns. How do you balance the tradeoffs and focus on getting the most out of your investment in highly scalable, decoupled systems?

Join this session to learn how to use service-oriented architecture patterns to build out intelligent routing systems with Apache Camel. We’ll show you how to use centralized management, service discovery, versioning, and tooling support from Red Hat JBoss Fuse to manage complex integrations using a microservices approach.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Build your modern, portable PaaS platforms with containers & Kubernetes

Craig McLuckieProduct Manager, Google
The introduction of Linux application container technologies (like Docker), and container orchestrators (like Kubernetes) have radically simplified the deployment and management of composite applications.

Modern Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms like OpenShift make use of these technologies to offer higher levels of portability and efficiency than ever before.

In this session, learn about the emerging new abstractions in application deployment and management and the benefits of these abstractions to customers who are building modern, distributed applications.

Topics: Other, PaaS, Application development & integration, Simplicity, Modularity, Interoperability, Manageability, Portability, Flexibility, Scalability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am2

OpenShift 3 & the next generation of PaaS

Ashesh BadaniRed Hat, Inc.
Clayton ColemanLead Engineer, OpenShift, Red Hat, Inc.
Joe FernandesDirector Of Product Management, Red Hat, Inc.
Matt HicksRed Hat
OpenShift 3 is the next major evolution of the OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform. Built around a core of application containers powered by Docker, with orchestration and management based on Kubernetes, and running on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Atomic Host, OpenShift 3 brings a host of new capabilities to accelerate application delivery and enable DevOps.


In this session, you will:


  • Get a sneak preview of OpenShift 3 and see it in action.


  • Learn what's new, how it works, and what to expect next.


  • Discover how OpenShift uses the latest advances in open source and cloud technologies to transform your application development and deployment processes.


Topics: PaaS, Portability, Scalability, Simplicity, Flexibility, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Cloud automation: Migrating 1000+ servers from vCloud to OpenStack

Lan ChenSenior Consultant, Red Hat, Inc.
Bill HelgesonPrinciple Domain Architect - Cloud, Red Hat, Inc.
James MighionConsultant, Red Hat, Inc.
OpenStack is gaining traction as the leading open source cloud-computing platform. Many customers want to migrate away from their existing platforms to OpenStack to save money and gain flexibility and agility.

In this session, we’ll show you how a large organization used a combination of Red Hat CloudForms and the virt-v2v tool to efficiently migrate over 1,000 virtual machines (VM) from vCloud to OpenStack. The key is automation.

CloudForms inventories current VMs and content, the migration steps are built as a CloudForms state machine, and the entire process is automated. As part of the process, virt-v2v tool is used to convert the VMWare images into a format that can be loaded onto OpenStack and launched as an instance. With this tool, we were able to migrate many virtual machines simultaneously with the click of a button.

You will learn about:


  • Infrastructure setup of the migration environment with vSphere, CloudForms, and OpenStack.

  • Automated migration via CloudForms.

  • Using the virt-v2v tool for VM conversion while maintaining existing network settings.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Cost savings, Portability, Interoperability, Manageability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

Real-world perspectives: Managing infrastructures with Red Hat Satellite

Will DartonSystems Engineer IV, Navy Federal Credit Union
Eric PronkoOperating Systems Engineer, UPMC
Ross StoutTechnical Domain Architect, Credit Suisse
Joshua TofflerChief Architect, Defense Engineering Inc.
Todd WarnerProduct Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Join this panel to learn how some of our customers are using Red Hat Satellite in real-world scenarios. Red Hat Satellite is a popular, easy-to-use systems management platform that manages tens, hundreds, and even thousands of servers as easily as managing one.

Interact freely with panel members to explore their experiences with Red Hat Satellite 6, learn how they transitioned from Red Hat Satellite 5, see how they integrate with other processes, and more.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Flexibility, Manageability, Modularity, Virtualization, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm2

Performance of OpenStack Cinder on Ceph

Benjamin EnglandPerformance Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Mark NelsonCeph Performance Lead, Red Hat
This session describes how to get the most out of OpenStack Cinder volumes on Ceph.

We’ll discuss:


  • Performance configuration, tuning, and workloads.

  • Performance test results of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2.3, and Firefly.

  • Anticipated improvements in performance for Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3.

Topics: Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, Cost savings, Reliability, Manageability, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Process-driven application development using Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite

Prakash AradhyaProduct Management Director, Red Hat, Inc.
Alexandre PorcelliRed Hat Inc
Enabling business users to update their applications and processes is an integral part of business automation. Doing so requires rich client web technology and a powerful workbench to customize and extend business rules management (BRM) and business process management (BPM) solutions.

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is a flexible and powerful BPM platform, offering business process modeling, execution, and monitoring capabilities for numerous use cases. It can be used in different environments, and, as a result, the platform can be integrated in multiple architectures and configured in detail. The platform can be customized to provide customer-specific enhancements.

In this session, you will:

  • View a live process-driven application demo.

  • Discover the top technical things you need to know about the latest version of JBoss BPM Suite.

  • Get answers to some of the most asked questions.

  • Learn the truth about BPM myths.

  • Find out what’s next for JBoss BPM Suite.

Topics: Application development & integration, Other, Cost savings, Scalability, Flexibility, Interoperability, Manageability, Performance, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AWednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

OpenShift: Understand regions & zones

Grant ShipleySr. Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, Grant Shipley, author of Learning OpenShift, will examine regions and zones, an often-misunderstood and rarely used concept in OpenShift.

Through discussions and demos, you will:


  • See real work examples of applications that are deployed in multiple regions.

  • Get an in-depth review of the scaling algorithm.

  • View OpenShift nodes in different geographies and see how to scale applications across those datacenters.



Watch a demo of how to move applications between development, quality assurance (QA), and production environments.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Solving integration problems with JBoss Fuse

Peter BlinstrubasSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Scott England-SullivanPrincipal Domain Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session we will discuss why Red Hat JBoss Fuse was selected as the ESB at a major healthcare company. We'll discuss the core technologies we use in JBoss Fuse, as well as describe the types of integration problems we are addressing and the benefits that JBoss Fuse provides. We will also talk about our deployment architecture and how we manage it with Fabric8.

Topics: Application development & integration, Flexibility, Simplicity, Interoperability, Scalability, Cost savings, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

How DevOps and microservices impact your application architecture and development

Arun GuptaDirector, Developer Advocacy And Technical Marketing, Red Hat, Inc.
Christina WongPrincipal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Due to the demands of our hyperconnected, internet-driven economy, users expect speedy delivery of new features, highly engaging personalized user experiences, and smooth, streamlined performance.

Traditional approaches to development are no longer competitive, with the new focus on simplicity, usability, and large-scale DevOps agility. In order to thrive, development teams must adjust to deliver high-quality applications fast.

This session will discuss:


  • The traditional monolith application vs. the modern application.

  • Architectural considerations for the modern application.

  • How trends such as DevOps, microservices, and HTML5 affect application design today.

  • Tools, technologies, and techniques for building modern applications.

  • Relevant highlights from JBoss community projects.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Modularity, Simplicity, Manageability, Interoperability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Scalability, Reliability, Portability, Performance, Security, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm2

Why real integration developers ride Camels

Kenneth PeeplesJBoss Technology Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
Christian PostaRed Hat, Inc.
Apache Camel is a powerful integration framework that is the foundation of popular open source integration platforms like JBoss Fuse.

While the open community, analysts, and our customers agree that Apache Camel is better for integration, some people choose proprietary competitor products because they’re not sure what Apache Camel can do.

In this session, we’ll clear up the misconceptions. We’ll focus on areas that competitors feel are weaknesses, and address why Apache Camel and JBoss Fuse are ideal choices for integrating applications, systems, and microservices.

Topics: Application development & integration, Flexibility, Manageability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC): Lessons learned & best practices

Brent HoldenChief Field Architect, East, Red Hat, Inc.
Jan Mark HolzerSenior Consulting Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Orran KriegerFounding Director Cloud Computing Initiative, Boston University
The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) is a public cloud based on a new model that allows many companies and institutions to participate in its implementation and operation. MOC brings multiple vendors together within a single infrastructure. This model fosters collaboration and interoperability, enabling interested parties to work together and explore new computing models.

Red Hat and several industry partners have joined the effort and been instrumental in the initial implementation of MOC.

This session offers an overview of the MOC architecture and its evolving blueprint to build a multi-vendor cloud infrastructure.

We’ll explore:

  • Architecture decisions and guidance considerations for scale, operations, and upgrades.

  • Lessons learned from the initial deployment, including issues with shared infrastructure and the scope of trust.

  • Solutions for integrating existing hardware provisioning.

  • Use cases for applications deployed on the MOC cloud, ranging from big data analytics, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and others.

Topics: PaaS, Infrastructure, IaaS, Performance, Portability, Reliability, Modularity, Flexibility, Interoperability, Manageability, Cloud computing, Virtualization, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Out with the old: How Red Hat CloudForms improves management & orchestration while using legacy automation systems

Mert CubukcuogluEngineering Manager, Intuit Inc.
Nick LaneRed Hat
Earl WaudSr. Systems Engineer, Intuit
Intuit, Inc., was trying to maintain and advance their home-grown provisioning platform to keep pace with the growing demands of their internal customers. But they couldn’t keep up. They had to decide whether to continue developing their internal tool or turn to a product.


Intuit evaluated numerous products, searching for a solution that would mimic existing features and unique environmental constraints, absorb pre-existing environments and their associated metadata (Brownfield absorption), increase ROI and scalability, and easily with disparate tooling and services.


After an extensive evaluation process, Intuit chose to replace their existing provisioning platform with Red Hat CloudForms. They haven't looked back.


In 6 months, Intuit, with help from Red Hat Consulting, retired their legacy provisioning system and moved to CloudForms. It currently has one of the largest implementations of Red Hat CloudForms, with over 20,000 virtual machines in a complex, highly secure, multisite topology.


In this session, we’ll discuss how Intuit moved their legacy systems to CloudForms, with a focus on:


  • Enhancements such as integration with IPAM, escalations, HPSA, ServiceNow, network automation, and Chef that were unavailable in Intuit’s legacy tool.


  • A new design that enables CloudForms operators to administer the entire multi-datacenter infrastructure from a single point.


  • How CloudForms is used to absorb the old system's data and its current use in the environment.





  • Obstacles the team faced during implementation of the solution and how they overcame them.


Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Scalability, Modularity, Interoperability, Flexibility, Manageability, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

Cloud architecture & performance workloads: Why, how, & when?

Jeremy EderPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Matthew SmithSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
The conversation around computational workloads hasn’t traditionally included both “cloud” and “performance” at the same time. But this is beginning to change.

