Name: Network automation 101: Getting started with network automation
Start: 2023-03-24T18:49:00Z
End: 2023-03-24T18:49:53.000Z
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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.

As hybrid and multicloud environments become more widely used, platform engineering andITOps teams are looking for a balanced blend of development and operations features tosimplify cloud-native application development, support overburdened DevOps teams, andaccelerate value and IT delivery with a rich partner ecosystem. Red Hat recentlycommissioned Forrester to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, examining thepotential return on investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by engaging with Red Hat®OpenShift® cloud services on AWS and Microsoft Azure. In the study, Forrester uncovered anROI of 468%, a net present value (NPV) of US$4.08M, and a reduction in applicationdevelopment time of up to 70%.In this webinar, we’ll look at an abridged version of the Forrester TEI study and provide aframework to evaluate the financial impact of using Red Hat OpenShift cloud services,including benefits, costs, risk, and flexibility.

Expanding enterprise value with a multicloud application platform

As advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) rise, business leaders are now embracing open source culture and technologies. There are several reasons for this, including collaboration across organizations, accelerated innovation, and social responsibility. A software-maker culture inspires established companies to experiment with AI and create platforms that align with their business needs.
While AI/ML initiatives can deliver significant benefits, they are not without challenges and risks. Among the challenges are cost, lack of tools for machine learning operations, and lack of responsible AI tools. Downloading open source software may introduce the risk of lack of governance and security or lead to shadow IT and drive associated risks. When embraced appropriately with the right security and management layers, AI/ML can deliver effective business capabilities, including flexibility, agility, portability, and overall time to value.
In this webinar, Ritu Jyoti, Group Vice President, Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Research Practice, describes AI/ML adoption trends and challenges, how open source MLOps platforms may help, synergies with a hybrid cloud approach, and best practices and recommendations. Ritu will also briefly describe a couple of customer scenarios resulting from interviews that  IDC conducted with multiple Red Hat® customers

Why open source AI platforms help enterprise business transformation

Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) continues to power thousands of Red Hat customers' critical applications across a wide range of industries. As technology trends continue to evolve and new innovations from Red Hat and other open source communities are introduced, organizations are evaluating how they can fit these pieces together to modernize how they deliver value to their customers while maintaining business continuity and maximizing the value they're getting from their existing investments.

In this webinar session, you'll learn about several capabilities recently introduced in JBoss EAP 8, both for developer and operations teams, that are incredibly important to organizations looking to optimize existing investments, modernize their applications, and ultimately, generate new business and new opportunities.

We’ll also cover:

JBoss EAP’s integration with new innovations across the Red Hat portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift®
Adopting JBoss EAP solutions to fit your business's needs
Migration tooling, which allows you to quickly bring your workloads onto Red Hat OpenShift while safely connecting back to your existing data—wherever it lives.

Expand your possibilities: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Platform 8 and OpenShift

Two key concerns for most IT leaders are security and risk management. When considering the best automation solution for your team, thinking through the most high-impact and efficient ways to ensure security is key to having a successful automation strategy. This is where Red Hat® Ansible® Certified Content Collections, available only with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, come in.  

Ansible experts Emily Bock and Jamie Beck will walk you through how Red Hat platforms are tested and hardened for security, along with the benefits of a Red Hat subscription.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: The security-focused way to automate

"As multicloud becomes the norm in cloud-native modernization, organizations are turning to multicloud container platforms that allow them to deploy and run containerized applications. The prevalence of Kubernetes-based cloud-native offerings, customer demand for multicloud platforms to rationalize and optimize the use of IT infrastructure, and pressure to modernize applications are some factors we see driving this interest.

In this live interactive session, our guest speaker, Lee Sustar, Principal Analyst, Forrester, talks about the current multicloud container platform market challenges and the criteria and methodology of The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q4 2023. In addition, Chuck Dubuque, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Red Hat explores how Red Hat® OpenShift® sets the pace with its application platform capabilities, participation in the open source community, and market leadership."

