Name: Network Automation 101
Start: 2021-10-27T18:00:00Z
End: 2021-10-27T19:01:31.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.4

Discover how Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud delivers IT services on any infrastructure quickly and cost effectively with a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud infrastructure, application services, cloud-native application development, and automation solutions.

"Networks have already begun to adapt to meet the next generation of needs as digital transformation accelerates to include better connectivity across remote locations, programmability of campus and datacenter networks, and of course hybrid cloud modernizations.  As these transformations take place, networks become even more essential and increase in size and complexity.  Manual processes and operations will not be able to keep pace, and so companies are increasing their network automation efforts to respond faster to business needs, increase efficiency, reduce unexpected downtime, control costs and unburden valuable resources for more transformative work. 

But where do you start and what technologies can provide you the most flexibility? Join this session to learn how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can help to automate full network processes instead of just one sliver of network operations."

Network automation 101: Getting started with network automation

"Companies everywhere are implementing DevOps practices to bring fast innovation of software to market. Frequent pushes of small, microservice updates are in high demand. Federal agencies want in on the action too, and they bring their own sets of challenges.


When working within air gapped environments, security is of the utmost importance, so how do you make it work? Open source solutions don’t always seem like the first choice to turn to. Many of them demand constant Internet access for updates. With the right strategy in place, open source solution can often not only be an option, but the best option. In this session, Jay Hancock, DevOps Manager at Parsons Corporation, will discuss how he and his team have addressed some of the challenging requirements of the defense and intelligence
community. He will provide a detailed viewpoint into using open source technologies like kubernetes, containers, and more."

Delivering Innovation in Classified Environments

Software engineering has changed dramatically over the years with better collaborative development practices, migration from monoliths to microservices and more. But what about machine learning? How has machine learning based development evolved over the years? In this session, we'll discuss early ML setup and practices and how it's evolved into today's collaborative data science and streamlined ML deployment and MLOps best practices.

Building modern machine learning pipelines

"We’ll present a modernization journey from the source code to the container platform. In this session, you’ll learn how to succeed on this journey using best practices, saving time and risk with automation, and scaling across your organization.

You’ll learn:

The top 10 challenges and how to solve them.
How to accelerate your migration journey.
How to containerize your application in 10 minutes."

App Modernization with Red Hat Cloud Services

Developers tend to be very opinionated in their workflow processes. This poses a problem when an organization needs to standardize and even more of a problem when an organization needs to vet software for security. In this session, you’ll hear how Red Hat stays at the forefront of technology, provides the open source software that developers want to use, and unlocks a robust multicloud partner ecosystem that gives developers the freedom and flexibility to build applications that increase value for their organizations. Red Hat empowers developers with the best platform available for building applications in the cloud.

Empowering developers on their journey to the cloud

Technology breakthroughs can be challenging in the change-averse public sector environment. As stakeholders demand greater access and transparency from these groups, automation becomes a key tool to solve challenges and scale across teams. In this session, a panel of representatives from across the public sector will discuss their journey with automation, including how to get buy-in to start a project, measurement strategies, and how to expand that automation to other parts of the organization. The panel will explore the unique challenges defense, education, and utilities sectors have when implementing automation, and how those lessons can be applied to any challenge.

Automation in the public sector: where to start, and how to know it’s working

Networks have already begun to adapt to meet the next generation of needs as digital transformation accelerates to include better connectivity across remote locations, programmability of campus and datacenter networks, and of course hybrid cloud modernizations. As these transformations take place, networks become even more essential and increase in size and complexity. Manual processes and operations will not be able to keep pace, and so companies are increasing their network automation efforts to respond faster to business needs, increase efficiency, reduce unexpected downtime, control costs and unburden valuable resources for more transformative work. 

But where do you start and what technologies can provide you the most flexibility? Join this session to learn how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can help to automate full network processes instead of just one sliver of network operations.

In this webinar, you’ll discover: 

• How to identify the best project for your initial efforts and how to scale automated NetOps.
• The unique benefits of this automation platform and the basics of how it works.
• How to implement automated network workflows, in a demonstration—followed by Q&A.

Hybrid cloud environments add an additional layer of complexity to infrastructure, network, application, and user administration. IT teams need to manage both on-site and cloud-based environments, often using specialized management tools for each. Although these tools accomplish their intended tasks, they don’t provide a platform for automating tasks across hybrid environments or capability outside of their specific domain. As a result, it can be difficult to automate routine tasks or connect and scale hybrid cloud resources using these tools. Automation can unite hybrid cloud management under a single set of processes and policies to improve consistency, scalability, and speed.