Several technologies are maturing to allow the deployment of performance-sensitive workloads while also offering the benefits of a cloud architecture.

In this session, we’ll tell you what to consider when thinking about deploying a private cloud to host performance-sensitive workloads. We’ll look at ways that Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are changing the conversation about computation workloads.

Finally, we’ll share insight into the current progress happening in cloud architecture and performance workloads.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Flexibility, Scalability, Manageability, Security, Performance, Linux platforms, Cloud computing, Virtualization

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Performance analysis & tuning: An interactive mixer

Joe MarioSenior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Want to talk directly to Red Hat's performance experts? This session is your chance to mingle with Red Hat engineers and engage them in direct dialogue. Come prepared to ask questions in a less formal atmosphere where you get to choose the topics!

Performance experts will be ready to discuss topics spanning the entire Red Hat portfolio, including:


  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.

  • Linux containers.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

  • Red Hat Storage.

  • Third-party commercial applications.



Joe Mario--with many years experience in optimization and performance
of Linux and various UNIX systems--will lead this interactive BOF
mixer. He will be accompanied by numerous Red Hat engineers with 200+
combined years of performance and tuning experience to answer your
performance questions. Please bring your specific optimization and
tuning issues to meet and discuss one-on-one.

Topics: Infrastructure, PaaS, IaaS, Application development & integration, Cost savings, Scalability, Performance, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
202Wednesday, June 246:00 pm - 7:00 pm3

Big data on the open private cloud

Tim GasperGlobal Offerings Manager, Big Data & Analytics, CSC
Big data technologies like Hadoop help tame the deluge of data by funneling machine and sensor data, busting corporate data silos, and connecting the Internet of Things. However, the current model for deploying big data solutions is rigid and often tied to specialized hardware environments or unconventional datacenter procurement and configuration approaches.

The best way to create big data applications and analytics sandboxes is to look to cloud environments that allow compute, storage, and memory to be tailored to the workload.

By partnering with Red Hat, the CSC Big Data Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) bundles the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform with commodity hardware to enable a flexible, private cloud solution that’s easy to use and within budget. This approach balances high scalability and workload tailoring while maintaining private control and security.

In this session, we’ll explore:


  • The architecture and partnerships that power big data on the open, private cloud.

  • CSC’s approach to big data system management and analytic application development. A customer case study of the solution in action.

Topics: Infrastructure, Application development & integration, IaaS, Cost savings, Scalability, Flexibility, Portability, Modularity, Linux platforms, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Red Hat Satellite 6 roadmap & demonstration

David CaplanPrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Satellite was introduced in 2002 as a means to patch and provision systems and to build standard operating environments. While this is still a primary focus of Red Hat Satellite, the requirements for systems management are evolving and growing increasingly complex.

In this session, you will:


  • Hear an update of the Red Hat Satellite 6 product roadmap.

  • Learn about exciting new developments in Linux containers, OpenSCAP, subscription reporting, and Metal-as-a-Service.

  • View a demo of how to use Red Hat Satellite 6.

  • Gain insights into the future of Red Hat’s premiere systems-management offering.

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Scalability, Modularity, Cost savings, Simplicity, Manageability, Virtualization, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Identity management: The authentic & authoritative guide for the modern enterprise

Ellen NewlandsProduct Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Dmitri PalIdM Portfolio Red Hat, Inc., Red Hat, Inc.
Identity management, access control, and authentication are core security elements of the fabric that connects all the layers of the modern enterprise.

In this session, we’ll focus on the identity management technologies you can use to help solve real-world identity and access-control management challenges in modern DevOps-oriented datacenters and in public, private, and hybrid clouds.

You will learn about advancements related to:


  • Enhanced Active Directory integration options.

  • Identity federation.

  • 2-factor authentication.

  • Integrated 1-time password capabilities.

  • Features that allow easier integration of web applications into the enterprise identity space.



Get the knowledge and tools you need to meet your business’ unique identity management challenges.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Infrastructure, Security, Simplicity, Cost savings, Interoperability, Manageability, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

Managing containers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host

George HackerCurriculum Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host is a platform optimized to run application containers with Docker. Instead of developing monolithic applications, businesses are combining simpler applications to meet their business needs.

Linux containers provide a flexible way to deploy these types of applications. A common task of a system administrator or developer is to download an existing Docker image and modify it.

In this lab, you will:


  • Create a container from an existing Docker image.

  • Install and configure web server software in the container.

  • Save the customized container as a new Docker image and tag it.

  • Confirm the new Docker image serves the custom static content when it’s launched.

Topics: PaaS, Scalability, Portability, Manageability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm3
Ballroom B-4Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm3

Integrating the RHCI suite with identity management

Christopher KellerSolutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Nathan KinderManager, Software Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
Matthew SmithSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Satellite together make up the Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure (RHCI) solution. Each component requires an identity management solution to enable authentication, authorization, and user/group management for product features such as self-service provisioning and quota management.

In this session, we’ll demonstrate how the products in the RHCI suite can be integrated with Red Hat Identity Management and Microsoft’s Active Directory (using cross-realm trusts) to provide a centralized identity management solution for administrators, developers, and other users of the environment.

Topics: Other, Infrastructure, Security, Interoperability, Manageability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite 6, & Puppet for automating JBoss EAP 6

Joseph BennettConsultant, Red Hat Inc.
Ian TewksburySenior Consultant, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, we’ll demonstrate a concrete example of integrating Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Satellite 6, and Puppet to automate the configuration and deployment of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.

The solution will include a single, self-service user interface via CloudForms that kicks off the creation of a fresh virtual machine (VM) by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Red Hat Satellite 6 will use Puppet to configure this VM for JBoss EAP 6 deployment.

Join this session to see how CloudForms uses the power of Red Hat Satellite 6 and Puppet to create a customizable, self-service user experience for deploying JBoss EAP clusters.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Application development & integration, PaaS, Scalability, Flexibility, Manageability, Middleware, Cloud computing, Virtualization, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm4

Microservices on OpenShift: Where we've been & where we're going

Michael RiceConsultant, Red Hat, Inc.
Microservices are becoming a popular way to make software lighter and more scalable, and they get software in users’ hands faster than ever. While the frameworks are evolving quickly, developers are overlooking what platform best support microservices.

OpenShift—whether it's the online, enterprise, or open source edition—is an ideal platform to handle microservices. OpenShift gives developers a great deal of control over their platform, which in turn gives them the freedom to evolve as rapidly as the frameworks and their clients demand.

In this talk, we'll review:


  • How OpenShift currently supports a microservice architecture.

  • What cartridges are available off the shelf, such as Node.js or vert.x.

  • Challenges that OpenShift's current versions impose on a microservice architecture.

  • The potential that OpenShift 3 holds for microservices.



We’ll demonstrate a microservice on OpenShift 2 and OpenShift 3, so you can see the differences between the 2 versions.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
204Wednesday, June 248:00 pm - 9:00 pm4

An overview of Linux networking subsystem: Extended BPF

Brenden BlancoArchitect, CTO Office, PLUMgrid
Fernando SanchezPrincipal Systems Engineer, PLUMgrid, Inc
Today’s virtual network infrastructure solutions are flow-based and not dynamically extensible. To deliver on the promise of software-defined networking (SDN), network functions need to be delivered in the same automated and self-service manner as virtual machines. To meet this need, networks require a greater degree of flexibility that will only come with an extensible data plane.

In this session, we’ll review how previous efforts, including Netfilter, Berkley Packet Filter (BPF), Open vSwitch (OVS), and TC, approached the problem of extensibility.

We’ll show you an open source solution available within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel, where extending and merging some of the existing concepts leads to an extensible framework that satisfies the networking needs of datacenter and cloud virtualization.

Topics: Infrastructure, Scalability, Flexibility, Performance, Modularity, Virtualization, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
203Wednesday, June 247:00 pm - 8:00 pm4

10 steps to build a standard operating environment (SOE)

Dirk HerrmannPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Benjamin KruellSenior Domain Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
The presentation provides an overview about a new reference architecture "10 steps to build a Standard Operating Environment" which will be published around Summit. It is based on an example customer scenario including a distributed datacenter topology, example applications and an example IT organization and its roles.

This reference architecture provides a detailed documentation of a typical Standard Operating Environment implementation based on Red Hat Satellite 6.1. It is an end to end story starting with a fresh install of Satellite 6 and step by step configuring all necessary Satellite 6 objects up to an up and running infrastructure with servers and
applications and their ongoing maintenance. Most parts of the setup could be automated using the powerful hammer command line interface which has been used while writing and is documented inside. Nearly all Satellite entities are covered; for the most critical ones like content views, host groups, and life-cycle environments, multiple scenarios are
illustrated. Using this comprehensive documentation customers should be able to configure Red Hat Satellite 6 in a way it fits best their needs.

Topics: PaaS, IaaS, Flexibility, Security, Scalability, Manageability, Reliability, Simplicity, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Driving Innovation in OpenStack for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)

Stephen GordonSr. Technical Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Sandro MazziottaRed Hat, Inc.
Utilizing OpenStack for virtualized network functions has quickly proven to be of top importance for many businesses looking to improve network delivery and performance at lower costs. In this technical session, you'll hear how Red Hat is uniquely positioned in the market, helping to drive new features and functionality for NFV at the OpenStack layer, the hypervisor layer, and at the core Linux layer. You'll also learn about Red Hat's roadmap and future plans to address still-needed functionality and the importance of ensuring interoperability and stability throughout the entire stack.

Topics: Infrastructure, Scalability, Performance, Portability, Interoperability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Deploy an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private cloud

John MatthewsSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jesus RodriguezPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Todd SandersDirector, Software Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
A complete private cloud consists of both virtualization and cloud-management capabilities. These capabilities help deliver services that scale massively and can be created and destroyed at will.

But deploying a private cloud isn’t easy. Even expensive proprietary private clouds can take weeks to install and configure, and require armies of consultants to deploy and maintain.

Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive solution for private IaaS clouds, solves the pain of private cloud deployments. In this session, learn how Red Hat Satellite provides a unified user experience for deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat CloudForms while simultaneously integrating them together to quickly create a working, private cloud.

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Flexibility, Cost savings, Manageability, Simplicity, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am3

Introduction to Ceph

Forrest TaylorCloud Curriculum Team Lead, Red Hat, Inc.
Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. It’s made up of an object store, block store, and a POSIX-compliant distributed file system. The platform is capable of auto-scaling, runs on commodity hardware, is self-healing and self-managing, and is designed to have no single point of failure. Ceph is in the Linux kernel and is integrated with OpenStack.


In this session, you will:


  • Learn about the architecture and structure of Ceph.


