Crossing the Service-Oriented Architecture 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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Free and Open Source Software - How You Can Adopt It

An introduction to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and an examination of topics associated with the adoption of FOSS in a business environment such as robustness, security and support.

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National Australia Bank - From G2 Linux Innovation Lab to the SuperMart Project

In 2004, the National Australia Bank began a series of innovation labs to examine the value proposition, stability and viability of moving large datawarehouse and other key workloads onto low cost, commodity (x86) architectures, leveraging open source Linux and Oracle 10g clustered database. Subsequent to these labs, a number of projects have been successfully deployed on the architecture, reaping significant performance benefits over the previous approaches. This presentation will give a balanced view on how the National Australian Bank moved from innovation lab work into deploying production solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The presentation will cover learning points, pitfalls, benefits and the hype.

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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.

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Providing the Bedrock for Open Source

AMD will explore the bedrock underpinning the Open Source Architecture. One of every four servers sold in the world today is using AMD processors. The use of AMD-based systems and Linux in the data centers for the enterprise is growing faster than the market as a whole. Why is this? Both Linux and AMD x86 deliver the open computing environment that creates choice and thereby, lower TCO. AMD will speak on its work with the open source community to provide support for hardware-based virtualisation features recently released in the latest hardware.

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Business Sessions

Lowering Total Cost of Ownership and Increasing Returns with JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) Service-Oriented Architecture

This presentation looks at how enterprises can lower their total cost of ownership by making use of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). IT budgets today are shrinking while the demand for service and growth is ever growing. With advancement in technologies and distributed work places, mergers and acquisitions, IT managers have to manage assets that are dispersed all over the world. SOA can bring a new lease of life to existing assets, making them ready for the future. The presentation looks into the challenges that are typically faced by organisations with recommendations of remedies.

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MySQL: Quality, Performance and Support

This presentation gives an overview of the MySQL Database Server and related support offerings from MySQL AB. MySQL has many unique features that make it well suited for modern applications including web applications and data warehousing. We will discuss how scale-out is an affordable and easy way to handle large volumes of queries. The talk will also cover how the pluggable storage engine architecture can be used to get maximum performance and reliability. MySQL support is often considered one of the best in the business, meeting different needs of enterprises.

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Security and Identity Management: Keeping Your Business Safe

Security tops the list of concerns and expenditures for IT administrators. Exploits of vulnerabilities, identity theft and privacy concerns are driving significant investments in both defenses and best practice developments. 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 when the software source code is 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 open source technologies such as Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) are leading the adoption of new models in protecting users, applications, and data in a networked world.

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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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The Full Ecosystem of Enterprise Content Security

The industry has been led down the garden path for too long when it comes to content security. Your business will need to rely on a unified content system to meet threats head-on, yet you cannot deliver threat protection through marketing or a pretty box. This session will discuss how content security is made up of building blocks and how content security is more of a methodology than just a box.

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Why Enterprise Open Source Means More Than Cost Efficiency

Open source has been viewed as a pragmatic development methodology and a philosophy. The mindset and culture associated with open source has implications beyond software products for those who grapple with developing enterprise grade solutions. In this presentation, some fundamentals concerning expertise and judgement in the face of enterprise complexity are outlined, with parallels drawn to the current dominance in the IT landscape of outsourced service providers. The presentation will briefly explore how the open source movement provides new ground for the development of expertise needed in enterprise scale endeavours, along with implications for selection of service delivery partners.

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Technical Sessions

Building Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture Using JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS)

This highly technical presentation centers on why and how software has to be delivered as a service rather than an isolated installation. As uniformity of business and maintenance is becoming more complex, enterprises need to implement a Service Bus with services that can be attached and detached, addressed like any objects and with well defined and sufficiently granulated messages for interaction. At this session, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will be discussed with real life examples. The current state and the roadmap of the JBoss Enterprise Service Bus will also be unveiled as well as the know-how of creating the Enterprise Service Fabric.

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Migrating to a Robust and Scalable Database

This session will provide an overview of Oracle Migration Workbench and Oracle Database XE. Oracle Migration Workbench is a tool that enables migration of the entire database schema, including triggers and stored procedures, in an integrated environment. The presentation will demonstrate how this tool is deployed to migrate a non-Oracle database and the benefits and limitations of Oracle Database XE.

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Oracle-Red Hat LEAP Program for ISVs

Established to grow the ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (Sis) delivering solutions on Linux, the Linux Enterprise Application Porting (LEAP) centre is the first joint Oracle and Red Hat Linux solution centre in the world. Find out more about the objectives, services and benefits that the LEAP centre provides.

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Red Hat 108: Contribute. Collaborate.

Open source developers now have a playground to share resources, build and fetch codes, find and meet fellow developers, interact and learn about Red Hat's partners and products. 108, an open source developer community website, hosts different communities focusing on people, product and news complete, with their own mailing lists, discussion forums and subversion from programming code version and control. During this presentation, learn how you can benefit from the Red Hat 108 portal to contribute and collaborate with the open source community.

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Red Hat Desktop Comes of Age

A new dawn is breaking across the enterprise desktop landscape. Red Hat Desktop has come of age and is a viable option for organisations that demand productivity and compatibility within the enterprise. This session will review the prerequisites needed to introduce a new desktop operating system into the enterprise. It will also explain why the Red Hat Desktop succeeds in the areas of group collaboration, document exchange, security, host management, usability and support. The speaker will also cover the direction where Red Hat Desktop will be heading.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Roadmap

Find out what's new and exciting in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line. The presentation will give an overview of the latest features and hardware support that have been added to the updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Get a preview of the major feature enhancements planned for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The audience will have an opportunity to give their feedback on enhancements for consideration in upcoming releases.

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Red Hat Global File System - A General Purpose Clustered Filesystem

This presentation includes an overview of Global File System, its features and benefits. The presentation will also cover key terminologies, components such as the Red Hat Cluster Suite, and deployment methods. The focus will be on existing Global File System deployments to illustrate concepts and usage.

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Systems Management with Red Hat Network

Take a sneak peak behind the scenes of Red Hat Network, a systems management platform designed to provide complete life-cycle management of operating system and applications, including updating, provisioning and monitoring of systems through a single interface.

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Unix to Linux Migration: Tips and Tricks

Let us take you through the Unix to Linux migration process from the initial planning to the migration of the operating system, platform, application and database. This session outlines factors to be considered when planning a Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration.

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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 adding 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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