Multicloud application platforms that drive innovation: Featuring Forrester

There are compelling business drivers behind migrating and managing workloads in the cloud, such as cost savings and scalability. But what happens when issues such as compliance, security, or just complexity mean you need to maintain other systems or applications in your datacenter?  
Using a hybrid environment offers maximum flexibility but comes with its own set of challenges, including drift or lack of visibility across these different environments. With automation, these challenges and more can be solved. Join Ansible® experts Tricia McConnell and Nuno Martins as they share the key use cases and considerations for running workloads in a modern hybrid environment.
Automation, Ansible, Network security, Network Automation, Network Architecture, Network Infrastructure, Automation Platform,  Automation, cloud automation

Using automation to simplify and standardize your hybrid infrastructure

As the complexity of modern infrastructure, applications, security, and hybrid cloud environments escalates, IT organizations need an IT automation strategy. Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is built to meet complex needs and accelerate business outcomes for nearly every enterprise automation use case. In this webinar series, we’ll cover:
The benefits of enterprise-grade automation for your organization.
How Event-Driven Ansible supports critical applications and workloads.
How automation can simplify and standardize your hybrid infrastructure.
A firsthand look at the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant experience.

Generative AI, the Ansible way

Organizations continue to face challenges associated with managing and optimizing their cloud environment on their journey to the cloud. They want to adapt operational approaches to their business requirements while supporting specialized teams for each major hyperscale provider or cloud technology they’re using. If this sounds familiar, solving these challenges requires implementing a common operations framework through automation.

Join Steven Richardson from Google Cloud and Hicham (he-sham) Mourad from Red Hat to learn how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform simplifies managing your cloud infrastructure, streamlining and operationalizing activities across Google Cloud and cloud-native services. Ansible Automation Platform can help you coordinate and manage cloud environments in a simple and effective way, reducing complexity and operational costs. 

We’ll also touch on how Ansible Automation Platform can increase speed and reduce errors as you automate the migration of environments to Google Cloud. Deploying Ansible Automation Platform on Google Cloud from the Google Cloud Marketplace simplifies this process and allows the scaling of your environment with extension nodes. Getting started with preintegrated Google Cloud cloud services and certified automation content takes minimal effort, and it counts toward your Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) agreements and makes procurement easy.

Migrating to Google Cloud with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Security is a critical component of every IT department and often one of the most complex. From endpoint access to intrusion detection there are multiple systems and processes that need to be managed and only so many resources. By leveraging common tools and processes security can be simplified to help your teams identify, investigate and remediate issues faster and more efficiently.

Listen to our panel discussion to learn:
- What does security automation look like?
- Where organizations are using automation to improve security detection and response
- How automation works with your existing environment to streamline processes
- Why an ecosystem is important in any security environment

Simplifying your security operation with automation

Applications are at the heart of modern enterprises and organizations must constantly evolve their application strategy to be successful in expanding their competitive differentiation. Their applications portfolio must be constantly infused with new generation applications that run in cloud environments, are delivered as microservices, use open source technologies, and are increasingly platform (infrastructure) independent. For applications to be scalable and highly available, they need an underlying database management system like Microsoft SQL Server and a versatile operating system (OS) environment such as Linux®—as an ideal platform for consolidating applications and their respective data management stacks.
 
Leaders focused on their IT business have a lot of concerns, but starting with a solid foundation is the right start for a sound infrastructure. IDC and Red Hat partner up in this session to discuss industry insights and information that will demonstrate why Linux is the adopted choice for hosting Microsoft SQL Server. Is your Microsoft SQL Server database running on an OS that allows you to modernize with a strong security presence? Join us as IDC and Red Hat take a more comprehensive look at the different values organizations see by running their Microsoft SQL Server database on Linux, specifically Red Hat® Enterprise Linux.

Enterprise application platform modernization with commercial Linux

Join us as we uncover the efficiencies and cost-savings achieved  from deploying Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® on Microsoft Azure, examined through the lens of Forrester's Total Economic Impact (TEI) framework. Red Hat and Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study to share the real, tangible return on investment (ROI) that customers have experienced since implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure.

Now it’s time to reveal the results.

