LINFORGE provides concise summaries in 3 sentences or less that provide the high level and essential information from the document. The document is a presentation about LINFORGE that provides an overview of the company, its services, certifications, partnerships, and customer case studies. It discusses LINFORGE's history and growth since 2001, its open source expertise and certifications, and examples of how it has helped customers through solutions involving virtualization, storage, monitoring, and other areas.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The web performance leaderJoanne El Chah
This reports illustrates how Red Hat Enterprise Linux beats Microsoft Windows as the best platform for enterprise web applications. Superior performance, coupled with significant cost savings derived from the ability to leverage the latest multicore x86 hardware as well as virtualization, adds up to competitive advantage.
Dror Goldenberg from Mellanox presented this deck at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference.
“High performance computing has begun scaling beyond Petaflop performance towards the Exaflop mark. One of the major concerns throughout the development toward such performance capability is scalability – at the component level, system level, middleware and the application level. A Co-Design approach between the development of the software libraries and the underlying hardware can help to overcome those scalability issues and to enable a more efficient design approach towards the Exascale goal.”
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-f7s
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This document provides an overview of Revera's SPARC as a Service offering provided in partnership with Eagle Technologies. It introduces the presenters and gives details on Revera's data center infrastructure, their focus on innovation, and the goals and technical design of the SPARCaaS service. The service provides virtualized SPARC infrastructure with high availability and security across Revera's data centers, giving clients flexibility and performance. It also outlines the two service options, security measures, and management approach.
The document discusses Dell EMC's Ready Solutions portfolio which includes tested and validated solutions for various workloads and use cases. It highlights several Ready Solutions that are optimized for Red Hat technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenStack, OpenShift, and Ansible. These solutions provide benefits like reduced management costs, improved performance, and integration between VMware and cloud platforms. The document also provides examples of compelling business opportunities for areas like virtualization, containers, data analytics, business applications, and telco cloud.
NetApp FlexPod Converged Infrastructure solution - Summer 2013 releases. New Designs and non-disruptive operations for mid-sized business, enterprises and now Big Data applications. Presentation includes news on expanded FlexPod family, latest validated designs, recent awards and a new iPad app.
NetApp FlexPod continues its Converged Infrastructure leadership with new validated designs and program enhancements -- here's the latest FlexPod news as of Winter 2013/14.
Comparing the TCO of HP NonStop with Oracle RACThomas Burg
HP NonStop is often (wrongly!) perceived as "expensive", specifically compared with the combination of "vanilla X86 hardware" and the Oracle RAC DB offering.
This presentation talks about an in-depth analysis HP did to compare the two offerings fair and square. You might be surprised at the results ...
This document discusses networking concepts in HP Helion, including SDN and NFV. It aims to leverage standard virtualization technology to consolidate network equipment onto industry standard servers. SDN decouples the control plane and data plane, logically centralizing network intelligence. The document also discusses how SDN and NFV can work together but are not dependent on each other, and provides examples of SDN implementations including hybrid modes and HP Helion's use of SDN.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The web performance leaderJoanne El Chah
This reports illustrates how Red Hat Enterprise Linux beats Microsoft Windows as the best platform for enterprise web applications. Superior performance, coupled with significant cost savings derived from the ability to leverage the latest multicore x86 hardware as well as virtualization, adds up to competitive advantage.
Dror Goldenberg from Mellanox presented this deck at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference.
“High performance computing has begun scaling beyond Petaflop performance towards the Exaflop mark. One of the major concerns throughout the development toward such performance capability is scalability – at the component level, system level, middleware and the application level. A Co-Design approach between the development of the software libraries and the underlying hardware can help to overcome those scalability issues and to enable a more efficient design approach towards the Exascale goal.”
