Open Source Benefits and Implications
Undeniably, enterprise adoption of open source has gone mainstream. According to IDC's recent study*, companies worldwide are showing increasing interest in investing in open source mainly Linux technology. The study also confirms customer demand for Linux as Linux is becoming a basic part of services portfolio of major solutions providers such as IBM, HP and Unisy. It is apparent enterprises today are trying to take advantage of the quality, flexibility and license cost savings that comes with open source. Going beyond effect of open source adoption on the profit margin, there is also much discussion about the propagation of open standards, open source community contributions and open source as a tool for technological advancement and creation of software industry and entrepreneurship in Asia Pacific cities. Hear thought leaders, industry leaders and government leaders speak about social, economical and political benefits, issues and implications of the open source movement now sweeping across Asia Pacific.
*Worldwide Open Source Services 2006 Vendor Analysis: The Open Source Services Opportunity
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The Power of Choice: Open Source Architecture
Today, top CIO priorities* include cost reduction, revenue growth and driving business innovation. IT decision makers do not want to make time-consuming decisions, deal with different vendors touting a multitude of solutions, only to realise, after paying a hefty bill, that the solutions are not sustainable, sometimes incompatible in terms of operational scalability and performance. Costly licenses and upgrades, and technology in-agility will only reflect short-term planning and sporadic IT investment, the bane of ROI conscious CIOs. Hear the case for Open Source Architecture – a long term vision built on open standards and interoperability. The operational architecture delivers a suite of standard based technologies and services, allowing open source and traditional software applications to be deployed on a reliable, secure, scalable and highly performing platform. To the enterprise, it is the power to assemble the architecture, hardware, software and middleware and applications that best fulfill the goals of the business. This session also goes back to the fundamentals, what open source computing for the enterprise is really about.
*The state of the CIO survey 2006, CIO.com
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Crossing the SOA Chasm with Open Source
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a compelling methodology, a modern approach to distributed computing which helps to reform the nature of flexibility and agility of corporate business service delivery. However, the depth and breath of functionality which SOA spans requires corporate decision makers to carefully consider the scope and scale of implementation due to the number of software tools needed. With open source software, the march towards SOA can begins with minimal capital risk. In recent months, there are many open source offerings in the SOA space of which if properly leveraged can be a great step for corporate to evolve towards true realm of agility they need. This session explores the mix of open source technologies, their offerings and the issues involved in this blend of open source SOA approach. SOA concepts and features will be explored in the context of open source offerings. Open source evolving nature blends well with SOA of which coping with change is an extremely important factor in the equation. Crossing the chasm with open source is certainly looking interesting.
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Business Tracks
Solving Real Business Problems : Virtualisation
Emerging technologies often stem from the need to address the challenges of their users. Virtualisation, a technology created a few decades ago, has become an enterprise requirement today. With this session, gain insight into how Red Hat's virtualisation platform can reduce the total cost of ownership for enterprise computing infrastructure by improving system utilisation; maintain operational agility through scalability in the management of hardware and software, and enhance security through continuous availability. Companies, can benefit from enhanced security through server failure isolation avoiding the domino effect of multiple server crashes, enjoy the ability for development, staging and testing and also stand to gain from cost effective client management. This session also into the Xen project, planned for inclusion in the future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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Security and ID Management: Keeping Your Business Safe
Security tops the list of concerns for IT administrators. Hackers are creating bugs faster than software fixes can debut. Security intrusion are increasing difficult to prevent. How does open source address security and identity management, two key challenges facing Linux users and traditional software users alike? Why do experts think open source is more secure even when the set of technologies and codes are equally accessible by your best friends and enemies at the same time This session will provide an overview of open source projects and technologies employed at all layers of a security infrastructure, addressing issues ranging from identity and access management to application, network, and kernel-level operating system protections. Learn how Security Enhanced- Linux available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 can keep your business safe.
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Lowering TCO and Increasing Returns with Jboss Enterprise Management Suite Service Oriented Architecture
This presentation goes into the key problem area of Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise IT departments by making use of Service Oriented architecture (SOA).
Today, the IT budget is either shrinking or is constant, while the demand for service and growth is ever growing! With more and more advancement in technologies and with distributed work places, mergers and acquisitions, we find IT folks left with a spaghetti of assets, trying to maneuver their way to weave and put together the different pieces of the puzzle.
SOA can breathe in new life to existing assets making them ready for the future. It also goes into the challenges that are typically faced by organization and recommending remedies and approaches to succeed. In this talk, several example scenarios are discussed and problems addressed. At the end, You can go out with a recipe for reducing your Enterprise IT spending, while making sure that your applications can cater to future needs!
