Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Katrin Meier, ISV Business Development Executive EMEA

With more than two million processors deployed in Web and cloud environments, AMD delivers the world’s first comprehensive cloud portfolio from microserver to massively parallel computing with the latest generation of processors that not only scale well for the cloud market, but do so with energy efficiency in mind. Explore how AMD silicon can help your private cloud to be more scalable, more efficient and more powerful as well as how AMDs own IT realized a highly utilized global private cloud.

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Max Mether, Partner Manager Services, SkySQL & Dreas van Donselaar, Chief Technology Officer, SpamExperts

MariaDB is an enhanced, backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement of the MySQL® database server. MariaDB is actively and independently developed from MySQL® by the original core developers of MySQL and other MariaDB community members. In addition to being a full drop in replacement of MySQL® (no need to recompile applictions or transform data), it has a lot of new features and performance enhancements.

In this presentation, Max Mether of SkySQL & Dreas van Donselaar of SpamExperts will discuss why MariaDB is the viable alternative for MySQL by giving an overview of the past/present/future of MariaDB as well as present a case study on why SpamExperts, a MySQL and now MariaDB user, moved 100s of MySQL server to MariaDB.SpamExperts are the market leader for email security in Europe’s IT hub, the Netherlands. The United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Belgium, South Africa, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile are other markets in which SpamExperts continues to experience double-digit growth figures.

SpamExperts are a trusted user of MariaDB and have worked with Monty Program, the creators of MariaDB for some time and are presenting today with SkySQL, experts in services and support for MariaDB & MySQL® products.

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Remco Groeneweg, Accenture Advanced Systems & Technology

Presentation covers a case history of a large data centre transformation program that Accenture ran for a major client in the financial services industry. Presentation describes how to build a case for a data centre transformation program and obtain buy-in from senior executives, how organize a data centre transformation program and how to deliver the program, building an IT infrastructure service catalogue based on Linux, and migrating business applications from Unix to Linux.

Ruud Stroet, Development Manager ICT, PLUS Retail

The Dutch supermarket chain PLUS Retail sells food products and uses four own and two outsourced distribution centres that are located throughout the Netherlands. The company is headquartered in ‘De Bilt’ and employs 3000 people. Together with the 15000 employees in the shops, a total of 18000 people work for PLUS Retail. PLUS Retail’s web application allows the entrepreneurs to assign applications to their employees, using role-based authorisation. This authorisation application has been used to allow the entrepreneurs to manage Zarafa’s e-mail platform.

The presentation outlines how Zarafa was integrated in the existing PLUS infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) environment and how management of the software can be deferred completely to the local entrepreneur.

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Sander de Jong, Pre-Sales Consultant Enterprise Services, HP

HP Serviceguard for Linux is high availability clustering software designed to protect applications and services from planned and unplanned downtime. Serviceguard for Linux ensures 24×7 application availability by packaging an application or service with its associated resources, and moving that package to other servers as needed. Serviceguard for Linux quickly responds to failures and also includes many out-of-the box features that ensure scalability and allow intricate control over cluster configurations.

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Marc van Ogtrop, Director Business Development, Finalist

For a nationwide distributor of leaflets Finalist realised a customer self service solution based on open source components and cloud technology. During this presentation we share several insights regarding the process, the tools, potential hazards and success factors.

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Ruud van Vliet, Chief Knowledge/Technology Officer (CKO/CTO), Profict

Decision trees are frequently used by organizations which have to make complex decisions or recommendations based on various criteria. Banks for example have to decide whether a customer is eligible for a loan. Insurance companies need to determine which product best suits their customer’s needs. In the public sector decisions have to be made about whether or not a person can get a public transport pass or if a permit will be given.  A decision tree can help make these complex decisions.
 
Albero is a new generation open source decision tree solution, that is very adaptable and can easily integrate with existing environments and websites. Join us for this session and learn more about Albero during a live-demonstration and experience how it can help your organization.

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Patrick van der Bleek, Solution Architect, Red Hat

During this session we’ll have a full blown RHEV 3.0 environment ready for you.
Our Solution Architects are available to answer all your questions. A unique possibility to see all new features of RHEV 3.0 in action, including a preview of the new HTML based administration portal.

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Eric D. Schabell, JBoss Solution Architect, Red Hat

Whether you’re a seasoned Java developer looking to start hacking on EE6 or you just wrote your first line of Ruby yesterday, the cloud is turning out to be the perfect environment for developing applications in just about any modern language or framework. There are plenty of clouds and platform-as-a-services to choose from, but where to start?

