Name: Automation in a customer SAP journey towards S/4HANA and Public cloud
Start: 2022-05-25T18:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-25T18:31:43.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Bridging conventional and agile IT, Red Hat brings a portfolio of open, flexible, heterogeneous solutions that already power the world’s most successful, innovative companies. Open platforms, open management and open application development are the keys to funding the acceleration of game-changing digital strategies.

One of the strengths of cloud computing is that you don't have to think about common infrastructure issues like your operating system. But as your cloud environment grows, your infrastructure will become harder to manage, harder to maintain, and harder to evolve unless you start thinking about your infrastructure foundation—the operating system. Your choice in which Linux distro to use has implications beyond your immediate workloads and being able to incorporate "old-school" datacenter lessons into your cloud strategy is critical.

In this session, we'll cover:

- How organizations are really adopting cloud computing.
- Challenges with hybrid cloud environments.
- Considerations for your operating system in cloud environments.
- Best practices for both infrastructure and cloud strategy.

Why your operating system matters

Released in May 2022, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9 helps our customers innovate, optimize, protect, and trust their traditional and modern workloads across their datacenter, cloud, and edge environments. 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux remains an economic driver, with the overall Red Hat Enterprise Linux footprint forecast to touch more than $13 trillion of the global economy in 2022.

What's New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

We will focus on conversion and migration from CentOS 7 to RHEL 7, using Convert2RHEL, Red Hat Satellite, and Ansible Automation Platform. While this will be done on a few systems, it can be scaled up to any number of physical, virtual, or cloud hosts using content repositories provided by Satellite.

Open Demo: CentOS to RHEL Conversion

As various teams within organizations begin to embrace automation to help in their day-to-day lives, organizations are quickly realizing the importance of transparency and consistency in this practice. In this session, we’ll cover:

A highlight of the new features introduced in Red Hat Ansible® Automation® Platform 2.

How to take advantage of new Red Hat training curriculum to build and manage automation that scales.

Training for Ansible, specific for insurance organizations

This executive Q&A panel, moderated by Chad Coyes, Sales Specialist, Red Hat, covers a variety of security questions submitted by the audience. Panelists include Vincent Danen, VP, Product Security, Red Hat; Justin Long, Cloud Solutions Architect, Intel; Paul Armstrong, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat.

Security Panel Discussion with Red Hat & Intel

Decisions about cloud used to be pretty simple:  do we go cloud or stay on-prem?  But as insurance tech business units move more of their data and apps to the cloud, the decisions—and risks—they face have increased in scale and complexity. And those risks have moved well beyond concerns about security and now are more about how to manage the movement of data between clouds, standardized tools, and vendor lock-in.  

In this session, Forrester and Red Hat will provide:  

- The state of multi- and hybrid cloud  in insurance 
- What insurers say are their biggest cloud challenges 
- The decisions to make now that will reduce risks tomorrow.   

I promise to give you the means to go from commit to production with 100% no-human-hands. All while meeting visibility, security, compliance, and audit requirements without fail. Modern governance applies to standard line-of-business software, machine learning, edge, IoT, and any other software artifact. DevOps solved the developer and operators conflict. It forgot other essential folks of the delivery life cycle: Security, compliance, and audit. It's also missing the newest entrant, software supply chain management. 


We’ll talk about modern governance. Modern governance resolves governance toil with a software engineering approach. It’s no different than applying site reliability engineering (SRE) principles and practices to the dull, mundane, and toil-ridden governance processes.

Confusion To Clarity: What Insurance Business Technology Leaders Need To Know

A recent study conducted by ESG found that almost 9 out of 10 surveyed organisations would need to update their cybersecurity programmes for cloud-native applications and their use of public clouds, so as to gain consistency across hybrid clouds. As data and applications increasingly move to the cloud, many organisations are faced with the unique security and compliance challenge of putting new security investments into securing their hybrid environments that blend existing IT infrastructure and public cloud. In this context, decision makers across security, IT, application development and the boardroom need to rethink their approach to security. 

How will your organisation tackle the challenges associated with securing your hybrid cloud environment? Collaboration and agile ways of working are crucial for security to successfully keep pace with the velocity of continuous integration and continuous application delivery processes (CI/CD) and practice. In this context, defense-in-depth approaches need to be modernised, harnessing Zero Trust principles to deliver an integrated and layered security strategy made up of people, processes and technology.

In this Red Hat episode, ESG senior analyst Doug Cahill will be joined by Lucy Kerner (Director, Security Global Strategy and Evangelism) and Dan Juengst (Product Marketing Lead) to discuss the challenges involved in securing hybrid clouds and share their insights on how defense-in-depth approaches can be modernised to bolster security across the stack. 

Join Doug, Lucy and Dan as they explore:
- Understanding the composition of the modern datacenter
- Identifying hybrid cloud security challenges 
- Why developing a culture of collaboration is crucial in modernising your cybersecurity approach that bolsters your security posture across hybrid clouds. 
- Best practises on how to approach security in the context of hybrid cloud 
- And more

Defense-in-Depth Approaches for Securing Hybrid Clouds

Paul Armstrong, Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat, discusses how to deliver a secure platform and runs live demos.