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Red Hat Enterprise Road Map
Find out what's new and exciting in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line. We will start with an overview of the latest new features and hardware support that have been added to the updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Then its on to a sneak peek at the major feature enhancements planned for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with an overview of the major themes and focus areas. There will also be time for audience feedback regarding individual interests for enhancements to upcoming releases.
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Red Hat Certified Stacks
Red Hat Certified Stacks are a set of open source technologies integrated and tested as a standard and resolve limitations faced by developers for web-based application development and deployment. Find out more about the LAMP stack and the Web Application Stack that are integrated and tested on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.
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Xen and the State of Open Source Virtualisation
The advent of virtualization for commodity systems delivers the ability to lower costs by improving system utilization and add flexibility in the management of hardware and software. This session will delve into the current state of the Xen project and its inclusion in Fedora Core and the future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Building Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture Using Jboss Enterprise Middleware Suite
This presentation describes how to put together an Enterprise Service Bus using JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite). Today, the IT budget is shrinking, while the demand for service and growth is ever growing! With more and more delivery channels introduced, features asked for, uniformity of business and maintenance is becoming more and more exposed! SOA can breathe in new life to existing assets making them ready for the future. This also means that we don't have to duplicate business logic making them easier to manage and modify. Also this introduces a complex problem of how disparate and distributed services can be consumed by clients that are distributed and away. This dictates and even with enterprises, Software has to be delivered as a Service rather than an isolated installation! The only solution today for such a problem is to implement a Service Bus across the Enterprise with services that can be attached and detached,addressed like any objects, and with well defined and sufficiently granulated messages for interaction.This highly technical presentation goes into the Goals and Requirements of the ESB citing real life examples, discusses the architecture and finally explains the current state and the road map of the JBoss ESB. Various products that are part of JEMS and their features are described and this talk shows how they all work together to provide the Enterprise Service Fabric.
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Red Hat 108: Contribute. Collaborate
Open Source is forming the foundation of your software tools, testing, and deployment. Where do you look to find the tools to help you build these solutions? For support from the community? Or if you just want to learn? Start with Red Hat 108. Learn how you can benefit from our Red Hat 108 portal to contribute and collaborate with the Open Source community.
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Dynamic Linux Kernel Instrumentation with SystemTap
SystemTap allows developers and administrators to write and reuse simple scripts for deep examinations of live Linux system activities. Data may be extracted, filtered, and summarized quickly and safely to enable diagnoses of complex performance or functional problems. This talk will introduce the SystemTap tool, discuss the types of problems it may help solve, and outline how the tool works. Experience a taste of the SystemTap scripting language with several increasingly complex live demos during the session.
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Reducing the Costs of Management with Stateless Linux
Historically, administrators of large, uniform deployments have faced many difficulties in managing their deployments. With Stateless Linux, the configuration and content is divorced from the physical machine. Gain insights into how it may be expanded in future releases and how these features will appear in the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Fedora Overview and Update
The Fedora Project is a Red Hat and community-supported open source project. Join us to learn more about Fedora and how new technologies are developed, integrated, and tested in the community before making their way into tomorrow's enterprise products.
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Reducing the Costs of Management with Stateless Linux
Historically, administrators of large, uniform deployments have faced many difficulties in managing their deployments. With Stateless Linux, the configuration and content are divorced from the physical machine. Gain insights into how Stateless Linux may be expanded in future releases including the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture with JBoss Enterprise Service Bus
This presentation describes how to put together an Enterprise Service Bus using JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite). Today, the IT budget is shrinking, while the demand for service and growth is ever growing! With more and more delivery channels introduced, features asked for, uniformity of business and maintenance is becoming more and more exposed! SOA can breathe in new life to existing assets making them ready for the future. This also means that we don't have to duplicate business logic making them easier to manage and modify. Also this introduces a complex problem of how disparate and distributed services can be consumed by clients that are distributed and away. This dictates and even with enterprises, Software has to be delivered as a Service rather than an isolated installation!
The only solution today for such a problem is to implement a Service Bus across the Enterprise with services that can be attached and detached, addressed like any objects, and with well defined and sufficiently granulated messages for interaction.
This highly technical presentation goes into the Goals and Requirements of the ESB citing real life examples, discusses the architecture and finally explains the current state and the road map of the JBoss ESB.
Various products that are part of JEMS and their features are described and this talk shows how they all work together to provide the Enterprise Service Fabric.