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-f7s
See more talks in the Swiss Conference Video Gallery:
http://insidehpc.com/2016-swiss-hpc-conference/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter:
http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
This document provides an overview of Revera's SPARC as a Service offering provided in partnership with Eagle Technologies. It introduces the presenters and gives details on Revera's data center infrastructure, their focus on innovation, and the goals and technical design of the SPARCaaS service. The service provides virtualized SPARC infrastructure with high availability and security across Revera's data centers, giving clients flexibility and performance. It also outlines the two service options, security measures, and management approach.
The document discusses Dell EMC's Ready Solutions portfolio which includes tested and validated solutions for various workloads and use cases. It highlights several Ready Solutions that are optimized for Red Hat technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenStack, OpenShift, and Ansible. These solutions provide benefits like reduced management costs, improved performance, and integration between VMware and cloud platforms. The document also provides examples of compelling business opportunities for areas like virtualization, containers, data analytics, business applications, and telco cloud.
NetApp FlexPod Converged Infrastructure solution - Summer 2013 releases. New Designs and non-disruptive operations for mid-sized business, enterprises and now Big Data applications. Presentation includes news on expanded FlexPod family, latest validated designs, recent awards and a new iPad app.
NetApp FlexPod continues its Converged Infrastructure leadership with new validated designs and program enhancements -- here's the latest FlexPod news as of Winter 2013/14.
Comparing the TCO of HP NonStop with Oracle RACThomas Burg
HP NonStop is often (wrongly!) perceived as "expensive", specifically compared with the combination of "vanilla X86 hardware" and the Oracle RAC DB offering.
This presentation talks about an in-depth analysis HP did to compare the two offerings fair and square. You might be surprised at the results ...
This document discusses networking concepts in HP Helion, including SDN and NFV. It aims to leverage standard virtualization technology to consolidate network equipment onto industry standard servers. SDN decouples the control plane and data plane, logically centralizing network intelligence. The document also discusses how SDN and NFV can work together but are not dependent on each other, and provides examples of SDN implementations including hybrid modes and HP Helion's use of SDN.
This document discusses HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 and HP's leadership in OpenStack. It provides an overview of HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0's enhanced features, simplified two-step installation process, and integrated management console called Ops Console. It also discusses HP's leadership position in OpenStack, being ranked #1 in code contributions for the Kilo and Liberty releases.
This document summarizes Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise servers for mission-critical applications. It highlights key capabilities such as scalability, high availability, virtualization, and investment protection. Performance benchmarks are presented showing world records achieved running Oracle software on SPARC servers compared to other vendors. Consolidation capabilities and cost savings through virtualization are also discussed.
Red Hat is an open source software company that provides Linux operating systems, middleware, storage, and cloud computing solutions. Some key facts:
- Red Hat is the #1 provider of open source solutions, with over 90% of Fortune 500 companies using their products.
- They have over 7,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue of over $1 billion.
- Their solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss middleware, OpenShift PaaS, and CloudForms management tools.
Radisys' CTO, Andrew Alleman, was one of the featured speakers at the OCP Telco Engineering Workshop during the 2017 Big Communications Event. Andrew discussed carrier-grade open rack architecture (CG-OpenRack-19), the future of open hardware standards and commercial products in the OCP pipeline during his presentation.
This document provides an overview of HP Helion OpenStack, HP's distribution of the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform. It discusses the architecture and components of HP Helion OpenStack, including its use of KVM hypervisor, libvirt API, and support for multiple guest operating systems. It also describes the benefits of using OpenStack such as portability across private and public clouds and support from a large developer community.
Beyond Basic VoLTE Services: Avoiding 3 Mistakes of the PastRadisys Corporation
Presentation given by Radisys' Grant Henderson, VP, Marketing & Product Management, MediaEngine Marketing, at the LTE Voice Summit 2016 in London:
The era of truly open solutions, both hardware and software is upon us. Check out this presentation to learn how to avoid the 3 mistakes of the past when virtualizing data plane elements.