Join this session to learn how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can simplify how you provision, configure, and manage cloud infrastructure, streamlining and operationalizing activities across multiple platforms and services.

In this webinar, you’ll explore:

The trends driving hybrid cloud automation
How Ansible Automation Platform can automate your hybrid cloud environment
A live demo and Q and A session

How to automate your hybrid cloud environment

A solid automation strategy can help you innovate faster, increase IT productivity and efficiency, and reduce costs. Getting started on the right path means learning about the technology itself and aligning your teams and culture to support your organization's business goals.

Join us for this introductory webinar to understand how matching the right automation tools with the right behaviors can help you deploy automation that delivers increased productivity and return on investment (ROI). You'll discover ways to extend your automation with insights from our field consultants and customers who have overcome common challenges.

During this webinar, you’ll learn:

How to make the case for automation

What you can do with automation and when it delivers the most tangible results

What's inside Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform

Best practices for getting started and scaling your IT automation

Beyond provisioning: A beginner's guide to automation

Get started and learn the benefits of automating public cloud environments with Ansible Automation Platform

Innovation and adaptability are critical for success in today’s digital world. To become more agile and responsive, many organizations adopt cloud technologies. But cloud environments also bring operational challenges. IT automation can help you maximize the value of your cloud investments to support digital initiatives and innovation.

During this session, you will learn how to efficiently automate your public cloud environments with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform. This webinar will focus on how Ansible Automation Platform can accelerate your cloud initiatives.

During this webinar, you’ll learn:

The benefits of automating your public cloud environments and top use cases
How to use Ansible Automation Platform to automate Day 2 cloud operations tasks
How to automate public cloud environments with Ansible and Terraform
How to deploy Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure and AWS

Learn the benefits of automating cloud environments with Ansible Automation

"As long as there is software, there will be patching. Now more than ever, security vulnerabilities left unpatched put agencies at significant risk. The Cost of a data breach report 2022 found that vulnerabilities in third-party software are some of the most costly breaches and are a common attack vector. Organizations that automate security incident response have a 74-day shorter recovery time. This is the largest, single cost-saving decision an agency can make to protect its systems and data. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a binding operational directive for federal civilian agencies that calls for a process (and actions) to remediate known exploited vulnerabilities within two weeks. Timelines could even be accelerated for vulnerabilities that pose a grave risk to the federal enterprise. Automation provides the ability to react at this speed and scale operations to busy IT teams. Vulnerabilities are not isolated to just an operating system, application, or device. They can come from any angle at any layer of the digital infrastructure, which requires a solution that helps IT teams work together. Additionally, the solution must be able to integrate with existing security response tools for streamlined and rapid response. Agencies that deploy an enterprise automation platform are better positioned to proactively secure their hybrid infrastructure, reducing response time and increasing compliance. Join this webinar to learn how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is the solution to meet modern cybersecurity challenges. In this webinar, we’ll cover: The risk of known exploits to the federal enterprise CISA-binding operational directive for remediating vulnerabilities
How an enterprise automation strategy provides a security response in less time
An overview of Ansible Automation Platform
Join us to find out about the substantial value automation provides when responding to the security incidents and compliance requirements."

End-to-end orchestrated patching for CISA compliance

"Applying AI to IT Operations(AIOps) is the thing of the hour. Most IT organizations generate a large amount of operations data in the process of operating their software and are beginning to embrace the adoption of AI to support IT operations. Yet, real-world operations data is rarely available as a public dataset. Moreover, most AIOps tools out there are closed source.

In this session, the speakers introduce AI4CI(AI for Continuous Integration), a set of open source AIOps tools involving open operations data from Kubernetes CI/CD platforms. They demonstrate a set of Jupyter Notebooks that are automated using Kubeflow Pipelines into reproducible workflows that collect data from open CI/CD data sources, calculate and visualize key performance indicator metrics, and build AI/ML services to support operations. They also introduce how to build and deploy ML services which can answer questions like “how can we optimize the running time of our tests and prevent bottlenecks in our CI/CD pipeline”, “how to an ML model to efficiently triage a new issue or a pull request”, and “how to preemptively detect patterns in failing tests or builds by looking at the logs”.

