Name: SLED Nation | City & County of Denver Spotlight: Automation Excellence
Start: 2021-04-21T17:12:00Z
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Government agencies demand performance, transparency, and value—exactly what Red Hat and open source offer. Red Hat is the standard choice for Linux in governments worldwide. 

Our cloud, virtualization, app development, storage, platform and service-oriented solutions bring real freedom and collaboration to federal, state, local, and academic programs. And Red Hat’s worldwide support, training and consulting services bring the power of open source to your agency. 

We are a part of a larger community working together to drive innovation. Learn more at www.redhat.com/government.

Join us for this virtual event where we’ll demonstrate how Red Hat and Dynatrace can help you discover operational and security issues before they occur with automated root cause detection and remediation.

How to automate your IT operations with Red Hat and Dynatrace

It’s no secret: Government agencies have been met with a deluge of data. It’s a reality driving the replacement of antiquated, slow, and siloed systems with modern, fast, and interoperable ones designed to meet the need of future missions. To get there, the Intelligence Community (IC) is retooling its workforce, improving security controls, maximizing the use of open source data, leveraging emerging technologies, and approaching a more interoperable & partner-based future. In this Webcast, top IT leaders from the IC will explain why interoperability is essential to mission demands.

An interoperable future for the Intelligence Community

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 (RHEL)

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.

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 (RHEL)

Today, most public sector organizations have built their operations using legacy applications. In many cases, these applications are still critical, but not nearly as performant or cost-effective as they once were. As such, agency leaders are looking for ways to become faster and more agile so that they can continue to enable innovation, control costs, and provide new ways to consume information. 

How can agencies take advantage of the assets they have already developed over the years, and simultaneously take advantage of new open technologies? During this webcast, join public sector decision-makers to examine the importance of application modernization, discuss trends and best practices for a more unified modernization strategy to support a newly distributed workforce. 

Featuring:
Dorthy Aronson, National Science Foundation, CIO 
Mike Karas, Transportation Security Agency, Chief Enterprise Architect 
David Egts, Red Hat, Chief Technologist

Updating Legacy Applications in the Cloud

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

The adoption of cloud computing has been a major industry shift over the last decade. While most have started their cloud journey, there is still a lot of work to be done to modernize and take advantage of both the architecture and opportunity of public cloud computing. This session will focus on key considerations that affect all enterprises.

You’ll learn:
How to harness the innovation of cloud-native ecosystems.
Where your company can simplify to focus on more strategic and differentiated activities.
Examples from your peers in the industry.

Top 2 considerations for operating in the cloud

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.

Network automation 101: Getting started with network automation

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

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

Get started and learn the benefits of automating public cloud environments

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

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

As the global threat landscape evolves, leaders must adapt their cybersecurity practices to better protect valuable data and ensure mission success. The rise of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), which segments access and limits user permissions to specific applications and services, can help limit attackers’ lateral movement, reduce attack surfaces, and contain the impact of breaches. 

And with the United States Federal Government issuing an Executive Order to advance toward a zero trust architecture, agencies are implementing zero trust like never before.

Implementation, however, is not without its challenges. In this interactive three-part series, Red Hat and GovExec connect you with government and industry experts to provide strategic perspectives on making the right IT infrastructure choices to support zero trust - now and into the future.

Join us on Thursday, July 27, for the first installment of this series as we dive into automation and the crosscutting zero trust concerns, challenges and pain points it can address. We’ll discuss the benefits of leveraging automation, and how it can help scale zero trust policies, rules, and processes and ensure compliance. And, of course, we’ll talk about the hurdles to embracing automation — and how to cross them. So get your questions ready and register today for July 27, along with the subsequent webinars for August 28 and September 27!

Automation and Zero Trust for the Public Sector

About this webinar:
For many state and local agencies, providing citizen services quickly while embracing emerging technologies is difficult. Hear how City and County of Denver is a trailblazer in automation excellence, transforming their culture and technical infrastructure.

Presented by: 
Hailaeos Troy, City and County of Denver, Sr. DevOps Automation Architect, Kacie Kelly, Red Hat, Account Executive

SLED Nation | City & County of Denver Spotlight: Automation Excellence

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