Red Hat / JBoss Presentations

Graham Gear – Performance Tuning of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Covers performance tuning, look at Application Platform specifics, and what's actually tunable, A look further down the stack into JVM and what tuning can be done there. Performance improvements and expectations are discussed, getting the most of of the hardware, understanding the requirements needed, and how to calculate them, via performance analysis.. Use of aspects, statistics, logging information is examined.

CV for Graham:

Graham Gear is a Solution Architect at Red Hat and brings a broad experience across the full suite of JBoss products. Graham began his career in defence software research, ultimately moving to commercial consultancies as a software engineer across telco, finance and insurance industries. Throughout his career, Graham continually found the innovation, ease of use and feature set required to solve the problems within the open source community, which built a belief and passion in the open source development model, which naturally lead him to Red Hat.

Boris Devouge - Introduction to Red Hat Network

Hands-on workshop to demonstrate the capabilities of RHN. This workshop covers the installation and configuration of a RHN Proxy, and explores the functionality of the management, service and monitoring module.

CV for Boris:

Boris Devouge, Senior Solution Architect atRed Hat UK has been using / deploying Linux ( since early 2.0 kernels, RH 5.2 and slackware 4.0 ) and Unix ( mainly FreeBSD and NetBSD, Irix, Solaris & HP-UX ). Boris was working for HP previously over a year in Linux support on Proliant servers. Before that he was freelance and supporting local business in France with implementation of open-source solutions ( mainly mail servers, security, VPN access ). Employed at Red Hat for 2 and 1/2 years, he is now leading the UK Solution Architect team.

Boris Devouge - Virtualization User Case

What is the need, how that need came about, and how RHEL can solve the industry's needs and pain points. Boris discusses the advantages, disadvantages and consequences of virtualization. The presentation clearly covers exactly what Red Hat has to offer in vitualization technology. An explanation of Para-vitualization is included.

Jan Wildeboer - Open source Virtualization: A Business Perspective

he position of REHL Virtualization in the industry. Some technical details are included, but mainly in order to give perspective to the deeper question of the technical differences between Red Hat's Virtualisation capabilities and other companies offerings within a business context.

CV for Jan:

Jan Wildeboer, SSO, EMEA Evangelist After his first introduction to the concept of Free and Open Source software during his computer sciences study in the 90s, Jan Wildeboer has followed the growth and influence of Open Source. After working assystem administrator and inhouse developer for hosting applications, he joined Red Hat as solution architect. Jan also took part in the discussions about software patents in europe and is still dedicating part of his work to ensure a level playing field for Open Source in an ever changing ICT world.