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Red Hat Certified Stacks
Red Hat Certified Stacks are a set of open source technologies integrated and tested as a standard and resolve limitations faced by developers for web-based application development and deployment. Find out more about the LAMP stack and the Web Application Stack that are integrated and tested on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.
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Security Enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Bugs in programs are unavoidable. Programs developed using C and C++ are especially in danger. If bugs cannot be avoided, the next best thing is to limit the damage. Let's look at the improvements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux which achieve just that.
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Red Hat 108: Contribute. Collaborate.
Open Source is forming the foundation of your software tools, testing, and deployment. Where do you look to find the tools to help you build these solutions? Where can you get support from the community? Or if you just want to learn? Start with Red Hat 108. Learn how you can benefit from our Red Hat 108 portal to contribute and collaborate with the open source community.
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Xen and the State of Open Source Virtualisation
The advent of virtualisation for commodity systems delivers the ability to lower costs by improving system utilisation and flexibility in the management of hardware and software. This session will delve into the current state of the Xen project and its inclusion in Fedora Core and the future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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SELinux for Administrators in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Beyond the hype, SELinux is an exceptionally powerful Mandatory Access Control System that provides strong control over access to system resources and a framework for building exceptionally secure environments. The talk will cover technical topics such as targeted policies, command and SELinux utilities, boolean policy customization, as well as introduce features and roadmaps for future directions with Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Dynamic Linux Kernel Instrumentation with SystemTap
SystemTap allows developers and administrators to write and reuse simple scripts for deep examinations of live Linux system activities. Data may be extracted, filtered, and summarized quickly and safely to enable diagnoses of complex performance or functional problems. This talk will introduce the SystemTap tool, discuss the types of problems it may help solve, and outline how the tool works. Experience a taste of the SystemTap scripting language with several increasingly complex live demonstrations during the session.
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Metrics: A Year of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 reached its first anniversary in February this year. Let's look at the state of security for the first year, including metrics, key vulnerabilities, and the most common ways users were affected by security issues. See best practices to minimize the impact of the issues and also take a look at how Red Hat security innovations like ExecShield and SELinux fared.
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Measuring Resource Demand in Linux
In order to drive utilisation with virtualisation, it is important that the right amount of resources are assigned to each virtual machine. Find out why resource demand is not the same as resource use, what is to be expected when virtualisation becomes more common, and what infrastructure should be added to the Linux kernel to measure resource demand.
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Cluster Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
This session will provide a general overview of the Red Hat high-availability products, including the Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System. Topics will include the architecture and components of these products, as well as a performance overview of the Global File System compared to Ext3 and raw devices. The talk will include a walk-through on how you can implement Red Hat Cluster Suite in the Shared Storage Model.
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Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture with JBoss Enterprise Service Bus
This presentation describes how to put together an Enterprise Service Bus using JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite). Today, the IT budget is shrinking, while the demand for service and growth is ever growing! With more and more delivery channels introduced, features asked for, uniformity of business and maintenance is becoming more and more exposed! SOA can breathe in new life to existing assets making them ready for the future. This also means that we don't have to duplicate business logic making them easier to manage and modify. Also this introduces a complex problem of how disparate and distributed services can be consumed by clients that are distributed and away. This dictates and even with enterprises, Software has to be delivered as a Service rather than an isolated installation!
The only solution today for such a problem is to implement a Service Bus across the Enterprise with services that can be attached and detached, addressed like any objects, and with well defined and sufficiently granulated messages for interaction.
This highly technical presentation goes into the Goals and Requirements of the ESB citing real life examples, discusses the architecture and finally explains the current state and the road map of the JBoss ESB.
Various products that are part of JEMS and their features are described and this talk shows how they all work together to provide the Enterprise Service Fabric.
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Accountability through Proactive Vulnerability Management
Take a look at how Red Hat adds accountability to open source vulnerability management. The talk will explain CVE and OVAL initiatives and the Red Hat severity ranking system, as well as show the best practices to keep machines running Red Hat products up-to-date. Explore Red Hat policies on backporting security fixes, the differences with Fedora, how we deal with embargoed and "0-day" issues, and how some popular open source projects find and deal with vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Certified Stacks
Red Hat Certified Stacks are a set of open source technologies integrated and tested as a standard and resolve limitations faced by developers for web-based application development and deployment. Find out more about the LAMP stack and the Web Application Stack that are integrated and tested on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.
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Defensive Programming
Programming Language APIs and their libraries are often not designed with safety in mind. The API of the C language and the Unix API (which is defined using C) are especially weak in this respect. It is not necessarily the case that all programs developed using these programming languages and APIs are unsafe. In this talk we will describe possible problems, how to prevent them, and how to discover them.
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