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Accelerate your innovation journey using containers.

Firms have become more comfortable with containers in the last 3 years and container usage is expected to continue to grow. With growth comes more sophisticated requirements. Containers support configuration management and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes by offering improved flexibility, performance, and security. Open source software has been key in unlocking container and container platform innovation. Firms have learned to use and contribute to open source to reap the rewards of communities.

In this webinar, Forrester research analyst Dave Bartoletti will share new insights from a March 2018 study into how organizations are using containers, container platforms, and open source to quicken adoption of more enterprise apps. He'll cover:

How container usage has improved in recent years.
What the future of containers and container platforms looks like.
Navigating the performance and security challenges of containers and container platforms.
How containers can improve customer experience and lower costs.
How open source can accelerate innovation in your organization.

As businesses in all types of industries are being disrupted by startups, organizations are being challenged to digitally transform themselves. Technology is playing a central role in this transformation, and the demand for applications is increasing to meet transformation goals. Application platforms, which are undergoing a transformation of their own, are playing a central role in accelerating application development.

Join this webinar to learn about:

-The evolution of application platforms.
-How containers are becoming the destination of choice for workloads.
-How companies are transforming a broad set of existing and new applications.
-Evolving a culture of greater agility.

Speakers:

Larry Carvalho, research director, PaaS, IDC

Larry Carvalho is research director of IDC's worldwide Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) research practice. He focuses on the Cloud Applications Platform (CAP)-as-a-Service aspect of PaaS and directs research into the component competitive markets of PaaS, including business process management (BPM) PaaS, database PaaS, cloud testing, and integration PaaS. Larry has extensive experience in systems integration and the enterprise software business.

Tyler Britten, technical marketing manager, OpenShift, Red Hat

Tyler Britten is a technical marketing manager for Red Hat® OpenShift® and has spent the last 15 years working with container, cloud, virtualization, and infrastructure technologies. Prior to joining Red Hat, he was a technical advocate for Blue Box, an IBM Company, and principal technical marketing manager and vSpecialist at EMC. Tyler has also been a technical consultant for a small infrastructure reseller, a network engineer for a Fortune 1000 company, and a freelance IT consultant for small businesses.

In 2017, the industry standardized on Kubernetes on the defacto container scheduler. So what does Kubernetes deliver, and how much more is needed to operate and maintain a container application platform? Learn from Red Hat’s leadership in the Kubernetes community, and many years of OpenShift customer deployments, how to enable an application platform that is built to optimize developer productivity, security and multi-cloud deployments.

As most organizations do not have the luxury of completely rebuilding their technology foundation or immediately adopting new practices and mindsets, they are embracing gradual yet fundamental shifts in culture, processes, and technology to support greater velocity and agility. With software increasingly key to how users engage with businesses and how businesses innovate to stay competitive, the speed of application development and delivery is the new digital business imperative. The cloud-native approach describes a way of modernizing existing applications and building new applications based on cloud principles, using services and adopting processes optimized for the agility and automation of cloud computing.

In this webinar, Red Hat provides an 8-step roadmap to guide your cloud-native application journey. Highlights include:

-Evolving a DevOps culture and practices.
-Speeding up existing applications using fast monoliths.
-Using application services to reduce development times.
-Choosing the right tool for the right task.
-Providing self-service, on-demand infrastructure.

Evolve to a more modular architecture with a cloud-native application strategy that automates your IT and provides continuous delivery and advanced deployment techniques.

Speaker: Cesar Saavedra, senior principal technical product marketing manager, Red Hat

Cesar Saavedra, Red Hat senior principal technical product marketing manager, focuses on Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), Eclipse MicroProfile, OpenJDK, and Jakarta EE. He manages the technical marketing for application development middleware solutions and works closely with engineering and product management on thought leadership. Cesar has authored whitepapers and blog posts and has been a conference and webinar presenter to customers and partners. Before joining Red Hat, he worked at IBM, Oracle, BEA Systems, TIBCO, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

DevOps practices deliver speed and reliability improvements for sustainable competitive advantages. Foundational DevOps practices include the use of agile development, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and cloud platforms that increase the automation and security of software delivery practices to deliver business outcomes.

