Although the benefits of adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) are many, in practice enterprises experience major challenges in migrating their IT environments toward agile, SOA-based frameworks. Our experience has shown that one of the key stumbling blocks in SOA adoption is fundamental – dealing with all the disparate data already present in the enterprise.

Analysts estimate that over 70 percent of the “services” in an SOA are actually data services. One of the reasons that this creates a challenge is because of the “impedance mismatch” between the different types of data: SOA-oriented data is for the most part XML-based, whereas the vast majority of data already present in the enterprise is in the form of relationally-structured data in a database.

In this session, we will introduce JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform, an optional new add-on to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform that addresses this challenge. JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform is based on the industry-leading data integration technology that Red Hat acquired from MetaMatrix in 2007. Now completely open source (based on the Teiid project at jboss.org/teiid), JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform is fully integrated with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and provides a powerful set of tools that elegantly solve one of the hardest problems in SOA development – getting to the data.

This session will include:

• A discussion about the overall design and architecture of the technology
• An introduction to the tooling for rapidly creating data services
• An overview of common data integration use cases/patterns
• A real live project description 
• Lessons on how to jumpstart your SOA with data services

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 will be released with a new Subscription Manager tool. This will tell users exactly what products are installed on the machine, the exact subscription that is providing updates to the machine and when that subscription expires. In addition, the subscription data is secure and enables authenticated connections to Red Hat’s new content delivery network (CDN). This new CDN will provide improved access to updates and errata.

In this session we will:

• Summarize the new Subscription Manager tooling
• Demonstrate the new functionality available at redhat.com
• Outline how the CDN works
• Describe how the subscription and product data is stored on the file system
• Discuss how system administrators can use this new data including integrating it with Assent Management Systems

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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.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a lifecycle of at least seven years for major releases, and typically has a new major release every two or three years.
This means that there are three supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux major releases at any given time. Customers can extend the lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, up to ten years, with Extended Lifecycle Support. In addition, it is possible for customers to stay on a particular minor release for up to 24 months with Extended Update Support. This gives plenty of options to our customers for planning the lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments at their premises.

In this session you will learn about:

• Red Hat's support policies
• The lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a deep-dive
• Identifying when Extended Update Support can help customers
• How and when customers can use Extended Lifecycle Support

A Business Process Management System (BPMS) offers you the capabilities to better manage and streamline your business processes. JBoss jBPM continues its vision in this area by offering a lightweight process engine for executing business processes, combined with the necessary services and tooling to support business processes in their entire lifecycles. This allows not only developers but also business users to manage your business processes more efficiently.

A lot has happened in the BPM area over the last few years, with the introduction of the BPMN 2.0 standard, the increasing interest in more dynamic and adaptive processes, integration with business rules and event processing, case management, etc. In this session,  we will show you how jBPM5 tackles these challenges, disucss migration to this new plaform and give you an overview of its most important features.

Mark Little, CTO of JBoss, will discuss the JBoss Vision, Strategy, Direction and Outlook. There will also be room for Discussion/Q&A.

Based on a joint initiative from HP, Intel and Red Hat, hosted at the Grenoble, France HP/Intel EMEA Solution Center, this presentation will detail how to plan the Roadmap for a successful RISC/Unix to ProLiant/Xeon/RHEL migration.

Of course, migrating from RISC/Unix to ProLiant/IA/RHEL comprises code porting. Combining their joint forces, HP, Intel and Red Hat can help partners and customers dramatically reduce the time of migration, as well as the risk around it. Methods, tools and services are in place today to help you in that process.

Then modifications are also required at the infrastructure level to support operating an Open Source Next Generation Data Center (provisioning, deployment, monitoring, security, virtualization, packaging, ...) up to the day to day operation of the final solution.

Finally migrating is not only made of technical activities: it also includes the study of the impact of Open Source introduction into your IT Governance program. HP has more than 10 years of experience to share in Open Source Governance.

HP/Intel/Red Hat joined forces to allow our common customers and partners to achieve a global succesful migration over time allowing hardware and software independence, TCO reduction, IT control improvement.

As interest and demand increases for larger and faster hardware, to support ever-increasing customer workloads, the complexity of managing these servers and software components also grows. Companies and organizations are looking for ways to provide their hardware resources and applications, to ensure that these complex systems meet their performance, availability and SLA (Service Level Agreement) requirements, and do not compromise shared resources in baremetal or virtualized execution environments.

The Control Groups (cGroups) feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides several “resource controllers” that manage different hardware resources, such as CPU task scheduling, memory allocation, network bandwidth and storage I/O bandwidth.

In this session, we will focus on the capabilities of the different types of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 controller groups, in various operating environments. We will conclude with live demonstrations, and review example configurations for a series of use-cases.