  • Deploy a 3-node Ceph cluster with 3 Ceph object storage domains (OSDs).


  • Access the storage using Ceph RADOS block devices (RBD).


  • Expand the cluster to 9 OSDs.


Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Performance, Flexibility, Scalability, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Red Hat Gluster Storage performance

Benjamin EnglandPerformance Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Manoj PillaiPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
This session will cover performance-related developments in Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 and share best practices for testing, sizing, configuration, and tuning.


Join us to learn about:


  • Current features in Red Hat Gluster Storage, including 3-way replication, JBOD support, and thin-provisioning.


  • Features that are in development, including network file system (NFS) support with Ganesha, erasure coding, and cache tiering.


  • New performance enhancements related to the area of remote directory memory access (RDMA), small-file performance, FUSE caching, and solid state disks (SSD) readiness.


Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Scalability, Performance, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am3

Hands-on complex event processing with JBoss BRMS

Jeremy DavisSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Complex event processing (CEP) is the ability to process multiple events to detect meaningful instances and relationships among the events.

The Drools Fusion project brings CEP functionality to Red Hat JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS), which currently powers CEP systems in the banking, logistics, cable, and healthcare industries.

In this hands-on lab, you will go from writing your first rule to building a full-fledged CEP system. Plus, you’ll learn how to author and test rules in JBoss Developer Studio and the Drools Workbench.

Topics: Application development & integration, Flexibility, Other, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-2Wednesday, June 243:30 pm - 5:30 pm3

Managing OpenStack clouds with Red Hat CloudForms

Michael SolbergChief Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, we’ll walk through the process of implementing complex OpenStack workflows in Red Hat CloudForms using fog, the Ruby cloud-services library, and the CloudForms automation engine. We’ll explain and demonstrate code examples from the OpenStack Ops ManageIQ depot extension.

You will learn about:

  • Interacting with the OpenStack Nova APIs.

  • Responding to OpenStack Nova notifications.

  • Implementing state machines for common operations tasks.

  • Reporting on an OpenStack infrastructure.

Topics: IaaS, Cost savings, Manageability, Scalability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
202Wednesday, June 247:00 pm - 8:00 pm4

OpenShift in production: Customer panel

Mike BarrettProduct Manager OpenShift, Red Hat, Inc.
Lans CarstensenPrincipal Engineer, Operations, DreamWorks Animation, LLC
Kevin MurphyDirector Product Management, CA Technologies
Rob WhiteHead Of Application Hosting Engineering, Barclays
Shawn ZamechekResearch Developer, The Wharton School - UPENN
Hear from some of Red Hat's top OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat customers and discover how they’re using OpenShift in their environments.

In this session, you’ll learn about:


  • Production deployments.

  • Use cases for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

  • How customers use OpenShift Enterprise to achieve their business goals.

Topics: PaaS, Cost savings, Scalability, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am1

Enlighten your data

Satish KaleSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
How can you get the most value from the overwhelming amount of data that’s inundating your enterprise? Red Hat JBoss Middleware can make the most critical component of your enterprise-- data--lighter, easily accessible, highly available, and manageable.

In this session, we’ll review Red Hat JBoss Middleware’s data-related technologies, including Red Hat JBoss Data Grid and Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization.

Join us to see how easy it is to consolidate disparate data and transform it into something you can use and extract value from.

Topics: Application development & integration, Flexibility, Scalability, Cost savings, Performance, Interoperability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am3

OpenStack nirvana: Big data & elastic infrastructure together at last

Keith BasilRed Hat, Inc.
With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, we finally have the foundational elements to deploy meaningful, long-life Hadoop clusters on bare metal. In the past, Hadoop use cases were largely limited to deployments on virtual machines.

In this session, we’ll take a look at how OpenStack data processing (Sahara) and OpenStack bare-metal provisioning (Ironic) allows us to have the best of both worlds.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Scalability, Simplicity, Interoperability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform deployment tool roadmap

Keith BasilRed Hat, Inc.
This session will cover the status, intended use, and features of the upcoming deployment tool in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7, Red Hat will include a single tool to manage the life cycle of an OpenStack deployment. Based on TripleO, the new management capabilities will be orchestrated through an application-programming interface (API), command-line interface (CLI) or user interface (UI). These interfaces provide natural integration points for external services and other infrastructure management tools and services.

During this session, we’ll cover the foundational components of the new deployment tool, walk through a deployment flow, and show you a preview of core service awareness.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Scalability, Modularity, Manageability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Using the REST API to manage Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Robert LockeCurriculum Manager, Red Hat
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization suite features an application programming interface (API) providing users with a means to connect to the engine outside the standard web interface. The REST API can be used to write scripts which help system administrators perform periodic maintenance or repetitive tasks on their virtualization environment via
client machines. This is extracted from the RH318: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization course recently updated to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Cost savings, Flexibility, Simplicity, Manageability, Virtualization

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-4Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am3

OpenStack infrastructure management with Red Hat CloudForms

Keith BasilRed Hat, Inc.
John HardyRed Hat CloudForms Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Successful deployment and management of an OpenStack platform requires management functions such as capacity management, compute allocation, platform scaling, resource optimization, and chargeback.

These management functions require infrastructure visibility and automation to be successful. Red Hat CloudForms is a cloud management platform that provides unified cloud management of private and public cloud resources, including those using OpenStack.

This session will show you how to use CloudForms to manage and deploy your OpenStack infrastructure, empowering you to holistically manage your OpenStack platform, from bare metal to business services.

Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Manageability, Security, Flexibility, Reliability, Scalability, Performance, Portability, Simplicity, Modularity, Other, Interoperability, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm1

The Internet of Things: Solutions to drive business transformation

Andrew AitkenGM & Global Open Source Practice Leader, Wipro Technologies
Andrea CeinerGroup Product Marketing Manager M2M/IoT, Eurotech
Vaughn EislerBusiness Development, Symantec Corporation
Karen FarmerIoT Initiative Leader, Red Hat, Inc.
Chris GrayDirector, Embedded And Internet Of Things, Red Hat, Inc.
Daniel LahlSAP
While the Internet of Things (IoT) has garnered a considerable amount of recent attention, companies have actually relied on Red Hat to deliver IoT solutions for years.

The low cost of sensor and processor technology coupled with pervasive Internet connectivity is giving entire industries the ability to extend the datacenter to where business transactions occur and control points reside. Even though the scale and complexity of the IoT is challenging conventional approaches to networking, security, and data processing, real solutions are being deployed today.

In this panel, hear from Red Hat partners who are successfully building the technologies that are the basis of today's IoT solutions.

Topics: Application development & integration, Infrastructure, Scalability, Reliability, Interoperability, Security, Performance, Manageability, Linux platforms, Storage, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm2

Dell and Red Hat’s OpenStack journey to enterprise

Arkady KanevskyDirector Of SW Development, Dell
Randy PerrymanNetwork And Solution Architect, Dell
Steven ReichardSr Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Dell and Red Hat are collaborating to offer an integrated OpenStack solution specifically for enterprise private cloud deployment.

Discover the steps Dell and Red Hat took to create the joint OpenStack solution. We will walk through several use cases, operational scenarios, and even a demo to show you how we went from creating a realistic reference architecture to validating OpenStack in the field.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Reliability, Scalability, Other, Manageability, Flexibility, Simplicity, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Hands-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host

Bob KozdembaPrincipal Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Dusty MabePlatform Consultant, Red Hat
Rob WilmothSenior Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host is a secure, lightweight, small-footprint operating system that is optimized to run Linux containers. This workshop is a practical introduction to operating and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux atomic hosts and working with secure Linux containers.

Through a series of hand-on lab exercises using the Docker and Kubernetes command-line tools, you learn how to provision, deploy, and orchestrate containerized applications to multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux atomic hosts.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Scalability, Security, Modularity, Interoperability, Flexibility, Performance, Simplicity, Manageability, Portability, Other, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-2Thursday, June 2510:30 am - 12:30 pm3

Hands on with Red Hat CloudForms

Brad AscarField Product Manager - CloudForms, Red Hat, Inc.
John HardyRed Hat CloudForms Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
In this hands-on lab, Red Hat solution architects, consultants, and technical product managers will guide you through a hands-on introduction to Red Hat CloudForms.


You will:


  • Install and configure Red Hat CloudForms.


  • Explore typical use cases for installing CloudForms into both new and existing environments.


  • Set up a service catalog and work with provisioning workflow scenarios that vary from simple to advanced.


Topics: IaaS, Flexibility, Manageability, Performance, Interoperability, Security, Scalability, Reliability, Cost savings, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-1Wednesday, June 2410:30 am - 12:30 pm3

ShellShock, HeartBleed--What’s the next headache for compliance?

Brad AscarField Product Manager - CloudForms, Red Hat, Inc.
Richard JerridoPrincipal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
How can Red Hat CloudForms policy enforcement help you maintain control in an increasingly challenging IT landscape?

In this session, you will learn how to quickly detect and remediate issues in your hybrid virtual and cloud-computing environments. We’ll discuss possible compliance challenges and show you where popular remediation patterns may fail.

We’ll also show you how a combination of Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite can deliver critical information and execute a remediation strategy in a short timeframe.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Flexibility, Cost savings, Simplicity, Manageability, Portability, Security, Reliability, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Operating and managing an Atomic container-based infrastructure

Scott CollierSenior Principal Systems Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Lars Kellogg-StedmanSr. Software Developer, Red Hat
Brett ThurberPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Project Atomic integrates the tools and patterns of container-based application and service deployment with trusted operating system platforms to deliver an end-to-end hosting architecture that's modern, reliable, and secure.

Join our session to learn how to operate and manage a container-based infrastructure.

You will learn about:


  • Each phase of an Atomic host’s life cycle, from deploying an Atomic host to daily management activities.

  • Tips and tricks for integrating Atomic with OpenStack.

  • Atomic life-cycle management, including integration with Red Hat Satellite.

  • Privileged containers.

  • Network and storage management.

  • Performance management.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, Modularity, Manageability, Interoperability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Using Red Hat systems management tools in a hybrid cloud

Matthew MarianiSr Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
As organizations begin to use public cloud and managed-service providers for their workloads, management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems across on-premise and off-premise (hybrid cloud) boundaries can become a challenge.

This session will describe best practices for the use of Red Hat systems management tools in a hybrid cloud environment, addressing challenges such as subscription, configuration, and policy management.

We’ll discuss:


  • Using your existing investments in on-premise Red Hat Satellite to manage cloud-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads.


  • Supported architectures.


  • Uploading and updating images on public clouds using the Red Hat Cloud Access process.