Join us for an action-packed hour of power where we’ll show you how to deploy an application written in the language of your choice – Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with the framework of your choice – EE6, CDI, Seam, Spring, Zend, Cake, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes. And without having to rewrite your app to get it to work the way the cloud provider thinks your app should work.

Check the command-line fu as we leverage Git to onboard apps onto OpenShift Express in seconds, while also making use of the web browser do the heavy-lifting of provisioning clusters, deploying, monitoring and auto-scaling apps in OpenShift Flex.

If you want to learn how the OpenShift PaaS and investing an hour of your time can change everything you thought you knew about developing applications in the cloud, this session is for you!

Patrick van der Bleek, Solution Architect, Red Hat

Looking for a high performance, scale-out NAS file system? Or are you a new user of GlusterFS and want to learn more? Join us for an introduction and review of the GlusterFS architecture and key functionalities. Learn how GlusterFS is deployed in the datacenter, in the cloud, or between the two.

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Eric D. Schabell, JBoss Solution Architect, Red HatJBoss jBPM continues its vision in this area by offering a lightweight process engine for executing business processes, combined with the necessary services and tooling to support business processes in their entire lifecycles. This allows not only developers but also business users to manage their business processes more efficiently.

A Business Process Management System (BPMS) offers you the capabilities to better manage and streamline your business processes.

A lot has happened in the BPM area over the last few years, with the introduction of the BPMN 2.0 standard, the increasing interest in more dynamic and adaptive processes, integration with business rules and event processing, case management, etcetera. In this session, we will show you how jBPM5 tackles these challenges, discuss migration to this new plaform and give you an overview of its most important features.

Eric D. Schabell, JBoss Solution Architect, Red Hat

Thomas Erl wrote the SOA Design Patterns book, and  Eric D. Schabell will show how you can use JBoss tooling and products to implement them. In this session we will cover the following tools:

Testable architectures with SAVARA
  - BPEL with Riftsaw
  - JBoss Developer Studio

The session will show how different SOA Design Patterns can be implemented using the these tools.

Claire Rolland, Director EMEA Storage and Availability Management Practice, Symantec

Explore how to cut through the “noise” around Cloud and move towards an open, flexible Private Cloud Architecture using the assets you already own.

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Bert Deferme, Consultant, Open-Future
 
The KMI (Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut of Belgium) was looking for a virtualization solution to virtualize and consolidate a large part of their production environment.
 
After some consideration and the comparison of several virtualization solutions KMI was (with help from Open-Future) the first party in Belgium to implement the RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation) solution in their environment.
 
This customer case will tell you more about:
 
* Why KVM(Kernel-based virtual Machine)?
* Why RHEV?
* An overview of the role of RHEV in KMI’s environment.
* An overview of RHEV.

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Sander de Jong, Pre-Sales Consultant Enterprise Servers, HP

The last couple of years showed an enormous increase in the deployment of Open Source Applications in the Enterprise market. From an infrastructure perspective however, the suppliers were not able to keep track of this trend in offering appropriate solutions. In this presentation HP will present the newest developments around Infrastructure that make it possible to use Open Source in Mission Critical environments.

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Hermes De Backere, Senior Account Manager & Tim Peeters, JAVA Consultant, Xplore Group

In this session, Hermes de Backere and Tim Peeters will discuss the migration from IBM WebSphere Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. We will have a quick look at the architecture and the products used, including mod_cluster and JBoss Operations Network.

We will zoom in on a specific requirement from the client to be able to do automated deployments on the new JBoss infrastructure. In today’s landscape, releases are delivered on a frequent, regular basis. We left behind manual and semi-scripted deployments to integrate the customers’ continuous integration environment, Maven repository manager and Subversion repository. We will show you how you can lower operating costs and decrease the number of deployment errors drastically by eliminating inefficiencies in the deployment process.

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Ossi Karjalainen, Head of Sales Engineering (EMEA), EnterpriseDB

Today, more than ever, enterprises are enabling applications to be deployed on public and private cloud infrastructure. To date, there have been no PostgreSQL DaaS options available that have the features, functionality and support that are required for enterprise environment. Postgres Plus Cloud Server meets these demanding requirements while also offering a simple way of moving applications written to run on Oracle to the cloud at a fraction of the cost of Oracle license prices.

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Patrick Deenen, Principal Consultant / Software Architect, CIBER Nederland

Travelcard is a major player in The Netherlands regarding fuel cards. They provide innovative products, effective tooling to safe costs, insights into filling up behavior, self-services and more.

