Open Demo: Ansible Automation 4/27/20

During this webinar you will see:
- How to address infrastructure demand and scalability issues.
- Ways you can turn legacy operations teams into a modern and digitally innovative self-service team.
- How adopting a similar approach can help improve satisfaction with your customers and within your own team.

Increasingly, organizations are realizing Kubernetes can deliver agility and efficiency benefits for not only their application development but also for their critical enterprise applications running in production. However, with this trend comes additional key considerations which must be addressed. One of the most significant of these concerns is data resiliency for not just the applications themselves, but also the data they produce and consume, as well as the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure.

Attendees will learn about these trends and what the key considerations are as they plan to deploy their enterprise applications on Kubernetes in production. Specifically, we will look at data protection approaches ranging from snapshots, clones, backup, and recovery to address the requirements for data resilience for Kubernetes applications. In addition to these approaches, we’ll also discuss how to handle Kubernetes-unique namespaces, application contexts, and cluster configuration in a manner which allows organizations to protect their existing data protection infrastructure investments.

Presenters:
Naveen Chhabra, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Pete Brey, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Storage & Data Services Business Unit, Red Hat
Venkat Kolli, Product Management Director, Cloud Storage & Data Services Business Unit, Red Hat

GitOps is the cornerstone of DevSecOps. And for many security-minded IT professionals, automation can sound intimidating. Join Christian as he discusses the foundations of GitOps, demystifying the practice and how it actually promotes more secure practices to give you a clear path to DevSecOps.

We’ll cover three topics:
• GitOps practices
• How GitOps automation gives you more control
• GitOps as a path to DevSecOps

Red Hat, a global leader of open source solutions, serves as a backbone in helping SAP clients become intelligent enterprises. Learn how its portfolio can reduce the complexity of migration, make your data center more efficient, simplify hybrid IT, power the intelligent edge, and allow you to generate new business value.

Demo of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Featuring:
Sean Cavanaugh, Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Network Automation
Jamie Beck, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager
Colin McNaughton, Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Automation at Red Hat
Anna Noftle, Principle Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat

In this webinar, John Lieske gives an overview of the best practices to evaluate and use Ansible within your organization and infrastructure. This webinar is for anyone new to Ansible to give a general overview. You will explore the Ansible Automation Platform and the benefits of using Ansible. Please note, this webinar is not technical in nature but rather a good summary of what you need to know to get started with automation.

As organizations move to hybrid multi-cloud architectures, they are facing greater challenges related to complexity, variability, security, and management. While cloud architectures bring technological improvements, they rarely simplify your overall IT environment, and they don’t address the training and process changes associated with their adoption. In this session, hear how Red Hat can help you achieve a consistent IT environment across multiple clouds, delivering a more efficient and more secure IT architecture.

*This is a recording from Red Hat’s Summit 2021 Virtual Experience - April 27-28, 2021. The panel of experts answered live questions related to the pitfalls and solutions of hybrid multi-cloud architectures.

Automation is at the core of firms’ technology strategies across all verticals and industries; effective businesses need technology that adapts and scales quickly, reliably, and economically. Getting started with simple, tactical automation software to begin automating processes is easy, but using it at scale and working on higher value automation that spans teams, geographies, and across management area presents challenges. What's more, leadership teams and implementers often don't see eye to eye, causing struggles from prioritization through implementation. Join us and guest speaker Glenn O'Donnell from Forrester to explore how leadership teams and implementers are misaligned, how to improve this alignment, and what benefits may be achieved by doing so.

T-Mobile, a major telecommunications provider, uses Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform to standardize processes across their organization. In this session, Benjamin Blizard, Network Engineer at T-Mobile, will explore how T-Mobile transformed from a disparate organization with difficulty enforcing standards to a collaborative group of engineers working from repeatable templates and processes. He will show how automation supports T-Mobile’s compliance standards, data integrity, and produces speed and efficiency for network teams. He will also discuss how automation played a major role in the integration of T-Mobile and Sprint technologies, and helped them get to a 5G network faster.

Get best practices and expert tips to help you end repetitive tasks and free up DevOps teams for more strategic work.

If application performance, cost overruns, uptime, and availability concerns are holding you back in your SAP S/4HANA adoption journey, learn how the #1 SAP HANA infrastructure solutions market leader helps clients accelerate insights and reduce time to value, without compromising on choice, flexibility, or performance. Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is a high stakes, high visibility initiative--learn how you can unleash the full potential of your investments while reducing risk by choosing HPE mission-critical compute solutions to power your SAP landscapes, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Automation can help security operations centers integrate the security technologies they rely on and streamline and accelerate many of the investigation and remediation processes performed every single day. In this session, we’ll cover how the Ansible security automation initiative evolved from last year to better support SecOps and security analysts with 3 common use cases: investigation enrichment, threat hunting, and remediation.

Accelerate digital transformation and decrease time to SAP S/4HANA migration, all while extending and enhancing SAP solutions. Implement end-to-end processes in 30 minutes using the Atos SAP Integration Gateway on Red Hat OpenShift. Use any programming language and a cloud native, microservices approach to integrate SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA systems. In this presentation, we will explain the side-by-side extensibility concept and show a live demo implementation of an end-to-end application.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can be a powerful tool to support security teams in investigation and remediation activities. But where does it fit in best? What are some recommendations, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid? In this session, we’ll show you how to implement and integrate Ansible in your security infrastructure, learn how to get productive fast, and what you should look out for.

As enterprises move to SAP S/4HANA while also shifting to Microsoft Azure, automation is essential to realize the benefits of both platforms. Red Hat and Microsoft will showcase the joint SAP on Azure automation proposition that completely automates SAP deployment and operations on Azure using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. With this end-to-end automation solution, customers can maximize the performance of their SAP investment on Azure while drastically reducing operational costs. This automation solution will also cut deployment time of your SAP system from days to a few hours.

Join our speakers:
Will Bratton, Head of Azure Global SAP, Engineering Team (Azure CAT), Microsoft
Pankaj Meshram, Cloud Solution Architect - SAP on Azure, Microsoft UK
Pras Abey, SAP Business Development UKI & Nordics, Red Hat