The session will also introduce Red Hat CloudForms as a cloud management platform that orchestrates cloud instances across on- and off-premise environments.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Portability, Flexibility, Manageability, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm3

Connect to multiple data sources without writing code

Mark DrillingPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Your data isn’t valuable if you can’t access it in a meaningful, easy-to-use format. Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization gives you tools to easily access and combine data from multiple data sources without writing code or moving any data. JBoss Data Virtualization gives you the level of abstraction and flexibility you need, so that your application code is not affected if your sources move from a physical to cloud environment.

In this demo, you’ll see how JBoss Data Virtualization can be used to connect to your disparate enterprise sources, define a unified virtual view of the data, and consume the data in a mobile application.

In the demonstration, we will:


  • Deploy JBoss Data Virtualization 6.1 to OpenShift.

  • Connect to several data sources from the web user interface.

  • Create data services to join disparate sources into a single view.

  • Show how the data service is exposed in a variety of standard formats, including REST, OData, and JDBC.

  • Demonstrate how the exposed endpoint can be consumed in your mobile application.

Topics: PaaS, Application development & integration, Flexibility, Cost savings, Simplicity, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
201Wednesday, June 247:00 pm - 8:00 pm3

Including the public cloud in your hybrid cloud strategy

Jane CircleManager, Red Hat Certified Cloud And Service Provider Program And Cloud Access Ecosystem, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, you’ll learn best practices for incorporating public cloud services into a hybrid cloud strategy. We'll explore considerations for moving your workloads and how to safely and efficiently operate them in a public cloud.

Specific topics will include:


  • Determining which workloads are suitable for running in a public cloud.

  • Choosing the right consumption and pricing model.

  • Ways to maintain portability of data and applications in a multicloud architecture.

  • How and why to use a virtual private cloud (VPC).



Finally, we'll take a look at the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program and how it can benefit your public cloud workloads.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Flexibility, Cost savings, Security, Interoperability, Portability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
313Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm1

Beyond the cathedral & the bazaar: OpenShift Commons initiative

Ingemar LaneviCEO, TransCirrus Inc.
Judd MaltinSystems Principal Engineer, Dell
Diane MuellerDirector, Community Development, Red Hat, Inc.
Ken OwensCTO Cloud Services, Cisco Systems
Delano SeymourCTO
The success of OpenShift Commons in building out a peer-to-peer network and virtual 'commons' space for sharing best practices about OpenShift is introducing a new model for community collaboration. This model can help facilitate more effective, transparent, and useful relationships among participants in different projects.


Today's reality is one of interdependence and collaboration across open source technologies. When innovative minds working on different open source projects collaborate, the technology wins.


In this session, you’ll learn:


  • How OpenShift was built through collaboration across open source communities, including OpenStack, Heat, Solum, Docker, Google/Kubernetes, Puppet, .Net and others.


  • Why we developed OpenShift Commons, an inclusive ecosystem of contributors, users, service providers working together to develop the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service.


  • Lessons and best practices for collaborating across open source communities.




Topics: PaaS, Cost savings, Manageability, Middleware, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm1

Integration with Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization

Bill KempSr. Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Kenneth PeeplesJBoss Technology Evangelist, Red Hat, Inc.
Cojan van BallegooijenSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Learn how to build and deploy a Red Hat JBoss Fuse application using the JDBC and SQL Apache Camel components to integrate an Apache Camel route in JBoss Fuse with a virtual database (VDB) in JBoss Data Virtualization.

Use the JBoss Fuse and Teiid Designer tools in Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio to build and deploy the VDB and Apache Camel routes that will access and mediate records from the VDB.

Topics: Application development & integration, Flexibility, Interoperability, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm4

Harnessing big data with Hortonworks Data Platform & Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization

Kimberly PalkoProduct Manager, Red Hat
Doug ReidDirector Product Management, Hortonworks
Cojan van BallegooijenSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
As big data programs mature and Apache Hadoop becomes more deeply embedded in critical operations, the ability to support and operate Hadoop efficiently and reliably becomes more important. To help enterprises operate modern data architecture at scale, Red Hat and Hortonworks collaborated to integrate the Hadoop Data Platform with Red Hat’s proven platform technologies.

In this session, Raghuram Thiagarajan, director of product management for Hortonworks, and Kim Palko, product manager for big data and Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization, discuss how Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization can integrate with Hadoop through Hive and provide users easy access to data.

You’ll learn how JBoss Data Virtualization and Apache Hadoop:


  • Can help you integrate your existing and growing data infrastructure.

  • Integrate big data with your existing enterprise data infrastructure.

  • Let non-technical users access big data result sets.



We’ll also provide typical uses cases and examples of Apache Hadoop and Red Hat Data Virtualization.

Topics: Application development & integration, Security, Flexibility, Scalability, Cost savings, Interoperability, Performance, Reliability, Simplicity, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am2

Agile & DevOps: The secret ingredients of faster production deployment

Patricia BogoeviciRed Hat, Inc.
Josh MinthorneDirector, LEVVEL
Agile development methods have helped many projects decrease development time and effort. But, too often, these improvements are lost as completed features sit for long periods of time due to manual integration and deployment difficulties.

This self-inflicted pain doesn’t have to continue. Adding DevOps to the development mix will get your projects to market faster by increasing the efficiency of the project as a whole and removing the bottlenecks typically experienced during testing and deployment phases.

In this session, we’ll explore:


  • The intersection between agile and DevOps and how the combination of the 2 is more powerful than either on its own.

  • Real-world examples from our consulting experience of successful (and even less successful) agile and DevOps transformations.

  • A summary of agile and DevOps practices, techniques, and tools for enterprise solutions built using Red Hat JBoss Middleware.

Topics: Application development & integration, Cost savings, Interoperability, Simplicity, Modularity, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm2

An open SDN approach to enhance & solve networking for datacenter virtualization

Robert McBrideSr. Product Marketing Manager, Software Business Unit, Brocade Communications, Inc
The evolution and increasing fluidity of virtualized infrastructure has created an ever-increasing challenge for network operators.

Existing networks are not designed to participate easily in a cohesive datacenter policy framework. The multitude of highly function-specific applications, makes it hard to integrate and maintain consistent visibility, with respect to applying network policy and configuration that is synchronized with the rest of the infrastructure.

In this session, discover how the OpenDaylight and OpenStack initiatives are bridging the gap between current network orchestration capabilities and tools for implementing advanced network configuration and policies for virtual network functions (VNFs), traditional network hardware devices, and network virtualization layer components.

Topics: Infrastructure, Flexibility, Cost savings, Interoperability, Modularity, Portability, Reliability, Scalability, Manageability, Simplicity, Security, Performance, Virtualization, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am3

Security-enhanced Linux for mere mortals

Thomas CameronChief Architect, Central US, Red Hat, Inc.
In the past, security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) had a reputation as being hard to configure and maintain. Often, Linux admins would turn it off. But SELinux is an important part of a broad security strategy. SELinux is now a foundational part of important technologies like Linux containers, and drives security and scalability in Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) offerings like OpenShift.


Through the hard work of the SELinux Community, SELinux is now easier to manage than it ever was in the past.


In this session, you’ll learn the basics of SELinux, including how to:


  • Configure SELinux.


  • Analyze and correct SELinux errors.


  • Set rules and create basic policies to allow applications to work on SELinux-protected systems.





We’ll use real-world examples to demonstrate how to use SELinux.

Topics: Infrastructure, Reliability, Security, Cloud computing, Linux platforms, Virtualization

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AThursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

Red Hat Satellite 6: Power user tips & tricks

Thomas CameronChief Architect, Central US, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Satellite has managed millions of Red Hat systems for over a decade. Red Hat Satellite 6 enables more and better management at a very large scale, from traditional datacenter environments to cloud-computing environments.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

  • New concepts in Red Hat Satellite 6 and which old terminology has new meaning.

  • Correctly setting up Red Hat Satellite Server for various environments.

  • How to get packages from Red Hat and third-party content providers.

  • Organizations, locations, and life-cycle environments and how to configure them.

  • Content views and how to manage them.

  • Provisioning concepts and components.

  • Hosts and how to manage them.

  • Host collections and how to use them.

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Scalability, Modularity, Simplicity, Manageability, Reliability, Cost savings, Flexibility, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AFriday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am3

Red Hat Storage for mere mortals

Thomas CameronChief Architect, Central US, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Storage, based on the upstream GlusterFS project, was developed as a distributed file system in the oil-and-gas, high-performance compute arena. With Red Hat Storage, you can easily set up flexible distributed storage using commodity x86 hardware.


Simple, inexpensive internal or JBOD storage can be linked across multiple physical servers and presented as a single storage namespace. This storage can be used for log files, web content, virtual machine, home directory, and other storage use cases.


In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to:


  • Install Red Hat Gluster Storage.


  • Configure disks.


  • Link the storage nodes.


  • Define storage bricks.


  • Present storage to clients.





We'll talk about tips and tricks, best practices, backup and recovery, and other storage-related topics.

Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Modularity, Simplicity, Manageability, Reliability, Portability, Performance, Flexibility, Scalability, Linux platforms, Cloud computing, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Migrating to Red Hat JBoss Middleware

Tobias HartwigEMEA Business Unit Manager, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, Red Hat, Inc.
Marc ZottnerSenior Domain Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
You can’t afford to stay on your proprietary middleware platform. Migrating from a costly, proprietary vendor to Red Hat JBoss Middleware can help you innovate quickly, speed up your time to market, and unlock the value of your existing IT assets while lowering your costs and risk.

In this session, we’ll talk about a proven approach to migrating to Red Hat JBoss Middleware.

We’ll show you how to plan your migration, including estimating the effort and time required for a successful migration, assessing the feasibility of the project, and mitigating the risks of your migration.

By examining use cases of other customers who have completed large-scale migrations, you’ll see how to optimize the migration process and make use of the Windup migration tool.

Expect best practices, time-saving tips, and pragmatic recommendations that come from our own migration experience.

Topics: Application development & integration, PaaS, Reliability, Scalability, Cost savings, Flexibility, Interoperability, Simplicity, Portability, Performance, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm2

The joy of testing with Red Hat JBoss Middleware

Justin GoldsmithSenior Consultant, Red Hat, Inc.
Justin HolmesConsulting Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
If you want adopt a DevOps culture and continuous delivery method in your enterprise, your organization will need to fundamentally change the way it views quality and performs testing. The traditional model of a manually intensive effort, owned exclusively by an isolated quality-assurance department is incompatible with the highly automated, highly collaborative model required by DevOps and continuous delivery.


In this session, Justin Holmes will present a sample project that enables testing at the application, platform, and infrastructure layers using Red Hat JBoss Middleware and OpenShift by Red Hat.


You will learn how to:



  • Apply continuous integration practices with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat JBoss BRMS.


