Join Interactive Ideas as we introduce you to The 'Open' Stack that leverages best of breed enterprise Open Source software in a full featured technology stack. Due to Red Hat adoption maturing in the platform market, end users are looking to use Open Source further up the technology stack. The session will talk about how to position various open source technology as a stack to provide alternatives to mainstream proprietary software, to your existing Red Hat customer base. Find out how Interactive Ideas can help you get the message to market and develop your Open Source business...

Aim of the project was the implementation of a RHEV environment which is capable to run about 300 virtual machines, distributed on 2 datacenter sites to survive a complete loss of one datacenter (high availability).

The virtual machines must be able to host RHEL 5, RHEL 6, SuSE10 and Windows 2003/2008 operating systems.

A further demand of the customer was to convert the existing machines into RHEV (p2v) and get easy administration by using Red Hat Network Satellite Server.

Key Parameters:

• Solution consists of 30 physical HP DL 380 G7 servers as hypervisors.
• Management Servers running Red Hat Cluster Suite: 2 FSC RX600 machines for the infrastructure services (Red Hat Satellite, DNS, LDAP, RHEV-Manager)
• Solution is distributed/separated on 2 data centers to grant highest availability

All too often when companies consider migrations from UNIX to Linux they only focus on the before and after costs. Of course, achieving a lower TCO is the goal, but savvy IT organizations understand that if they can’t manage their migration costs the lowered TCO could be lost before the migration is done.

Join Andrew Galewsky, MoveOp CTO, for the session “Uncover and Address the Hidden Costs of UNIX to Linux Migrations with MoveOp” for a business and technical discussion on the process of migration to Linux and understand how MoveOp software reduces risk, cost and complexity in migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Here are just a few of key benefits MoveOp Migration Readiness Master delivers within the migration process:

Planning: Automation of candidate system inventory/data collection with detailed mapping to candidate target Linux distributions and associated suitability scoring for each. The result is greatly reduced waiting times for client data, with improved data depth and accuracy, as well as automated, detailed suitability reports that you can share with clients and use for prioritization of candidate systems for migration.

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite is designed to provide the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle management experience. The primary objective of lifecycle management is to deliver quality systems within cost and when promised, using an identifiable, measurable and repeatable process.
In this session, we will show how RHN Satellite brings a best-of-breed management process, together with superior tooling, to achieve this for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

In 2007, Munich Re, one of the world's leading reinsurers, launched a project to reduce operating costs and streamline the performance of its own server landscape with more than 80 SAP systems. Another objective was to add more flexibility to the allocation of computing power. At the same time, Munich Re placed heavy demands on the technical stability of its infrastructure. To achieve these objectives, Munich Re decided to migrate its entire SAP landscape from HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

In this session you will learn the facts about one of the largest SAP migration projects and the benefits that it brought to the customer Munich Re.

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.

In this session, Hermes de Backere and Tim Peeters will discuss the migration from IBM WebSphere Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. We'll have a quick look at the architecture and the products used, including mod_cluster and JBoss Operations Network.

We'll zoom in on a specific requirement from the client to be able to do automated deployments on the new JBoss infrastructure. In today's landscape, releases are delivered on a frequent, regular basis. We left behind manual and semi-scripted deployments to integrate the customers' continuous integration environment, Maven repository manager and Subversion repository. We'll show you how you can lower operating costs and decrease the number of deployment errors drastically by eliminating inefficiencies
in the deployment process.