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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Panel Discussion

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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