By making the tools and relevant data openly accessible, AI4CI aims to cultivate an open source community that fosters collaboration between data scientists and DevOps engineers. 
 
By the end of the talk, the audience will learn how to build AIOps monitoring tools and automated metric dashboards that can help provide more visibility into their tests to better support their CI/CD processes."

Using AIOps to Speed up CI/CD processes

CognitiveScale’s Cortex platform helps enable a robust AI Engineering discipline by seamlessly scaling AI applications across cloud platforms via RedHat’s OpenShift. The Cortex platform is embedded on OpenShift deployments providing trust and governance across all models and applications. Cortex brings multiple data models together, composes the AI solution, orchestrates execution, deploys it on any cloud, and optimizes the business impact. This allows for business and IT leaders to work together and leverage a platform that deploys repeatable patterns for AI solution success.

Scale AI applications across cloud platforms

Most companies have been working to modernize their applications.  And yet, when asked, "what do you view as the main driver of innovation at your company?" The response is nearly always that data is the primary driver of innovation. In this talk, we will look at what a data mesh is and how we can transition from a monolithic approach to data, to an approach which can become the data platform for our microservices as we modernize our application architectures.

The Data Mesh and why consider the architectural paradigm for your organization

It may come as no surprise that today’s enterprises are transitioning to running digital businesses. Spending may still be weighted toward transformation – but many firms are also focused on competitive and innovative technologies. Those innovative technologies and ideas are oriented around business goals – and companies are getting more creative in what that means. Join experts from Red Hat and IDC as they explore the new era of digital transformation, what challenges enterprises are encountering, and where the best potential for ROI exists.

The New Era of Digital Transformation

Sarah Thomas is a woman of many firsts – she was the first female official to ever work a major college football game, the first woman to officiate a bowl game, and the first to officiate in a Big Ten stadium. And as of February 7, 2021, she is the first female to officiate a Super Bowl. Now she’s sharing essential leadership lessons from her journey to the top of a male-dominated industry and vital insights on shattering the glass ceiling in the world of professional sports that can be applied to any field or industry. As an exemplar of what’s possible if you believe, Sarah brings audiences takeaways on breaking through in your own career, from staying focused under pressure and creating change to managing work-life balance and being the best you can be. See it, believe it, do it. Join us for the next Red Hat Coffee Hour to learn how you can apply Sarah’s lessons learned to create winning plays for transforming your people, processes, and technologies to achieve better business outcomes.

Red Hat Coffee Hour with Sarah Thomas

"Realizing when mechanical devices (e.g. pump data, manufacturing devices)  are having mechanical issues and are showing signs of failure (via sensors) are important items to know when you need to keep your mechanical devices running 24/7.  Therefore creating failure prediction algorithms and/or model(s) are essential parts of your mechanical equipment maintenance toolbox.  But how do you get started?  Is it hard to curate sensor data? How do you create, train and deploy failure prediction algorithms and models?  What kind of platform do you use for these items?
Failure prediction in real time on time series data (gathered by sensors) can be realized with the use of Open Source tools. We will deliver an overall view of how to start with the generation of new raw sensor data (typically captured by an Edge device), create a failure prediction model and end up with a real time graph that shows alerts warning that a failure is imminent for a mechanical device. 
But that’s not where the story ends.  We also need to address ‘security’.  From transferring and storing data to working with models, security is vital to working with sensors at the Edge.  Taking lessons learned from Cyber Security Crime we will discuss how Edge and IoT hardware can be easy to exploit.  We will then outline what security fundamentals are important to have in place along with common technology mitigations.  
Join us while we take you through creating data science applications on the edge and how we secure data, models and edge devices."

Dancing with Data Science and Security on the Edge

As digital transformation accelerates to include edge and IoT devices, networks have begun to adapt to be able to handle more processing outside of the datacenter, more mobile workforces, and of course, hybrid cloud modernizations. As these transformations take place, networks become even more essential and increase in size and complexity. Manual processes will not be able to keep pace, so companies are implementing network automation to respond faster to business needs, increase efficiency, control costs, and free up valuable resources for more transformative work.

But where do you start and what technologies can provide you the most flexibility? Join this session to learn how the Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can help to automate full network processes instead of just one sliver of network operations.

Featuring:
Zach Peterson, Senior Network Automation Consultant, Red Hat
John Best, Senior Consultant, Automation Practice, Red Hat
Sean Cavanaugh, Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

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