In December 2017, IDC conducted a global study commissioned by Red Hat to assess strategies and spending related to enterprise DevOps, the use of containers and container orchestration products such as Kubernetes, and related topics such as continuous integration and agile software development.

In this webinar, we’ll examine the study and discuss topics such as:
-How DevOps practices help improve speed and reliability to deliver sustainable competitive advantages.
-Pressures that IT infrastructure and operations teams face to meet the increasing speed of application development and deployment from DevOps teams.
-The role DevOps plays in increasing the security of applications.
-Frequency of agile development practices used for workloads today.

Apache Camel has fundamentally changed the way enterprise Java™ developers think about system-to-system integration by making enterprise integration patterns (EIP) a simple declaration in a lightweight application—wrapped and delivered as a single JAR.

In this webinar, we’ll show you how to bring EIP best practices to containers running on top of Kubernetes and deployed as Spring Boot microservices, which are both cloud-native and cloud-portable. We'll discuss:

- How building and designing cloud-native microservices impacts the way we develop.
- How to build distributed and fault-tolerant microservices.
- The upcoming Camel 3.0 release, which includes serverless capabilities via Camel K.

Every industry is realizing that the business experience is now software-centric and applications are becoming one of the primary means with which companies engage customers and partners.

We now have access to the same technology that the large internet companies pioneered and used to their advantage to dominate their respective markets. What challenges arise when we start building applications to take advantage of this new technology?

With all the hype about moving to the cloud, the reality remains that no one-size-fit-all solution exists for running enterprise application workloads due to legacy complexity, data, and security concerns. So how do CIOs navigate the technology options that allow organizations to run any application workload on any cloud?

Attendees will gain a better understanding of the following:
- What cloud-native application development means and how to deliver better software faster to create better business outcomes
- How to choose the right application services and runtime for your workload
- How to use the Red Hat Cloud Native Stack to build and run applications on any cloud

Kubernetes, microservices, AI and machine learning have forever changed the traditional enterprise tech stack. As DevOps practices become increasingly more adopted and widely used, automation is imperative for your tech teams and cloud infrastructure to remain scalable and turnkey. Join this live panel discussion with experts in the Cloud, IT Infrastructure and DevOps communities as they discuss these and other major trends, and what to look out for in the coming years.

Topics include:
- How to accelerate software delivery in the era of automation and composable infrastructure
- Infrastructure as code and changing organizational design
- How to properly set up your DevOps automation and see big cloud cost savings
- The future of DevOps in the cloud and real life use cases for applications and machine learning

Moderator: Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor & Founding Partner, Kumulus Technologies
Panelists:
Syed Rasheed, Director of Portolio Solution, Red Hat
Tarak Modi, CTO, TekNirvana

Investment in application programming interface (API) management software increased by an average of 44% from 2012 to 2017, according to IDC.1 This growth reflects the tremendous importance of APIs to today’s businesses. While opening up digital assets promises new opportunities, companies must develop new processes to ensure that APIs are built efficiently and securely.

This session will cover Red Hat’s approach for API development. We’ll discuss how to:

- Use mocking to speed up and break dependencies.
- Use a contract-first approach for defining tests that will harden your implementation.
- Protect exposed APIs through a management gateway.
- Manage deliveries using a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Digital transformation projects present many technological and organizational challenges. A key challenge is developing modern, cloud-native applications that connect customers directly using automated business processes and decisions. Creating these applications requires a radical change in how software is built—moving away from traditional, IT-led software development to a process that lets both developers and business experts contribute directly to application logic. Please join us as Prakasha Aradhya, Red Hat Senior Product Manager, will discuss how Red Hat® business rules and process automation solutions help business users and developers collaborate as equal partners to create modern applications.