Red Hat's cloud vision is unlike that of any other IT vendors. We recognize that  IT infrastructure is - and will continue to be - composed by pieces from many different hardware and software vendors.
In this session we will show you how Red Hat's cloud solution will help customers use and manage these diverse assets as one cloud. Enabling customers access to the cloud will be an evolution, not a revolution or a monolithic stack locked to the technology roadmap and business practices of a single vendor.

Red Hat CloudForms provides the infrastructure needed to build your own private IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) cloud. In this session, we will show attendees how Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network Satellite and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization can be used to create your own private IaaS cloud. We will also discuss how Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid and JBoss Operations Network extend the infrastructure, enabling grid and middleware deployments on the established cloud.
Additionally, we will provide information from the initial reference architectures on Red Hat CloudForms.

Join us to learn details about:

• The differing infrastructure and virtualization clusters of Red Hat CloudForms
• Providing high availability management services to the cloud
• Automated bare-metal and virtualization provisioning to the cloud
• Deploying and monitoring applications
• Scaling out to a hybrid cloud (grid)
• Automated cloud deployments

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization extends the core KVM hypervisor technology that ships within Red Hat Enterprise Linux, adding a powerful management platform as well as supporting advanced features such as clustering, live migration, dynamic resource management, templates and snapshots.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for desktops delivers incredible hypervisor performance, including unmatched virtual machine density with a true local PC-like user experience, for both Linux and Windows desktops. Standard features such as bi-directional audio and video, complete USB data redirection and full-motion video playback deliver quantifiable cost savings of up to 70 percent, compared to the competition.

In this session, we will outline the high-level architecture of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, covering key technical features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2

You can also experience the RHEV for Servers and VDI solutions live, by looking at the VDI setup we're using in our labs at Partner Summit. The lab infrastructure is powered by the Red Hat VDI solution, IBM servers and IGEL thin clients.

KVM and the IBM System x eX5 in action. The lab sessions during the Red Hat Partner Summit are powered by IBM System x eX5 servers. How can business partners use this scenario to profit from the combination of winning technology? Smaller and medium sized companies are looking for highly reliable technologies to take the virtualization path and be prepared for the cloud. Within IBM, KVM has a strategic position, that will let you profit by driving it to be your top offering.

It’s a fact of life: cloud computing is hot. And when it comes to the use of cloud services, business today is actually outpacing IT. CIO’s need a systematic way to build a comprehensive solution to build, manage and consume cloud services in a common way across any source.
In this session, you will learn the requirements needed to deliver a hybrid cloud environment and experience how HP CloudSystem delivers the most complete, integrated system for building and managing services across private, public, and hosted cloud environments. Based on proven, innovation such as HP Cloud Service Automation and Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudSystem integrates and automates system management, servers, storage, networking, and security – providing the ideal platform to accelerate to the data centre of the future.
 

Over the past few years, thin clients have been quoted as being the natural progression for companies who want to centralise and deploy their applications, using Server Based Computing architectures. However, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has made the argument for Thin Clients a popular discussion, but where do they fit and how can they reduce costs?

Join Simon Richards in this discussion on thin clients and its relevant cost savings

• Thin Clients in a VDI world
• The cost benefit of thin clients
• Fat PC to Thin Client Migration

RHEV is the new virtualization platform from Red Hat.
The lab will cover :

• configuration
• best practices, backup
• VDI, IGEL

Gain insight into the Red Hat cloud architecture. In this session we will discuss how it provides for the next generation of private and hybrid cloud deployments. We will cover a range of topics, ranging from CDL (Content Definition Language), running and mapping services, the cloud, managing quota, federating storage, dealing with replication and monitoring. By the end of this session, attendees should have a clear understanding of how Red Hat is enabling Cloud for enterprise use-cases.

Learn about the latest changes coming to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization,  and how they will further increase the value of deploying this technology to handle the most demanding and critical workloads.

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product has been in the market for more than 2 years, experiencing accelerating customer adoption, and there some exciting plans around the further extension of features and functionality.

In this session we will share:
  * Examples of customer deployments
  * Common practices and use cases
  * Partner sales strategy and sales lifecycle analysis
  * The roadmap for the next 18 months