FlexPod delivers new integrated infrastructure validated designs with NetApp All-Flash and Cisco ACI that deliver new levels of performance and the ability to meet business objectives
HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 consigue un récord mundial general para servidores de ...RaGaZoMe
HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 consigue un récord mundial general para servidores de dos procesadores en la prueba comparativa de aplicación estándar de dos niveles SAP Sales and Distribution (SD)
Cisco and NetApp announced enhancements to the FlexPod solution including new Cisco platforms like the UCS Mini server and Nexus 9000 series switch. They highlighted over 5,000 customers using FlexPod across 100 countries. New validated designs were announced integrating these platforms along with recent VMware and Microsoft updates. Options for pre-integrated FlexPods shipped within a single rack were also noted.
This document discusses HP desktop virtualization reference architectures. It begins by introducing HP Virtual Connect technology and the StorageWorks P4000 SAN for desktop virtualization. It then presents a reference architecture for HP desktop virtualization built upon the StorageWorks P4800 SAN. The architecture is capable of accommodating up to 1,600 productivity users using VMware View, Hyper-V, or Citrix XenDesktop with HP BladeSystems, Flex-10 networking, SAN/iQ storage software, and Insight Control management.
The document discusses OpenPOWER, an open ecosystem using the POWER architecture to share expertise, investment, and intellectual property. It outlines the goals of the OpenPOWER Foundation to serve evolving customer needs through collaborative innovation and solutions. Examples are provided of innovations developed through partnerships, such as accelerated databases, optimized flash storage, and high performance computing systems. The benefits of the OpenPOWER approach for customers are affirmed through adoption of Linux distributions and cloud deployments.
High Performance Interconnects: Landscape, Assessments & Rankingsinside-BigData.com
“Dan Olds will present recent research into the history of High Performance Interconnects (HPI), the current state of the HPI market, where HPIs are going in the future, and how customers should evaluate HPI options today. This will be a highly informative and interactive session.”
Watch the video: http://insidehpc.com/2017/04/high-performance-interconnects-assessments-rankings-landscape/
Learn more: http://orionx.net
Sign up for our insidehpc.com/newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
This document summarizes a presentation about CA arcserve's Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution. The presentation discusses the growing challenges of data protection and how current solutions are falling short. It then outlines how the UDP solution provides a unified platform that reduces complexity and costs while improving reliability, flexibility, and recovery capabilities. Key features highlighted include global deduplication, agentless backup, virtual standby, and assured recovery reporting.
Regarding Clouds, Mainframes, and Desktops … and LinuxRobert Sutor
In this talk, I'll focus on three areas of great opportunity as well as challenge for Linux: the accelerating market for cloud computing, Linux as a significant operating system for mainframes, and the hope for Linux on the desktop.
HP Helion OpenStack Community Edition DeploymentMarton Kiss
HP Helion OpenStack CE is an OpenStack distribution packaged by HP based on open source components. It provides infrastructure as a service, including VM management, networking, storage, and monitoring. This document outlines deploying it in virtual mode on a single physical server, which creates VMs for the undercloud and overcloud using KVM. The deployment takes around 65 minutes and provides a dashboard and monitoring interfaces for managing the private cloud infrastructure.
This document discusses pricing, support, and licensing for CA's Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) product. It begins with an agenda and background on industry challenges with backup costs and complexity. The bulk of the document then focuses on how UDP simplifies pricing and licensing with fewer SKUs and options. It also discusses UDP's competitive pricing compared to other backup vendors and how support is made simple through various online resources and tracking of customer satisfaction and issue resolution times.
HP Helion OpenStack and Professional ServicesMatthew Farina
This document discusses cloud computing and OpenStack. It provides an overview of cloud concepts like infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). It then details OpenStack, describing it as an open source cloud operating system that controls compute, storage, and networking resources. The presentation covers OpenStack architecture, components, deployments, releases, and distributions. It also discusses HP's Helion portfolio and how it aligns with OpenStack and cloud standards.