  • Use Maven, Fuse, Arquillian, and Cucumber-JVM to build a cost-effective, automated acceptance-testing harness.


  • Use the Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite to collaborate on analysis and functional testing.


Topics: Application development & integration, PaaS, IaaS, Cost savings, Reliability, Flexibility, Simplicity, Other, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
200Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm3

The web-scale Platform-as-a-Service

Veer MuchandiSr Middleware Specialist, Red Hat Inc
As the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market matures, an increasing number of applications are brought into runtime. This session will discuss, in depth, the need for an enterprise-class PaaS, like OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat.

We will present technical details and use cases about 4 core tenets of PaaS:


  • High availability

  • Scalability

  • Orchestration

  • Seamless upgrades



We’ll show you how to deploy a PaaS solution into a corporate datacenter and discuss best practices we’ve gleaned from working with multiple customers.

Topics: Infrastructure, PaaS, Application development & integration, Scalability, Security, Manageability, Performance, Portability, Reliability, Modularity, Cost savings, Flexibility, Cloud computing, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am4

Reduce operational risk with analytics from Red Hat Access Insights

Andrew HecoxSenior Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
In increasingly complex datacenters, it’s impossible for architects and operations teams to understand every nuance of the software they deploy. Driven by data from thousands of enterprise deployments, Red Hat Access Insights is a hosted service that will increase your reliability and simplify your datacenter management.

In this session, you’ll learn how analytics in Red Hat Access Insights provide key operational insights to keep your Red Hat Enterprise Linux stable, secure, and compliant with Red Hat best practices and recommendations.

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Performance, Reliability, Simplicity, Manageability, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Ceph block devices: A deep dive

Joshua DurginSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Ceph is an open source distributed storage system designed for scalability and reliability. Ceph's block device, RADOS block device (RBD), is widely used to store virtual machines, and is the most popular block storage used with OpenStack.

In this session, you'll learn how RBD works, including how it:


  • Uses RADOS classes to make access easier from user space and within the Linux kernel.

  • Implements thin provisioning.

  • Builds on RADOS self-managed snapshots for cloning and differential backups.

  • Increases performance with caching of various kinds.

  • Uses watch/notify RADOS primitives to handle online management operations.

  • Integrates with QEMU, libvirt, and OpenStack.

Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Other, Scalability, Flexibility, Cost savings, Manageability, Reliability, Interoperability, Performance, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm5

Erasure code in Ceph

Loic DacharyArtisan Logiciel Libre, Red Hat, Inc.
Erasure code saves storage space and increases durability. Most commonly used in its simplest form (RAID5), erasure code is generalized for networked storage. It was first introduced in Ceph with the Firefly release in 2014.

In this session, we’ll explain, with a lively experiment, the erasure code logic. We’ll give you an overview of the Ceph implementation and its most common use cases and go on to explain the various erasure code plug-ins (jerasure, ISA-L, LRC).

Finally, we’ll show you how to estimate the trade off between erasure coding and replication—a choice that comes down to space versus speed.

Topics: Infrastructure, Cost savings, Reliability, Scalability, Manageability, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am2

Ceph & OpenStack in the Bloomberg Clustered Private Cloud

Mark ChamberlainBloomberg
Justin ErenkrantzBloomberg LP
Justin Erenkrantz, Bloomberg LLC Office of the CTO and former president of the Apache Foundation, will provide a technical overview of the Ceph storage architecture implemented in the Bloomberg private cloud environment (BCPC).


The OpenStack-based BCPC cloud incorporates over a petabyte of Ceph storage and 250+ compute nodes, allowing for continued growth over time.


Topics will include:



  • Multiplatform Ceph deployment (Solaris and AIX client nodes).


  • Experiences in shifting from community to enterprise Ceph.


  • OpenStack scaling for Ceph.


  • Multisite implementation for availability.


  • Ceph and OpenStack adoption and use cases within Bloomberg.


Topics: IaaS, Interoperability, Performance, Scalability, Flexibility, Manageability, Cloud computing, Storage

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm3

Architecting the global enterprise: Design, direction, & delivery across continents

Jeremy DavisSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Arnold HahamyanChief Enterprise Architect, Nissan North America
Implementing solutions with team members in North America, Europe, and Asia isn't as easy as it sounds. With manufacturing facilities and retail outlets in Asia, Australia, Africa, Central America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and South America and development teams in North America, Asia, Europe, India and South America, Nissan is truly the global enterprise.

In this session, we’ll discuss the challenges of developing and implementing IT strategy across multiple continents. We’ll review the methods and approaches we use to coordinate amongst architects, development teams, and infrastructure organizations.

Topics: Other, Scalability, Cost savings, Flexibility, Interoperability, Other

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm1

Puppet Enterprise & Red Hat Satellite 6

Carl CaumPuppet Labs
Richard JerridoPrincipal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Christopher WellsRed Hat, Inc.
Tim ZoncaDir Product Marketing, Puppet Labs
Puppet has become the standard configuration management solution for computing infrastructure. Companies that rely on Puppet in heterogenous environments must feel confident in the support that comes with their investment.

There are 2 ways to get support for Puppet. Either you can subscribe to Puppet Enterprise via Puppet Labs, or you can acquire support through a subscription to Red Hat Satellite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.

This session will review each support model and explore:
Caveats of each approach.
Examples of joint deployments that showcase how Red Hat Satellite 6 and Puppet Enterprise can coexist in a company to streamline configuration management.
The latest releases of Red Hat Satellite and Puppet Enterprise.
Complementary deployment practices for content life cycle, provisioning, and configuration management.

Topics: IaaS, Infrastructure, Interoperability, Cost savings, Flexibility, Scalability, Modularity, Manageability, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm4

Global trading platform architecture for a Wall Street investment bank

Joshua WestSenior Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Financial services companies are faced with increasing demands on their IT infrastructure. Traditional IT can’t keep up with the exploding trade volumes, increased number of issuers, and regulatory requirements for transparency and agility.

To meet these demands, IT architects must design flexible trading platforms that are built around speed, agility, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Open source technology is the key to building these platforms.

In this session, leaders from UBS will explain how their adoption of open source software allows for modular and flexible architectures that can be modified and adopted in a phased manner.

We’ll discuss key benefits, including:


  • End-to-end open source architecture that brings together various technology paradigms to solve complex business and technology requirements, including integration, business workflows and rules, and application containers.

  • Use of enterprise integration patterns in Apache Camel to achieve the full potential of ESB in meeting complex routing requirements.

  • Dynamic definition of routing paths using a variety of editing mechanisms.

  • A high volume of orders achieved with low latency.

  • Usage of complex event processing (CEP) techniques to process incoming messages.

Topics: Application development & integration, Portability, Cost savings, Interoperability, Modularity, Linux platforms, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am3

Performance tuning Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Andrig MillerGlobal Platform Director, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, you will learn the specifics of performance tuning Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP).

We will discuss:


  • How to get the most throughput from your platform.

  • A set of new performance-oriented features, how to enable them, and what circumstances require them.

  • Linux-specific tuning.

  • Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning that’s specific to JBoss EAP.

Topics: Application development & integration, Performance, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AFriday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm

Red Hat's container strategy

Lars HerrmannGeneral Manager RHEL, RHEV And Containers
Containers are transforming IT rapidly and drawing tremendous interest because of their multifaceted benefits. In this session, Lars Herrmann, general manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and containers, will offer insights on Red Hat's vision for the entire spectrum of container solutions and how they will help transform application delivery in the enterprise.

Learn how enterprise IT can accelerate business agility, developer productivity, and deployment flexibility across hybrid cloud environments by designing their workflows and policies for a world of containerized applications.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AWednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm

Security compliance made easy(er): entering the SCAP renaissance

Jeffrey BlankTechnical Director, National Security Agency
Joshua KoontzLockheed Martin
Sarah StormsProject Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Joe SwartzChief Scientist, Lockheed Martin
Shawn WellsProject Developer, SCAP Security Guide, Red Hat, Inc.
This session builds on previous Summit sessions related to the Secure Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), a protocol that automated security compliance and established normalized pass/fail reports for security controls.

While SCAP was recently an emerging technology, it has evolved to become an important part of security compliance. In fact, the SCAP Security Guide Project (SGG) now ships natively in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, commercial and government baselines are established, integration with Red Hat Satellite 6.1 is complete, and an SCAP Workbench is now available to customize content.

In this session, we’ll give you a better understanding of SCAP use cases and capabilities. In a series of live demos given by SSG's upstream developers and maintainers, you will:


  • See how to use SCAP Workbench to tailor predefined security baselines for your unique needs.

  • View a demo of the SCAP workflow, and see how to discover, identify, and locate Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 security misconfigurations.

  • Watch Lockheed Martin demonstrate how they deploy super-computing clusters preconfigured to their customized security baseline.



This session will be followed by a hands-on workshop (Applied SCAP: Performing your first scan) where you will walk through the above demos in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based training environment.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
304Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am

Performance analysis & tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Jeremy EderPrincipal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
D. John ShakshoberRed Hat, Inc.
Larry WoodmanRed Hat, Inc.
In this 2-hour session, we’ll explore how to configure and tune Red Hat Enterprise Linux for optimal performance while running a variety of common applications.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Analyze the performance of heavily loaded systems.

  • Tune the systems to maximize performance on bare-metal x86 systems.

  • Tune both Linux containers and clouds virtualized with Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM).



In the first hour, we’ll look at the Linux virtual memory system and how to tune for non-uniform memory (NUMA). We’ll share tools like "numastat," "tuned," and techniques that are used to identify and resolve performance issues in a number of combined systems and applications, such as database servers, Internet servers, financial applications, bare metal, and Linux containers.

We’ll go on to discuss performance as it relates to disk and network IO. We’ll show you examples that illustrate the latest performance analysis tools and techniques like using "perf", "tuna", and "performance copilot" to identify any bottlenecks that are impacting system and application performance.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AWednesday, June 241:20 pm - 3:20 pm

Red Hat's platform offerings: Meet the experts

Ron PachecoRed Hat, Inc.
Meet the technology product managers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.

In this session, you’ll hear about the technology strategy, roadmap, and future product directions. And you’ll have a chance to engage and have your questions and feedback addressed.

Topics: Infrastructure, Linux platforms, Cloud computing, Virtualization

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
204Wednesday, June 247:00 pm - 8:00 pm3

iPaaS & beyond: Red Hat's integration roadmap

Jack BrittonRed Hat, Inc.
Sameer ParulkarProduct Marketing Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Integration is always challenging. To succeed, products must be robust enough to work, but also lightweight and easy to use. This session gives a sneak peek at Red Hat’s integration roadmap.