Delivering a secure platform

In this session, we’ll look at how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform helps a major insurance company develop, test, and deliver services to market by dramatically reducing the provisioning process. A streamlined provisioning path can reduce the number of rogue applications and exceptions, improving security and compliance. 

As insurers look to implement an enterprise-wide, cloud-first business model, finding ways to standardize the migration process across disparate business areas is critical. Using a flexible and open automation solution provides the consistency needed while allowing teams to continue making decisions specific to their business.

Reduce complexity with IT automation for insurance organizations

Automation is the cornerstone of SAP modernization. With the SAP S/4HANA® 2027 migration deadline approaching, organizations should begin planning now to manage the complexity of its implementation while addressing the organizational mindset shift that also needs to occur.

Featuring:
Massimo Farrari, Consulting Product Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat  
Ricardo Garcia Cavero, Principal Portfolio Architect, Red Hat

How to simplify SAP S/4HANA management with automation

In this webinar, we’ll share findings from IDC on how Red Hat® Enterprise Linux provides financial benefits to customers by increasing revenue and lowering costs. We’ll also delve into our findings on open source software and Linux adoption in the enterprise.

Leave this session armed with the knowledge you'll need to inform your operating platform strategy wherever it needs to go. 

Key takeaways:

• The operating system remains the most important component when selecting a Linux provider for enterprise workloads
• Over half of net-new workloads deployed over the past two years were on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• 75% of study respondents expect to deploy more than half of their company’s Linux workloads in a public cloud environment within 3 years
• The migration to cloud environments is speeding up the deployment of virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances
• 95% of IT leaders say that enterprise open source is important to their organization’s overall enterprise infrastructure strategy     
• Businesses can expect a direct impact of roughly US$1.7 trillion in 2022 via increased revenues and lower costs by investing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• For every US$1 of revenue made by Red Hat in 2022, the ecosystem can make US$22, and you can be part of that ecosystem

Featuring:
Ashish Nadkarni, Group Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC
Gunnar Hellekson, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat

The power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: How it supports the global economy

In the opening keynote from Security Symposium Calgary, you’ll hear from Vincent Danen, VP, Product Security, Red Hat about trust in open source suppliers.

What is trust in open source suppliers?

Gerald Nunn, Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat presents container runtime and platform security. He also shares a live demo.

Container runtime and platform security

This Security Symposium session from Vincent Danen, VP, Product Security, Red Hat, focuses on vulnerability management.

An approach to vulnerability management

In the day to day life of an IT administrator, disaster can strike at any time. This is why for a successful disaster recovery, you need to have an easily implemented plan for bringing your systems back online. Integrating Ansible with your disaster recovery plan can help to streamline fail safe systems and secure your data, quickly transition with failover systems, and get back online quickly. 

From tsunamis to zero day security breaches, we’ll talk about how Ansible can provide the tools necessary for a successful turnover.

Tsunamis and Earthquakes: Automating Disaster Recovery with Ansible

In November 2021, Red Hat and Microsoft announced Red Hat Ansible Automation on Microsoft Azure. This offering delivers the same capabilities of Ansible Automation Platform 2.1, but also includes a differentiated experience for Azure customers that includes the ability to pay for Ansible through Azure billing and your Azure committed spend agreements, a fast deployment model to let you focus on automation over infrastructure operations, managed infrastructure with support from Red Hat as part of your subscription, and packaged content for Azure automation. 

This session will provide an overview of Ansible Automation Platform on Azure as a Managed Application and how the differentiated experience of this offering can be of value to your organization.

Value and convenience - Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure

The recent Q&A-style "Ask Me Anything about Red Hat Enterprise Linux" Red Hat User Group (RHUG) event uncovered a lot, to put it lightly. 

And, we're excited to share the on-demand recording for you to have as a valuable resource as you buildout your RHEL journey.

Featuring:
Matt Hicks, Executive Vice President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat Gunnar Hellekson, Vice President and GM, RHEL Business Unit, Red Hat
Julio Villareal Pelegrino, Distinguished Architect, Red Hat
Scott McBrien, Technical Contributor, Red Hat
Tony Harris, Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Susan Roper, Director, Product Marketing, Global, Red Hat

Ask Me Anything: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

While many organizations need to deliver software and services faster for their customers, they still need to maintain stability and their security posture. Red Hat subscriptions meet this need.

In this session, we'll:

- Discuss how enterprise-ready open source software allows you to focus on your core competencies and business goals rather than managing software.
- Provide an understanding of the business value of Red Hat subscriptions compared to unpaid alternatives.
- Learn tactical ways you can maximize your investment.

How Red Hat subscriptions help you focus on your business goals

This panel discussion includes three Red Hat partners from EMEA. Each one will give their view on the role of automation in the SAP world today and tomorrow.

Automation in a customer SAP journey towards S/4HANA and Public cloud

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