OpenPOWER update for Linux on Power revolution eventMandie Quartly
The OpenPOWER Foundation a disruptive industry led, community driven ecosystem based on the opening of the POWER architecture which is driving innovation and challenging intel's hold on the datacentre. Focusing through the stack from hardware to software, to implementation and research.
Understand what the OpenPOWER Foundation is and what's the latest news.
comForte CSL: a messaging middleware framework for HP NonStopThomas Burg
The comForte CSL product is a flexible and powerful messaging middleware framework for the HP NonStop platform. This presentation describes the product on several levels:
(1) Elevator pitch (Why/How/What?)
(2) Technical Use Cases (Geeky!)
(3) Business Cases
(4) How to modernize a legacy COBOL application
(5) Competing products
In case you missed our Red Hat Essentials Training at our offices find attached the slides that were presented. Designed to be the \'helicopter\' view of Red Hat and Open Source and the market opportunity.
This document discusses HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 and HP's leadership in OpenStack. It provides an overview of HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0's enhanced features, simplified two-step installation process, and integrated management console called Ops Console. It also discusses HP's leadership position in OpenStack, being ranked #1 in code contributions for the Kilo and Liberty releases.
This document summarizes Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise servers for mission-critical applications. It highlights key capabilities such as scalability, high availability, virtualization, and investment protection. Performance benchmarks are presented showing world records achieved running Oracle software on SPARC servers compared to other vendors. Consolidation capabilities and cost savings through virtualization are also discussed.
Red Hat is an open source software company that provides Linux operating systems, middleware, storage, and cloud computing solutions. Some key facts:
- Red Hat is the #1 provider of open source solutions, with over 90% of Fortune 500 companies using their products.
- They have over 7,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue of over $1 billion.
- Their solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss middleware, OpenShift PaaS, and CloudForms management tools.
Radisys' CTO, Andrew Alleman, was one of the featured speakers at the OCP Telco Engineering Workshop during the 2017 Big Communications Event. Andrew discussed carrier-grade open rack architecture (CG-OpenRack-19), the future of open hardware standards and commercial products in the OCP pipeline during his presentation.
This document provides an overview of HP Helion OpenStack, HP's distribution of the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform. It discusses the architecture and components of HP Helion OpenStack, including its use of KVM hypervisor, libvirt API, and support for multiple guest operating systems. It also describes the benefits of using OpenStack such as portability across private and public clouds and support from a large developer community.
Beyond Basic VoLTE Services: Avoiding 3 Mistakes of the PastRadisys Corporation
Presentation given by Radisys' Grant Henderson, VP, Marketing & Product Management, MediaEngine Marketing, at the LTE Voice Summit 2016 in London:
The era of truly open solutions, both hardware and software is upon us. Check out this presentation to learn how to avoid the 3 mistakes of the past when virtualizing data plane elements.
FlexPod delivers new integrated infrastructure validated designs with NetApp All-Flash and Cisco ACI that deliver new levels of performance and the ability to meet business objectives
HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 consigue un récord mundial general para servidores de ...RaGaZoMe
HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 consigue un récord mundial general para servidores de dos procesadores en la prueba comparativa de aplicación estándar de dos niveles SAP Sales and Distribution (SD)
Cisco and NetApp announced enhancements to the FlexPod solution including new Cisco platforms like the UCS Mini server and Nexus 9000 series switch. They highlighted over 5,000 customers using FlexPod across 100 countries. New validated designs were announced integrating these platforms along with recent VMware and Microsoft updates. Options for pre-integrated FlexPods shipped within a single rack were also noted.
This document discusses HP desktop virtualization reference architectures. It begins by introducing HP Virtual Connect technology and the StorageWorks P4000 SAN for desktop virtualization. It then presents a reference architecture for HP desktop virtualization built upon the StorageWorks P4800 SAN. The architecture is capable of accommodating up to 1,600 productivity users using VMware View, Hyper-V, or Citrix XenDesktop with HP BladeSystems, Flex-10 networking, SAN/iQ storage software, and Insight Control management.