In this session, we’ll discuss:


  • Roadmaps for Red Hat integration offerings, including Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works, and Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization.


  • iPaaS offerings including JBoss Fuse, JBoss A-MQ, and JBoss Data Virtualization for OpenShift.


  • Upcoming functionality in integration products.

  • Real-world, complex integration use cases.

  • The role of Apache Camel in Red Hat’s integration strategy.

  • Enterprise integration patterns (EIP).

Topics: Application development & integration, Middleware

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
312Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am

IoT in the real world

James KirklandRed Hat, Inc.
Stephen OGradyRedMonk
Senthuran SivananthanSolution Architect, Architech
Henry SzetoManaging Director, Epic Data, a division of Sylogist Ltd.
In the Internet of Things (IoT), objects, animals, or people are part of a network, sending and receiving data to and from other things. The way that enterprises approach the IoT is as varied as the enterprises themselves. While IoT creates new business opportunities, it also presents a new set of challenges as enterprises explore how to best use it.

In this session, we’ll discuss the common traits, benefits, opportunities, and potential pitfalls of IoT. We’ll be joined by real enterprises that are planning or executing an IoT strategy of their own.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Friday, June 2611:00 am - 12:00 pm

The emerging IT: Frictionless, hybrid, programmable

Alessandro PerilliGM, Cloud Management Strategy, Red Hat, Inc.
IT organizations and technology providers are often too busy addressing daily challenges to realize how much the world is changing around them. Over the last decade, business users’ expectations in terms of system usability, agility, and flexibility have radically changed. And they will continue to evolve.


With more than 10 years as an industry analyst, Alessandro Perilli, general manager of Red Hat's Cloud Management Strategy, will explain:


  • How Red Hat sees the world changing.


  • Why our IT is not ready to satisfy the demand of the new generation.


  • What we can do together to evolve and remain relevant within our industries.


Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Using Apache Spark for analytics in the cloud

William BentonRed Hat, Inc
Commodity infrastructure is constantly changing and improving. The engineering tradeoffs that made sense for the data processing architecture of a decade ago--when networks were slower and main memories smaller--don't always make sense today.

In this session, you'll see how Red Hat's Data Science team deploys and uses Apache Spark to develop analytic applications for internal customers. You'll learn about an elastic application architecture that is effective on bare metal, in a private cloud, or in a public cloud, and you'll see examples of Apache Spark and Red Hat Storage applied to solve real business problems at scale.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Practical Atomic

Scott CollierSenior Principal Systems Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Subhendu GhoshRed Hat, Inc.
Michael McGrathSenior Principal Architect, Atomic, Red Hat, Inc.
Jack RiedenRed Hat, Inc.
Daniel RiekSr. Director Systems Design & Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
James ShubinConfig Mgmt. Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Daniel WalshMr SELinux, Red Hat, Inc.
Colin WaltersSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Aaron WeitekampSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, a small footprint, optimized container host based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, along with the concept of immutable infrastructure, introduces a new operational paradigm into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product family.

In this birds-of-a-feather panel, you’ll have an opportunity to discuss these changes with experts from the Atomic and containerization teams within Red Hat. You’ll learn about practical implications of these new paradigms and where the technology is going.

You’ll also have an opportunity to voice questions and comments about the future of Atomic and containers.

Topics: PaaS, IaaS, Application development & integration, Infrastructure, Performance, Cost savings, Scalability, Storage, Virtualization, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
201Wednesday, June 248:00 pm - 9:00 pm5

Introducing the Red Hat Developer Program

Harry MowerRed Hat, Inc.
Ray PloskiRed Hat, Inc.
Andrew RubingerDeveloper Advocate And Program Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Coming soon.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm

OpenShift for Developers

Steven PoustyPaaS Dust Spreader, Red Hat, Inc.
Grant ShipleySr. Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat, Inc.
This workshop prepares web and application developers to build applications with OpenShift.

We'll start with a short introduction to Platform-as-a-Service, Docker, and Kubernetes, which are some of the foundational pieces of OpenShift.

Using hands-on exercises, we’ll show you how OpenShift enables productivity in building applications and how to make changes to code and changes to your Docker container.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-1Friday, June 269:00 am - 11:00 am

Containerizing applications, existing and new

Scott CollierSenior Principal Systems Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Dusty MabePlatform Consultant, Red Hat
Aaron WeitekampSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Langdon WhitePlatform Architect, Developer Experience, Red Hat, Inc.
In this hands-on lab, learn how to use Red Hat container technologies, to create containerized applications from scratch and from existing applications. See how to deploy the new containers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Openshift by Red Hat.

In this lab, you will:

  • Quickly develop a basic containerized application.

  • Migrate a simple popular application to a containerized version.

  • Deploy your new applications to a container host.



You’ll get a feel for the different container host platforms and learn how to choose the best one for your container needs. Plus, you’ll understand what to consider when thinking about implementing a containerized, microservices architecture.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-2Friday, June 269:00 am - 11:00 am

Building OpenShift & OpenStack platforms with Red Hat

Pilar BravoSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
David ManchadoIT Architect, Produban - Santander Group
Alfredo Moralejo AlonsoSenior Domain Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Cristian RoldanIT Architect, Produban - Santander Group
Produban is a global technology company that specializes in the continuous design and operation of IT infrastructures. Speakers from Red Hat and Produban will discuss the business reasons for why Produban decided to build a globally distributed platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud using Red Hat technologies.

Produban worked with Red Hat Consulting to design and implement IaaS and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions that provided the level of scalability, availability, and manageability their internal customers demanded. They built their solutions using OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Ceph Storage.

In this session, we’ll discuss:


  • Why Produban delivered global private cloud services.

  • The basic architecture of Produban’s IaaS and PaaS solutions.

  • OpenShift and OpenStack deployment architectures.

  • Using Red Hat Ceph Storage as SDS for OpenStack services.

  • Operational aspects of the deployment.

  • Lessons we learned.

Topics: IaaS, PaaS, Flexibility, Scalability, Interoperability, Storage, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm3

OpenStack engineering roadmap

Hugh BrockRed Hat, Inc.
Tim BurkeVP Cloud And Linux Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.
Perry MyersRed Hat
Join the lead engineering managers of Red Hat’s OpenStack development team for an overview of the recent technology advancement. We will start with highlights of successful deployment examples, and description
of some of the major driving verticals and use cases that are shaping the focus in development. Next will be a description of how Red Hat is productizing openstack and how it fits with other components addressing deployment challenges.

After this introduction, we will overview the main feature enhancements in the most recent release Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, and highlights of what is well along in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 release, plus glimpses into longer-range focused enhancement areas. One of the key themes of the presentation is to show the useability enhancements targeting easier deployment. This session is a great opportunity to engage directly with the lead development managers for an inside view on OpenStack direction.

Topics: IaaS, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AThursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm

Strategy & vision for Red Hat management solutions

Joe FitzgeraldRed Hat, Inc.
For over 20 years, Red Hat has provided infrastructure and middleware software to run critical workloads for organizations across industries. As IT environments increase in complexity, management solutions are more important than ever.

In this session, hear about Red Hat’s strategy and vision for its management solutions and learn how Red Hat is expanding the scope of its management offerings to cover emerging technologies like public clouds, containers, the Internet of Things, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am1

Running ISV applications in containers you can trust

Hugo RiveroRed Hat, Inc.
Mike WernerRed Hat
Independent software vendors (ISV) can become involved in the container craze that’s taking over IT. Join our session to learn about building, certifying, and distributing containers to customers in a trusted architecture.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn how container certification and distribution can solve your environment’s problems

  • See how to integrate containers with your existing deployment and management processes.

  • Hear about Red Hat’s container certification program and their partner program.

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm

Managing your cloud environment | Customer insights

Jason CornellManager Cloud And Infrastructure Automation, Cox Automotive
Enrique IglesiasProduban / Santander
Sean KernerSenior Editor, EWEEK And InternetNews.com
Peter MaddisonDirector Platform Services, LoyaltyOne
Eric SarakaitisManager, Product Development, CBTS
Having a cloud strategy is essential for enterprises seeking to expand their business. In this panel discussion, Red Hat customers will share their cloud management strategies and why they selected Red Hat technologies to support their cloud deployments. You'll hear about obstacles faced during the process and benefits gained after implementation.

Topics: , Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm

OpenStack's success in the financial services industry

Jeff JamesonOpenStack Product Marketing, Red Hat, Inc.
David ManchadoIT Architect, Produban - Santander Group
José María San José JuarezGlobal Head Of Innovation In Technology, BBVA
While OpenStack is quickly proving to be a success across a broad range of industry verticals, this session will focus on successful use cases within the financial services and banking industry. This panel session will host a variety of financial services businesses that have successfully deployed Red Hat cloud technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. You'll hear about their real-world experiences of how and why they decided to move to OpenStack, achieving a successful deployment, and how they are maintaining their cloud infrastructure for future growth. Please join us to hear these real-world OpenStack success stories.

Topics: IaaS, Scalability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am3

Red Hat Training and Certification update

Ken GoetzVice President, Red Hat Global Learning Services, Red Hat, Inc.
Pete HnathDirector Of Curriculum, Red Hat
Randolph RussellDirector, Red Hat Certification, Red Hat, Inc.
In this session, discover the new direction that Red Hat Training and Certification is taking to prepare organizations and individuals to meet IT challenges, now and in the future.

Leaders from Red Hat Training and Certification will talk about Red Hat Subscription Learning, a future offering that supports continual learning for tech professionals, and discuss our plans for DevOps and OpenStack training.

Topics: Other

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom AThursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am

Security compliance made easy with OpenSCAP

Robin Price IISolutions Architect, Red Hat, Inc
Shawn WellsProject Developer, SCAP Security Guide, Red Hat, Inc.
OpenSCAP is an auditing tool that creates a standard security checklist for enterprise systems. OpenSCAP provides practical security hardening advice for Red Hat products and links to compliance requirements, making deployment activities like certification and accreditation easier.

In this hands-on workshop, SCAP developers will walk you through SCAP usage on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Through the labs, you will:


  • Use OpenSCAP command-line interface (CLI) to perform a host-based security baseline scan.

  • Log in to Red Hat Satellite v6.1 and perform a centralized scan of multiple systems.

  • Use SCAP Workbench to tailor the native SCAP Security Guide profiles and generate a custom baseline.

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-3Thursday, June 253:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Customer Perspective: ThyssenKrupp and Red Hat Mobile

John RinaldiSystem Architect Service Management And Mobility, ThyssenKrupp Elevator
ThyssenKrupp Elevator (TKE) is the largest producer of elevators in the Americas, requiring a service workforce of thousands. As an early adopter of mobile technologies in the Field Services realm, TKE have seen the impact a mobilized workforce can have in customer satisfaction, improved service delivery and productivity improvements.

