The cloud evolution.  The latest in virtualization.  What's happening on the middleware and developer front.  New alliances -- and enemies. As our landscape constantly shifts,  there are many dynamics affecting  our company and technology roadmap.  Paul Cormier, President of products and technologies will discuss the latest on the competitive front, the importance of industry-shaping alliances and give you a birds eye view into our products, technologies and plans for the future.
 

There is a silent revolution taking place. The powerful economic case of combing open source solutions and cloud-based delivery is rapidly creating a new, unbeatable benchmark against which any new IT solution will be measured. But transformation is about more than just a compelling business case. What does it really take to convince both the business and IT side? How do you create integrated, aligned solution sets from multiple, open and cloud-based sources? And what does an Open Industry Cloud look like, or even better: how do you keep it alive?

This session will provide a review and outlook to the Red Hat Partner Strategy in EMEA and updates to the partner program. During the session, we are going share with you more of the insight we gained throughout the year, and on our strategic partner initiatives that are to come in the near future, for you to participate in.

In 2010 the faster growing operating system was Linux with Red Hat Enterprise Linux dominating the commercial Linux server market.
This clearly demonstrates that the market has accepted Linux as a viable alternative to Unix and other proprietary OSes in even in the most demanding mission-critical environments as end users adopt more and more open-standard systems.

Join this session to learn how RH sees the future of OS market with only two dominant operating systems being Linux and Microsoft, and how partners can benefit from this trend by providing services and solutions around migrations and solutions based on open standards.

In this presentation, various common mistakes are discussed. Red Hat shares some examples, and we'd like to gather some from you, if you will provide others from your team or other organizations that apply during the presentation.

One of the challenges of doing business the open source way is the balance of experience and expectations in your employees and shareholders. Accurately practicing the principles of open source requires diligence and patience. Sometimes other instincts and requirements cross the pathway of essential community principles.

Putting your community principles first in action and in risk analysis is essential to accurate practice of the open source way.

Ironically, even the best organizations are not always the best at what they do. Sometimes they break every rule in The Open Source Way.  In fact, every rule is being broken right now, somewhere inside of our favorite organizations.

A flash screencast of this presentation is available at: https://emea-partner-summit.com/content/open-source-way-done-wrong-0

For more information read http://www.theopensourceway.org and http://www.opensource.com.

You may also want to visit Matthias Stürmer's presentation "Doing the Impossible: Managing Open Source Communities" and watch

• my presentation "Comunities beyond Open Source" (video here)
• or the one from Jan Wildeboer "Introducing TOSW (The Open Source Way / Red Hat ecosystem)" from last year.

In this session Craig will discuss the changes taking place within the middleware market.  The nature of application development and application integration is changing. Lightweight platforms, mobile applications, an explosion of programming models and new languages, and cloud computing are changing the requirements for middleware.

In this session, Mr. Muzilla will discuss how JBoss Enterprise Middleware in innovating and changing to meet these new requirements.  He will discuss how JBoss is ready for cloud computing today and how it is a major part Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS and other cloud offerings.

In this session, attendees will learn about how Symantec’s Storage Foundation and Clustering technologies can be used to simplify the migration from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and increase the Linux adoption rate in large enterprise customers.  Topics discussed will include

• Making the migration path from UNIX to Red Hat easier while improving storage management without significant application downtime.
• How Cross‐Platform Data Sharing and advanced snapshot technology simplifies movement of data to Red Hat for backup or post‐processing.
• Migrating between heterogeneous storage while keeping applications online, giving organizations the freedom to choose any mix of storage for your environment.
• Migrating from thick to thin storage while reclaiming unused storage and keeping applications online. Keeping theenvironment thin over time through automatic storage reclamations.

Today's open source world is a completely heterogeneous mix of voluntary communities, open source service providers, non-for-profit associations, government agencies and many more actors. In this context it is a great challenge for a firm to manage successfully its open source projects and create a properous community for them. Several recent examples have shown that such business-controlled communities broke apart through the forking of the project. This speech will analyze why voluntary contributors are beneficious to an open source community, how different types of open source projects are governed, and, by providing examples, what companies have to do to direct their own communities through the perfect balance between control and openness.

Take the advantage in this session to discuss all training and certification related business aspects. Get an update on the curriculum and certification roadmap. Openly share best practices and strategies in different countries. Have all your question addressed by the EMEA Training Management in an interactive forum.