Name: Using Ansible to automate SAP workloads on Public Cloud
Start: 2022-05-19T14:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-19T14:26:22.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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 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

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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

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

An argument since the early days of open source is .. what does "free" really mean? Open source represents free access and free participation, open communities, transparency, and innovation. But one thing is cannot be is "free" as in beer - because to make more secure, reliable, stable, and user-friendly software, there are certain activities that have to happen. There is a lot of effort that goes into making good software, especially critical foundational software like the operating system. 

This session covers: 

* The (conceptual) differences between community and enterprise software 
* How enterprise software can increase productivity, optimize resource utilization, and reduce lost time 
* What is included in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription 
* How to evaluate what you need from community or enterprise software for your specific needs

Start measuring value, free as in open, not free as in beer

Automation is the cornerstone of SAP modernization. With the imminent SAP S/4HANA® 2027 migration deadline, organizations need to start planning now to understand how to manage the complexity of an SAP S/4HANA implementation while addressing the organizational mindset shift that also needs to occur to deliver on the promise of digital transformation with SAP.

Automation can help you extend the benefits of SAP to create a foundation for further innovation, remove team barriers, reduce cost, and help your organization gain a competitive edge. Also, moving SAP workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can help you benefit from the rich capabilities of both platforms while ensuring simplicity and cost-effectiveness.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

• How Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform addresses the common challenges of SAP modernization, including Day 1 migration and Day 2 operations
• Expert advice for automating through the entire life cycle of SAP workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® High Availability Add-On
• Key performance metrics from customers taking advantage of Red Hat solutions for SAP workloads
• Ideas to scale automation beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SAP into networking, Google Cloud Platform, security, edge computing, and more

Power your SAP S/4HANA modernization with automation and Google Cloud Platform

This session will go over what the zero trust security model is and how it can be achieved with OpenShift ServiceMesh and remove the burden of addressing security requirements from your application development teams building microservices freeing them to focus on functions that provide direct value to customers. 

Attendees will learn about all the components of OpenShift Service Mesh, how to install and configure them for Zero trust security architecture.

Zero trust security with OpenShift Service Mesh

Learn about Martin and Chad’s collective experiences as customers and how this led to the work they are doing on the new Validated Pattern for Ansible Gitops as well as what a Red Hat Validated Pattern is. 

This session will also cover how Imperative and Declarative patterns are necessary for true gitops to happen which will be part of this latest pattern as it uses both Ansible and OpenShift to lifecycle manage applications on edge devices.

Featuring:
Chad Ferman, Senior Principal Product Manager - Technical, Red Hat 
Martin Jackson, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Validated Patterns, Edge, and Imperative vs Declarative Automation

This session provides an overview of Confidential Computing and it can be enabled in Red Hat® OpenShift®. with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Confidential computing protects data while in use, using a hardware and software stack based on a CPU root of trust, to isolate sensitive data and code. 

The session will highlight use cases such as secure enclaves and DevSecOps from partners like Fortanix, Anjuna, and HashiCorp.

Enabling Confidential Computing

Watch this recording of a security discussion including experts from Red Hat, Intel, CyberArk & Zettaset.

Featuring:

Maksim Yankovskiy, Chief Technology Officer, Zettaset
Raghu K. Moorthy, Global Director & CTO, Team Red Hat, Intel
Evan Litwak, Senior Director, DevSecOps Strategy, CyberArk

Security Panel Discussion with Red Hat, Intel, CyberArk & Zettaset

In this session, we cover a security overview, share a Red Hat Product Security risk report, and dive into Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and DevSecOps. Attendees will learn about varying solutions available to help secure their organizations.

Back to Security Basics

The frequency of security incidents and business disruptions is increasing every year. The resilient organization is better equipped to respond to these threats and maintain business continuity. Implementing an end-to-end IT automation strategy across your organization can significantly increase an organizations ability to be resilient in the face of security threats as well as reduce the severity of those attacks. While the need for holistic automation adoption is well established, according to a recent Harvard Business Review survey of more than 300 business leaders, only 13% of the respondents said that they are currently deploying IT automation at scale across their organization (1). 

Join this webinar to discuss: 
•  The role automation plays in responding to and mitigating risk events
•  How building a resilient organization can impact you bottom line and competitive advantage

Building a resilient organization with IT automation

This webinar will show how Red Hat, working with our partner ecosystem, has introduced solutions that help automate the configuration and deployment of your IT infrastructure. 

We will share specific technologies and customer stories that build on our industry-leading Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® operating system platform, helping reduce the cost of maintaining your infrastructure.

Featuring:
Randy Hildebrandt, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat 
and
Siddharth Nagar, Director of Product Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat

Scale your infrastructure to support your business

In this demo we will see how the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Ansible Automation provide a complete platform for SAP workloads that is highly automated, simplifying dramatically the management of the SAP hosts during their entire lifecycle. We will look at how Red Hat Satellite detects missing or outdated components in the servers and applies the right versions, also how Red Hat Insights with its SAP specific rules can detect potential issues before they happen and how these can be solved automatically with Ansible playbooks before a failure occurs.

How Red Hat Ansible Automation really works in relation to SAP

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

Automation with Red Hat Ansible delivers value on a number of key areas within an organization. Cost/efficiency, reduction of risk and the ability to monitor/manage the contribution automation provides. The cost element can be a hard one to get your hands around before actually implementing the solution. 

Red Hat has worked together with IDC to build an analysis of actual customers on the impact automation really brings. In this session we will illustrate some of the results and the numbers behind the very impressive calculation.

IDC case to calculate the value of Automation

Real examples are something which will tell much more than any long stories and description of technical details. Ben Lingwood from Lemongrass will be talking about a few customer cases where they are using Red Hat Ansible Automation to automate SAP workloads on Public Cloud.

Using Ansible to automate SAP workloads on Public Cloud

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