They have done mayor investments in their IT landscape over the past 20 years, which is vast, complex, outdated, but proven and reliable. In the last few years they were facing several challenges. As a result they decided to replace the complete IT landscape with the latest (OS) products and the innovative products & services of CIBER & Red Hat.

This presentation will talk about the choices they have made to face these challenges, the high level reference architecture, used products and project approach.

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Bas Peters, Senior Consultant, Incentro

Most companies use multiple systems to manage content including documents and files. This is partly due to the fact that IT projects are executed on a departmental level rather than an enterprise level. At the same time a lot of the information captured in these content items needs to be available throughout the organization or even outside the organization. This often results in multiple copies stored in different locations and systems. CMIS is an XML based open standard designed to break down these so called content silo’s. Bas Peters will discuss the goals of this open standard, how it uses XML standards to support common data formats and why CMIS has a bigger chance to succeed as an interoperability standard compared to earlier attempts.

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Tomas Nyström, Senior Director, Accenture

This session will detail a number of large custom core system development projects that together create an end-to-end system landscape for executing complex (legislative) business logic, related case management and customer service scenarios. Key open source technologies include Red Hat Linux and Red Hat JBoss EAP. The development of these systems started in 2008 and the go-live is in Q1 2012. During this session Tomas Nyström will also do a deep-dive into specific architecture patterns (stateless service layers and stateless business processes) to showcase some of the more detailed solution aspects.

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Jan Aertsen, EMEA Engagement Manager, Pentaho

With 203 government stakeholders, CIPAL in Belgium is the only public ICT provider in the region, owned and controlled by local and provincial governments. This case study presentation looks at how Pentaho BI Enterprise Edition was used to embed into CIPAL’s Athena BI product, after Belgium announced both new budgetary compliance rules and public sector budget cuts.

This customer case will tell you more about:

• Keeping IT costs to a minimum, to ensure that the Flemish taxpayers, who ultimately fund the system, get the best value for their money.
• Pentaho’s metadata is used extensively to make sure row-level security is correctly applied across the different users at each location. Cipal hosts Pentaho BI on a cluster of virtual machines such as Red Hat Linux.
• Analyzing a wide range of data sets including service requests by local residents, civilian affairs, culture, nursing homes and spatial planning.
• How CIPAL achieved a highly competitive total cost of ownership (TCO) that is a fraction of traditional, proprietary alternatives.
• How implementation was completed and rolled out within budget to four social welfare associations in just four months.
• How HR managers are now empowered to create, customize and analyze their own reports on their own time without reliance on IT.

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Tom Schuster, Vice President and General Manager, SugarCRM Europe

Much is spoken about the need for social tools in business, but what does one actually do about it? Tom Schuster, Vice President and General Manager of SugarCRM Europe will give practical advice about what to do today to prepare properly in order to embark on the journey to being a social business. He will also look into the future with a vision of what is to come.

During the presentation he will cover:

• The business context
• The essential characteristics
• Getting started
• A live example
• Recommendation

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Davy Nys, Vice President, EMEA & APAC, Pentaho

This presentation will give you more insight in:

• Why you need to care about Big Data Solutions.
• How early adopters are building out their Hadoop platforms to bring real value to their end-customers.

Working with Big Data is much, much more than just Hadoop. To make it quick and easy to analyze Big Data, most early Hadoop adopters are turning to some kind of analytic database, such as Greenplum, Vertica or Teradata¹s Aster Data, to provide the low latency data access. Once the data is prepped and in the right storage engine, requirements to provide visualization and analytics across multiple dimensions of your Big Data can work the same as traditional business intelligence.

This presentation will also examine why data integration is one of the biggest challenges to a successful Hadoop initiative, with Enterprise deployment examples and best practices. You will learn how best to deploy business intelligence tools to perform multi-dimensional analytics and visualization. And also how to conduct hybrid data analysis between Hadoop and data from traditional relational data stores.

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Arjan Heijmenberg, EMEA Partner Manager, Jaspersoft

By mid-2011, over 50% of companies will most likely use some form of mobile BI. Most of these deployments will allow users to view reports and perform lightweight analysis via “small, portable dashboards”. Many will use alerting or notifications. In short, the Mobile BI era has arrived. It is quickly becoming a must-have for many business intelligence initiatives, especially where there’s a need to disseminate critical, real-time business information to large numbers of people. Many companies will augment (or abandon) their current BI vendors in the pressure to support Mobile BI, chiefly because their current platforms are inadequate. Jaspersoft is supporting BI Builders worldwide as they race to cope with the explosion in the demand for mobile browser-based reports and dashboards, interactivity, business rule-driven alerts and notifications, purpose-designed security infrastructures and custom BI apps for specific devices.

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