Fuel your SAP transformation plans

As cyber attackers continue to focus more and more on government agencies and their partners, the stakes keep increasing. Whether a rogue attacker or a nation state, these organizations hold both sensitive data and the keys to critical infrastructure. Defending the global networks that keep these organizations running is critical and complex. In this session, we’ll provide insights into how a leading defense contractor uses automation to ensure the secure configuration and maintenance of their network’s switches and routers. With thousands of devices, the challenge was daunting, but with the credentials for the network devices already being managed and secured through a strong privileged access management program, we’ll discuss how the Ansible team was able to rapidly develop playbooks to use these credentials to automate the configuration process, and rapidly rotate device passwords based on policy or an incident. This approach not only helped to secure the network and the data passing through it, but also to more easily meet audit and compliance requirements--a win/win. Throughout this session, we’ll discuss all the challenges facing this organization, how using a combination of privileged access management and Red Hat Ansible Tower provided significant business benefits, and tips and tricks on how other organizations can do the same.

Ansible Automation by Red Hat helps you scale IT automation, manage complex deployments and speed productivity. Centralize and control your IT infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control, job scheduling, integrated notifications and graphical inventory management. And Tower's REST API and CLI make it easy to embed Tower into existing tools and processes.

The easiest way to manage your Red Hat infrastructure for efficient and compliant IT operations. Establish trusted content repos and processes that help you build a standards-based, secure Red Hat environment.

Containers and Kubernetes are becoming the de facto standard for building, delivering, and managing modern, cloud-native applications. Many Kubernetes solutions are available, making it difficult to evaluate them all. So how do you select a container platform? What’s really important?

Join this webinar to hear about fundamental concepts to help you navigate the crowded and often confusing container platform marketspace. This webinar will help prepare you to make the best container orchestration infrastructure decision for your organization’s cloud-native applications—and accelerate innovation to better serve your customers.

We’ll discuss:
• The what, how, who, and why of selecting a container orchestration infrastructure.
• The relationship between Linux® and containers.
• Different options available to your organization if you want to move to Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Container orchestration myths—debunking some and demystifying others.

Experts speaking:
Andrew Clay Shafer, Vice President, Global Transformation Office, Red Hat
Dan Juengst, Sr. Principal Product Manager, Hybrid Cloud, Red Hat
Josh Berkus, Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat

CarMax, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, uses Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform to automate the infrastructure that supports critical applications. In this session, Christian Emery, Manager of Enterprise Systems at CarMax, will walk through CarMax’s journey to implement Ansible Automation Platform. We will explore how a do-it-yourself IT approach evolved into an efficient, standardized automation platform that helps the organization innovate. Christian will demonstrate how the people, processes, and technology changes CarMax made established a path to faster delivery, accelerated return on investment, and created a foundation for modern DevOps practices. See how CarMax started and scaled an automation project, along with the necessary process considerations that helped it succeed.

Operators simplify the deployment and management of complex, stateful applications on Kubernetes. One option for writing them is to have knowledge of the language Go and expertise with the internals of Kubernetes. But, there's an alternative to that with a significantly lower barrier to entry. The Operator SDK, one component of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Operator Framework, natively supports building Operators that can run Ansible Playbooks, making it easier for Operator development and integrating seamlessly with existing Ansible workflows and tooling.

Automating backbone capacity augments with Ansible Automation Platform has inspired more Cox network engineers to embrace automation and identify potential opportunities within their role to reduce human error, increase efficiency, and improve the quality of work.

You can gain complete insight into your network—no matter the size or complexity—using Ansible as the cornerstone of your automation. Replacing manual processes lets you manage device states and save time. In this session, you’ll hear about real-world applications getting started and scaling Ansible in both small and large environments.

Maintaining the software life cycle of your Windows environment can be time-consuming and unnecessarily complicated. Package management on Linux with apt and yum are much simpler by contrast. In this session, we’ll talk about how you can use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Chocolatey for Business to automate and greatly simplify the deployment and patching of software on your Windows endpoints.

Discover how Intel and Red Hat enable powerful SAP end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) environments from edge devices to artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Turn your data chaos into data value using best practices and methodologies including ML model training and inferencing, high-performance in-memory processing, and MLOps for container-based platforms. Learn how to create an intelligent platform to make the most of your SAP enterprise resource planning systems.

An overview of the IoT architecture from Intel and Red Hat for SAP AI/ML.
How to use Intel-optimized AI libraries.
Real IoT use-cases with Intel, Red Hat, and SAP.

Presenters:
Ted Jones, SAP Architect, Solutions Engineering, Red Hat
Brien Porter, Solutions Lead, Cloud, Enterprise, and Government Solution Group, Intel

Maintaining enterprise applications such as SAP often involves several diverse teams, and simplicity grows more important the more people it impacts. Such applications require configuration of many components, such as infrastructure, operating system, actual application, and any additional components. Each component is typically managed by a different team and in this type of setup the automation is often adopted in pockets, or isolated areas.

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform enables a staged approach to automation and allows for collaboration across the IT organization’s different teams. It simplifies the adoption of automation through its agentless, modular architecture.

As environments grow across hybrid cloud environments, analytical solutions are needed to stay ahead of critical security, compliance, and configuration tasks. With Red Hat Insights, customers can benefit from years of Red Hat expertise that is delivered when and where needed through this Software-as-a-Service solution.

Join this webinar in which we will cover:

The purposes of automating SAP, including improved reliability and performance of data and critical systems, a cost-effective, simplified infrastructure, and the ability to free up time to add more value.
Proactive identification and remediation of issues with security, compliance, performance, and stability.
A live demo, including an Ansible Tower SAP project walkthrough, automating SAP HANA® and SAP S/4HANA®, and remediating SAP HANA performance issues.

Is your SAP® system connected to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or a non-SAP application? Is it communicating with external systems? If so, you need to rebuild these integrations when moving to SAP S/4HANA.

Join this webinar to discover how an application programming interface (API)-led approach can help you:

Accelerate the development and testing phase.
Increase the flexibility of the conversion.
Reduce the impact on your users.
Empower the lines of business.

Presenters:
Manfred Bortenschlager, Business Development Manager, Agile Integration, EMEA, Red Hat
Pierluigi Scardazza, Sales Lead, Application Modernization and Migration, EMEA, Red Hat

Automation is critical to managing, changing, and adapting not only your SAP® infrastructure, but also the way your business operates through its processes. By simplifying change through automation, you gain time and energy to focus on innovation.

Join this webinar to learn how automation can reduce your installation time. We’ll cover how you can:

Help organizations to lower cost, enable innovation and increase productivity as part of their SAP modernization journey through end-to-end Automation.
Set up a new SAP HANA® server in about 15 minutes.
Patch your SAP infrastructure quickly and with security.
Reduce planned downtime to nearly zero.
Easily manage your hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Presenters:
Markus Koch, Solution Architect, Red Hat
Belkacem Moussouni, Business Development Lead, EMEA - Automation, Red Hat