In this presentation John Rinaldi, TKE’s Service Management and Mobility Architect will discuss:

- The Journey for TKE's mobile adoption
- The Challenges in mobilizing a large field workforce
- The Vision for the future of mobility at TKE
- The Approach: The key steps in making mobility work

Additionally, John will discuss the factors that drove TKE to adopt a Mobile Application Platform and how FeedHenry's platform was unique in addressing their technical challenges.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm

Red Hat as a Catalyst for Government

Stephen BraswellUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Blake CaldwellHPC Systems Administrator, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jason CoreyRed Hat, Inc.
Gunnar HelleksonRed Hat, Inc.
Orran KriegerFounding Director Cloud Computing Initiative, Boston University
Join Red Hat experts, government evangelists, and customers for this session highlighting collaborative projects between Red Hat & Government. You’ll hear how government organizations are partnering with Red Hat and using open source software to create cutting-edge, innovative IT solutions to solve business challenges and meet their missions. Guest speakers will share their stories and perspectives on projects with Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), University of North Carolina (UNC), and Agile Core Services (ACS).

Following the presentations, you’ll hear a lively panel discussion and have an opportunity to participate and ask questions.

Topics: PaaS, IaaS, Security, Performance, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
301Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 3:20 pm

Trends in the Financial Services Industry

Thomas AimoneBloomberg
Johnray FullerRed Hat Inc.
Bob MaderSVP, Linux Engineering, Citi
José María San José JuarezGlobal Head Of Innovation In Technology, BBVA
Matthew SmithSenior Solution Architect, Red Hat, Inc.
Join a panel of financial services experts and key Red Hat subject matter experts as they discuss recent trends impacting the financial services community. Topics will range from usage of application integration methodologies around credit risk management, the impact of a DevOps culture on new initiatives, feedback on the state of OpenStack in FSI, and much more. This will be a two-hour session in a panel format featuring an interactive Q&A session.

Topics: IaaS, Cost savings, Security, Performance, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
303Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 3:20 pm

Trends in the Telecommunications Industry

Thomas ConklinEricsson
Giovanni De MartinoSenior Manager, Accenture
Addam KrucekPlatform Solutions Architect, Motorola Solutions, Inc.
The global telecommunications sector is on the cusp of transformational change. Change made possible through the ever-expanding capabilities of standards based, open source software that will provide never before seen opportunities for innovative new services and revenue streams delivered via flexible and agile infrastructure. Service providers will have the opportunity to move to the edge of innovation.

Gartner’s concept of Bimodal IT provides an insightful framework of the challenges faced by service providers highlighting the notion of having two modes of IT, each designed to develop and deliver information and technology-intensive services in its own way. Mode 1 is traditional, emphasizing scalability, efficiency, safety and accuracy. Mode 2 has the same design principles with a non-traditional environment based on non-sequential implementation (or continuous innovation and continuous delivery), emphasizing agility and speed.

In this panel conversation, hosted by Jack Hubley, Red Hat Director of Business Development for the Telecommunications sector, attendees will hear from Red Hat partners and IT leaders who are helping organizations around the globe capitalize on the latest trends and capabilities necessary to migrate along the Bimodal IT model.

Topics: Infrastructure, Application development & integration, Interoperability, Performance, Portability, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Flexibility, Simplicity, Cost savings, Manageability, Linux platforms, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
305Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 3:20 pm

Intel & Red Hat: Enhancing OpenStack for enterprise deployment

Sean CohenPrincipal Product Manager, Red Hat, Inc.
Krishnan RaghuramDatacenter Software Marketing Manager, Intel Corporation
The OpenStack cloud environment has become one of the most exciting open technologies over the last few years, with many large organizations already deploying it in production, and analysts like Forrester projecting that we will begin seeing wide enterprise deployments in 2015. Attend this session to hear how Intel and Red Hat are collaborating to improve OpenStack’s readiness for the Enterprise in the areas of intelligent scheduling, trust and compliance, high availability, and superior performance, all capabilities needed for production workloads. You will also learn how Intel and Red Hat are helping enterprises take their first steps into OpenStack with training, trials, and proof-of-concept programs.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Wednesday, June 244:50 pm - 5:50 pm

Liferay modernizes the enterprise portal platform

James FalknerCommunity Manager, Liferay, Inc.
Owing to the rise of mobile, the deluge of customer data, the proliferation of dev frameworks and APIs, and the modern expectations of today's developers, portal platforms must go way beyond traditional integration and personalization in order to succeed. Customers and citizens expect a seamless experience throughout their relationship with you no matter how they interact: from social media, to your website or your mobile app, or when they walk into your store. Your portal platform must be able to unify those increasingly complex interactions across your organization and provide your developers a modern and flexible way to build apps on top.

In this session, learn how Liferay can help you address your customer engagement initiatives across your organization. We'll cover:

  • Liferay 7 architecture, apps, and modules

  • Liferay as a digital experience platform

  • Mobile developer tooling, web frameworks, best practices

  • Deploying and supporting Liferay across the enterprise

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Gridiron + Openshift: Mastering people, process, culture, and technology with Mission Focus

Chris HampleSenior Lead Technologist
Tom McGonagleSenior Lead Technologist
Coming soon.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
208Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm

SAP and Red Hat: Big data, big opportunity

Daniel LahlSAP
With the adoption of SAP and enterprise Linux deployments growing across the world, the case for moving SAP applications to Red Hat has become increasingly compelling. Combined with recent expanded collaboration in the areas of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA, Red Hat JBoss Middleware and OpenShift by Red Hat, the combination of SAP applications and the Red Hat portfolio offers customers a flexible, scalable and solid foundation based on open standards for their landscapes. Come learn how the combination of SAP and Red Hat solutions can help transform your business.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
302Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm

Migrating legacy datacenter virtual environments to a Red Hat open source cloud platform

Denise GlasscockAccenture Global OpenStack Lead, Accenture
Michael MalkeIntelligent Infrastructure Architecture Lead, Accenture
In this session, we will discuss the benefits of migrating VMware environments to a modernized Red Hat cloud solution. This presentation will offer a technical point of view on how our clients experience the journey through implementing different service layers of the cloud. From the traditional stand up hardware to virtualization, and onward to IaaS and PaaS, this presentation offers a look at how open source tooling can help a large organization transition to a fully implemented cloud using Cloud Forms as the orchestrator and catalog engine. OpenStack supports the infrastructure services and OpenShift provides the platform capabilities to support the applications in the cloud. This entire solution is managed through a single pane of glass and provides large organizations with the ability to reduce time to deploy from 55 days to just 13 minutes.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
309Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Development architecture for application-centric microservices deployment in the Intercloud

Ken OwensCTO Cloud Services, Cisco Systems
When Cisco started envisioning the future of its application development platforms, the ability to create applications that are cloud-native with elastic services, network-aware application policies, and micro-services was strategic to the company. When the decision to build and operate a Cisco cloud service delivery platform for collaboration, video, and Internet of Things (IoT) application development was made, OpenStack and micro-services became central to our application architectures and strategic to our vision as a company.

This presentation will look at the journey Cisco developers took to transform to an application-centric OpenStack platform for application development in a secure, network-centric, and completely open source manner. The importance of the platform being Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and using OpenShift by Red Hat and the contribution to the community will be described. The micro-services architecture and service-oriented DevOps lessons learned for enabling massive scalable and continuous delivery of software will be presented and demoed.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am

Are you future-ready? Take advantage of open cloud

Brent DoncasterProduct Marketing, Dell
The forces of cloud computing, data-driven decision making, the Internet of Things and software-defined are making the creation and activation of new application and cloud architectures a critical priority for all organizations.

This creates opportunity—opportunity to redraw technology boundaries with cloud infrastructure and applications that redraw customer relationships like never before. Opportunity to become future-ready.

Join us in this Dell session as we explore how open cloud enabled business models and processes can make your organization future-ready.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm

Deploy SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS

Sabareesan RadhakrishnanPartner Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services and Red Hat have teamed to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2, providing a complete, enterprise-class computing environment with the simplicity and scalability of AWS. Amazon Web Services have developed AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment to help customers rapidly deploy fully functional enterprise software on AWS cloud.

Join this session to learn about :

  • Amazon Web Services and its offerings.

  • Running your SAP workload with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS Cloud platform.

  • Deploying SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS using AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment in less than an hour.

  • Watch the demonstration of deploying SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS using AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment.

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Friday, June 269:45 am - 10:45 am2

Open by design: How ISVs are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 on Power Systems

IBM Power Systems with POWER8 processor provide an open innovation server platform to deliver unique value over commodity servers at a competitive price. Come to this session to learn how IBM is working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to use Power System's capabilities to create solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 delivering unmatched client value. In addition to discussing how IBM is reshaping Power as an open server platform, we will share some of the solutions we have created with ISVs using Power Systems capabilities such as acceleration technologies, performance characteristics and enterprise features. This session is particularly useful to clients who want to understand how Power Systems can provide value to their applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ISVs who want to learn how Power Systems can provide competitive advantage to their applications.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Wednesday, June 243:40 pm - 4:40 pm

Red Hat Ceph Storage and network solutions for software-defined infrastructure (SDI)

Tony DempseyISV Ecosystem Strategy Manager, Intel
John FitzpatrickOpenet, Openet
Frank OberSolutions Architect, Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group, Intel Corporation
As your organization looks to capitalize on next-generation use cases such as cloud, analytics, and big data, you need a networking and storage solution that is cost effective and scales as data volumes grow. Software-defined infrastructure (SDI) is rapidly changing the way data centers are evolving, offering IT managers and service providers a flexible, agile and efficient platform to rapidly deliver services. Together, Intel and Red Hat provide the right combination of compute, network and storage to deliver high-performance cost-effective SDI solutions.

Intel solution architects will review SDI architecture and present examples of network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined storage (SDS). You will learn how NFV is transforming the way network operators are able to deploy real-time services and updates. Software company and Intel partner Openet, will present how NFV concepts can lead to improved customer experience brought by increased system agility, faster time to market, and greater service availability. Openet will show how they have used the latest Intel-powered servers utilizing OpenStack Juno and Intel will also show how Red Hat Ceph Storage software platform is delivering solutions to enterprise customers.

