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?

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Last year we visited the Microsoft Galaxy - and it was an interesting experience. This year we will travel again to the good, the bad and the ugly of the Microsoft ecosystem and identify opportunities that will guide you to great revenue sources. We will visit the Microsoft Cloud world and we will find out how serious Microsoft is about supporting Open Standards. We will also shed some light on current topics on the political level. So join us again and enjoy the trip to the weird wonderland of Microsoft.

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.

Learn how Red Hat views the competitive landscape around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how to successfully navigate it. Unix-to-RHEL migrations have been a growth engine for Red Hat and its partners for many years, but as it continues to grow, competition intensifies. Get the latest insights on Oracle, Microsoft, Attachmate and others as well as how to win with Red Hat products.

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.

It’s a fact of life: cloud computing is hot. And when it comes to the use of cloud services, business today is actually outpacing IT. CIO’s need a systematic way to build a comprehensive solution to build, manage and consume cloud services in a common way across any source.
In this session, you will learn the requirements needed to deliver a hybrid cloud environment and experience how HP CloudSystem delivers the most complete, integrated system for building and managing services across private, public, and hosted cloud environments. Based on proven, innovation such as HP Cloud Service Automation and Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudSystem integrates and automates system management, servers, storage, networking, and security – providing the ideal platform to accelerate to the data centre of the future.