In this session, we'll examine and discuss the transformative power of this strategic alliance, uncovering the substantial benefits and cost efficiencies that organizations can realize. From enhanced performance and scalability to streamlined operations and reduced total cost of ownership, our findings paint a vivid picture of the applicable advantages awaiting organizations that embrace this powerhouse partnership. Don't miss out on this opportunity. Join this webinar to gain a clear understanding of the potential ROI available via these technologies and how they can fuel your business growth.

Delivering 192% ROI with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure

Cyber attackers have become more innovative when targeting privileged accounts. Threat actors commonly target privileged endpoints such as Linux administrator accounts and once attackers gain access, they can traverse the network and take over workstations, servers and critical parts of the infrastructure.  Do you have the necessary tools in place to safeguard your critical assets and ensure the integrity of your cloud-based operations?
 

Join ESG, Red Hat, and CyberArk for an engaging discussion about endpoint privilege management.  Topics include:

 

·         Identity-related threats and controls against these threats

·         Securing Linux-based cloud instances and how to simplify the administration of security policies

·         A secure and easy way of connecting to and working on cloud machines with certified solutions from Red Hat and CyberArk

 

We explore best practices, real-world use cases, and actionable insights to help you secure your Linux deployments effectively. Listen and learn how the combined strengths of Red Hat and CyberArk can help you fortify your Linux infrastructure

 against evolving cyber threats, enhance operational efficiency, and achieve regulatory compliance.

Securing Linux deployments in the cloud

A major priority for modern organizations is running a homogeneous environment that provides a modern development space. Your organization should be combining the best of 
container orchestration with an ability to manage virtualized workloads—all under a single, synchronized platform. This webinar offers expert insights and real-world examples of architectures and decision points to help you in your journey to unify under 1 platform with Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization.

One platform for all of your container and virtualization needs

Join this technical webinar to get a hands-on overview of using Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® on Azure. 

During the live demos and discussions, Red Hat and Azure experts will cover topics such as Bring Your Own Subscription (Cloud Access) vs Marketplace, and Azure Hybrid Benefit. 

They’ll discuss how to use Cloud Access Gold Images and patch management with RHUI vs Satellite, as well as exciting new offers like Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Third Party Linux.

The session will show how Red Hat Insights, which comes with every Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, can help you reduce your management overhead on Azure.

Speakers:
James Read, EMEA Principal Solution Architect (Certified Cloud & Service Providers) at Red Hat
Karl Podesta, Senior Specialist – Linux on Azure at Microsoft

Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud with Azure

What if you could jump-start new automation projects with minimal effort and in less time? With Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, you can. It includes more than 150 certified and validated content collections designed to provide you with the automation assets you need (roles, modules, plug-ins, playbooks, and more) across a range of IT domains, including network, cloud, security, edge, and more. You can use this content to create new automation solutions for the multivendor technologies you’ve implemented across your network and edge.   

In this webinar, we’ll focus on network automation content and network-related security content, such as firewalls. This will help you understand what content is available to support your automation efforts, whether you’re new to network automation or already using this platform to manage your network. We’ll also talk about the benefits of Red Hat Certified Content and explain our new Ansible validated content.

Ansible Certified and Ansible validated content for networks

In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, modern enterprises must constantly adapt to stay ahead of the curve. Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform are two key technologies that enable organizations to achieve this agility. This webinar will delve into the importance of these platforms and showcase how the combined use of Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) and OpenShift are a formula for success.

In this webinar, our experts will demonstrate how OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform are better together. When integrated, they create a powerful solution that can transform businesses by leveraging the capabilities of Event-Driven Ansible (EDA). This enables organizations to respond rapidly to events and automate infrastructure and application management in real-time. This seamless integration optimizes resources, allowing teams to concentrate on innovation and higher-value tasks.

Attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of how to integrate Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform, the unique benefits, and practical examples of their combined use. Learn how to employ EDA with OpenShift to solve real-world problems and achieve more efficient, agile IT operations. Join us to discover the advantages your organization can gain from this potent combination of leading technologies.

Cloud automation: a recipe for success

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.

Network automation 101: Getting started with network automation

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