Come learn what’s new with Ceph and how it meets the needs of a growing set of enterprise workloads.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Wednesday, June 2410:40 am - 11:40 am

HP takes Camel for a ride with NASCAR

Stacey HansenProgram Manager For NASCAR Account At HP, HP
Rob MuellerIntegration Architect, HP
Learn how HP partnered with NASCAR to develop the NASCAR Fan and Media Engagement Center (FMEC) to monitor their fan conversations in near real-time; easily tracking volumes, themes, common language used, top influencers, and sentiment while quickly identifying trending topics and responding during crisis management situations with timely communications plans. We will talk about the HP Haven solution where Red Hat’s JBoss Fuse provided data ingest, transformation and message routing along with Camel, ActiveMQ, Groovy and Java to take a continuous stream of new and traditional communications data to dizzying analytical heights. We will also detail four key areas of functionality around data ingest, canonical transformation, workflow processing and audit services that come together as the backbone of the NASCAR FMEC enabling the ability to analyze and determine the right voice, the right tone, and the right message to reach critical new audiences and increase the fan experience.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Wednesday, June 241:20 pm - 2:20 pm

Getting the most out of your NVMe SSD

Charles RoseEngineer, Dell
PCIe SSD devices that comply to the NVMe spec have been available for a couple of years, and caching seems to be a natural choice for this class of hardware.

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat announced support for dm-cache managed by lvm as a tech preview, possibly with more goodies in future updates. While proprietary caching/SSD solutions seem promising, open source alternatives are maturing.

Can we do more than just caching with these devices? This talk will highlight some use cases in which NVMe hardware and Red Hat and open source software request deeper consideration.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am

The infrastructure foundation for a successful big data deployment

Rick SpeyerMarketing Manager, Cisco Systems
Cisco and Red Hat form the natural foundational building blocks for their big data deployment. Come to this session and learn how the combination of Cisco and Red Hat creates the right foundational infrastructure for a big data deployment, and why it’s critical to choose the right big data solution from the outset to maximize impact and ROI.

Topics: IaaS, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Thursday, June 253:40 pm - 4:40 pm

SAP and Red Hat: Driving systems of innovation

As information needs to be available at the point of thought, how do business innovate their systems of record to become systems of innovation. SAP and Red Hat have been collaborating across our Database and Technology portfolio, led by SAP HANA to build the next generation of real-time systems.

In this session, you will discover the joint path that SAP and Red Hat have built helping business realize the benefit of real-time systems of innovation leveraging their existing investments .
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Running an application-centric cloud with Cisco ACI and Red Hat

Mike CohenProduct Management Director
You built your cloud to offer fungible compute, storage, and networking resources — to free your applications of traditional infrastructure constraints. Why, then, does your OpenStack cloud still ask you to specify low level constructs like logical VLANs and routers? If you had a true cloud, why not describe application requirements and let the cloud figure out how to enforce them?

This talk will describe how to build and operate a policy-driven, application-centric OpenStack cloud with Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. In this talk, we'll discuss the major innovations offered by Cisco ACI and how it can enable a simple, secure, fast and highly automated network infrastructure. We’ll also discuss how Cisco and Red Hat are collaborating to offer Group-Based Policy, an intent-driven policy framework for OpenStack, to help Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform users take advantage of these innovations.

Topics: IaaS

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am

Enabling the data-driven enterprise: The right platform for your open source workloads

Matthew CurleyTechnologist, HP
With each next gen platform HP continues to focus on innovation, and optimizing solutions for our customers big data needs. HP engineering has taken a particular interest in the Ceph community and making code contributions. During this session, you can expect to learn about our brand new Apollo 4000 family of servers and which one will best fit your data needs. We will also discuss HP’s contributions to Ceph, and how HP + Red Hat help optimize customers open source deployments.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Thursday, June 254:50 pm - 5:50 pm

Discover the effects of Linux on System z via IBM's Open Source Ecosystem Content & Partnerships

Dale HoffmanManager, Z Systems Technical Strategy, IBM Systems, IBM
A new ecosystem has emerged and matured with many open source/freemium models. This new Open Source Ecosystem initiative is now being addressed aggressively to enable Linux on z Systems for equivalency with other platforms, while still delivering on an Enterprise Linux value proposition. This strong ecosystem has been enabled with an execution strategy that moves beyond traditional porting and testing of individual products to a strategy that enables and encourages the open source community to consider z Systems an equal player. This content focusing on three major categories that create a foundation of developer languages/compilers, databases, and cloud infrastructure components that are ported and supported on z Systems. These foundational technologies open up the aperture for application developers and other ISVz to use the unique properties of Enterprise Linux on z Systems.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
311Thursday, June 252:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Standard, scalable, mission-critical x86 Linux

Leo DemersProduct Marketing Manager, HP
Come to this session to hear how you can modernize your data center with standard, mission-critical x86 servers that grow with your business and are built on the foundation of reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)—powered by HP Integrity Superdome X with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Learn how HP and Red Hat collaborated on a complete system approach to meet the requirements of the most demanding critical workloads.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
209Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm

Datacenter networking automation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Madhu KashyapSr. Product Manager, Brocade
Datacenter networking is going through rapid change and innovation. The same operational model that defines datacenter compute virtualization now applies to data center networking. Agility and scale are key driving forces behind this change.

Attend this session to see how we automate both the underlying provider network as well as tenant network to achieve operational efficiencies using Red Hat's OpenStack and Brocade's networking technologies.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
310Thursday, June 2510:40 am - 11:40 am

Partner perspectives 21

Coming soon.

A DevOps state of mind

Chris Van TuinChief Technologist, West, Red Hat
Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly. The DevOps approach is a way to increase business agility through collaboration, communication, and integration across different teams in the IT organization.

In this presentation, you’ll learn about:

  • The acceleration of application delivery for the business with DevOps

  • The transformation of IT to a DevOps, microservices, and container-based cloud architecture
    including the use of a PaaS along with Docker, Google’s Kubernetes, and Jenkins.

  • How DevOps practices can operate in a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)-enabled environment.

  • PaaS and DevOps, used together, can reduce software delivery cycle times, drive automation, and increase efficiency.

  • How other organizations are using DevOps and how to replicate their success.



Join Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist, West at Red Hat, as he walks through how DevOps can accelerate application delivery for the business.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
207Thursday, June 251:20 pm - 2:20 pm2

Performing live backups on Red Hat Gluster Storage

Wesley Duffee-BraunSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Jesse JaggarsSenior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Warren MitchellSoftware Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
There are unique challenges to backing up data stored on a distributed storage
solution, such as Red Hat Gluster Storage. In this session, attendees will work
with data on Red Hat Gluster Storage and will isolate system architectures to
perform efficient backups of the data. This backup will be performed while the
distributed filesystem is still live! The lab will focus on using the unshare
utility, part of the Red Hat system utilities, to isolate the backup program
leaving the rest of the systems running fully connected.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Ballroom B-1Friday, June 2611:30 am - 1:30 pm

DevOps: The UnPanel

Avinash CavaleCEO, Shippable, Inc.
Jennifer KriegerAgile Coach, Red Hat, Inc.
Judd MaltinSystems Principal Engineer, Dell
Diane MuellerDirector, Community Development, Red Hat, Inc.
Grant ShipleySr. Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat, Inc.
Just what is DevOps? Depending on who's talking, but it definitely has become a lightning rod. We'll kick off the BoF discussion with an 'unPanel' that includes Jen Krieger (Red Hat), Avi Cavale (Shippable), Judd Matlin (Dell), and Grant Shipley (Red Hat) and hosted by Diane Mueller (Red Hat)

What are you doing or considering doing around DevOps at your organization? Let's get together to talk about what you know and what you think, about the promises and pitfalls of DevOps.

Here's your opportunity to meet the community of DevOps practitioners from all over the world that are here at DevNation, share their experiences and debate ideas under the umbrella of this DevOps banned that has become the lightning rod for people who have something to say about how IT was or should be running. Come join the conversation and meetup with all your DevOps peers at this BoF and tell us what you think!

Topics: Application development & integration

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
204Wednesday, June 246:00 pm - 7:00 pm2

Government luncheon - Fireside chat

David EgtsChief Technologist, US Public Sector, Red Hat, Inc.
Coming soon.

Developing the right solution for the right application: Supporting Volvo's journey to the cloud

David SundqvistManager, Application Hosting Java Service Design, Volvo Group Headquarters Corporate Process & IT
Odd WallerVolvo
For a large company with a significant installed base of legacy applications, the diverse and sometimes conflicting business requirements make modernizing infrastructure a daunting task, especially when considering supporting requirements of flexibility and lead times while fulfilling policy and standards. By using Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Volvo has built a hybrid solution to support a non-disruptive transition for applications running on traditional infrastructure. This speeds up and allows a step-by-step adoption of modern development methods and enables true cloud-ready applications.

In this session, we will discuss:

  • Business requirements for current and future environments

  • Approach to achieve sufficient flexibility

  • Results



Topics: Infrastructure, IaaS, Flexibility, Virtualization, Cloud computing, Linux platforms

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
306Wednesday, June 242:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform enterprise capabilities

Das KamhoutCPG, Intel
Perry MyersRed Hat
John WilliamsDell
This BoF session will overview some of the recent work that has gone into OpenStack upstream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform that close gaps for deploying enterprise workloads on OpenStack. Das Kamhout from Intel, Perry Myers from Red Hat, and JT Williams from Dell will give a brief overview, and then open up the floor to input and questions from people to get thoughts and opinions on where other enterprise feature gaps
exist, to help prioritize our ongoing collaboration during the OpenStack Liberty cycle and beyond.

Topics: , Modularity, Reliability, Performance, Scalability, Cloud computing

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
206Wednesday, June 246:00 pm - 7:00 pm3

Getting things done with Ansible

Greg DeKoenigsbergVP Of Community, Ansible, Inc.
Ansible is an awesome tool for automating just about anything. Are you an Ansible user? Do you want to be an Ansible user? Do you want to get to know an Ansible user? Then come hang out, and hear how others are using Ansible. We’ll be sharing what’s coming soon in Ansible v2 -- and allowing plenty of time for the Ansible stories and topics of your choice. 

Possible topics include:


  • Ansible + OpenStack

  • Ansible + Docker

  • Ansible + Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora

  • Ansible + continuous integration / continuous deployment

  • Ansible + just about anything else!

  • Ansible has more than 11,000 stars on GitHub -- why is it so darned popular?

Room Date Time Technical difficulty
203Wednesday, June 246:00 pm - 7:00 pm2

Breakfast

Attendee breakfast.
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Hall BWednesday, June 247:30 am - 8:30 am
Hall BThursday, June 257:30 am - 8:30 am
Hall BFriday, June 268:45 am - 9:45 am

Lunch in the Partner Pavilion

Overflow in Hall B (Level 1)
Room Date Time Technical difficulty
Hall C and D - Level 2Wednesday, June 2411:30 am - 1:30 pm
Hall C and D - Level 2Thursday, June 2511:30 am - 1:30 pm