The document discusses OpenPOWER, an open ecosystem using the POWER architecture to share expertise, investment, and intellectual property. It outlines the goals of the OpenPOWER Foundation to serve evolving customer needs through collaborative innovation and solutions. Examples are provided of innovations developed through partnerships, such as accelerated databases, optimized flash storage, and high performance computing systems. The benefits of the OpenPOWER approach for customers are affirmed through adoption of Linux distributions and cloud deployments.
High Performance Interconnects: Landscape, Assessments & Rankingsinside-BigData.com
“Dan Olds will present recent research into the history of High Performance Interconnects (HPI), the current state of the HPI market, where HPIs are going in the future, and how customers should evaluate HPI options today. This will be a highly informative and interactive session.”
Watch the video: http://insidehpc.com/2017/04/high-performance-interconnects-assessments-rankings-landscape/
Learn more: http://orionx.net
Sign up for our insidehpc.com/newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
This document summarizes a presentation about CA arcserve's Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution. The presentation discusses the growing challenges of data protection and how current solutions are falling short. It then outlines how the UDP solution provides a unified platform that reduces complexity and costs while improving reliability, flexibility, and recovery capabilities. Key features highlighted include global deduplication, agentless backup, virtual standby, and assured recovery reporting.
Regarding Clouds, Mainframes, and Desktops … and LinuxRobert Sutor
In this talk, I'll focus on three areas of great opportunity as well as challenge for Linux: the accelerating market for cloud computing, Linux as a significant operating system for mainframes, and the hope for Linux on the desktop.
HP Helion OpenStack Community Edition DeploymentMarton Kiss
HP Helion OpenStack CE is an OpenStack distribution packaged by HP based on open source components. It provides infrastructure as a service, including VM management, networking, storage, and monitoring. This document outlines deploying it in virtual mode on a single physical server, which creates VMs for the undercloud and overcloud using KVM. The deployment takes around 65 minutes and provides a dashboard and monitoring interfaces for managing the private cloud infrastructure.
This document discusses pricing, support, and licensing for CA's Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) product. It begins with an agenda and background on industry challenges with backup costs and complexity. The bulk of the document then focuses on how UDP simplifies pricing and licensing with fewer SKUs and options. It also discusses UDP's competitive pricing compared to other backup vendors and how support is made simple through various online resources and tracking of customer satisfaction and issue resolution times.
HP Helion OpenStack and Professional ServicesMatthew Farina
This document discusses cloud computing and OpenStack. It provides an overview of cloud concepts like infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). It then details OpenStack, describing it as an open source cloud operating system that controls compute, storage, and networking resources. The presentation covers OpenStack architecture, components, deployments, releases, and distributions. It also discusses HP's Helion portfolio and how it aligns with OpenStack and cloud standards.
OpenPOWER update for Linux on Power revolution eventMandie Quartly
The OpenPOWER Foundation a disruptive industry led, community driven ecosystem based on the opening of the POWER architecture which is driving innovation and challenging intel's hold on the datacentre. Focusing through the stack from hardware to software, to implementation and research.
Understand what the OpenPOWER Foundation is and what's the latest news.
comForte CSL: a messaging middleware framework for HP NonStopThomas Burg
The comForte CSL product is a flexible and powerful messaging middleware framework for the HP NonStop platform. This presentation describes the product on several levels:
(1) Elevator pitch (Why/How/What?)
(2) Technical Use Cases (Geeky!)
(3) Business Cases
(4) How to modernize a legacy COBOL application
(5) Competing products
In case you missed our Red Hat Essentials Training at our offices find attached the slides that were presented. Designed to be the \'helicopter\' view of Red Hat and Open Source and the market opportunity.
Open Hybrid Cloud.
A presentation given by Erik Geensen, responsible for Cloud, Platform and Virtualization at Red Hat Benelux, at the OPEN'14 conference in Belgium.
OpenStack in Action 4! Franz Meyer - What Use Case does Red Hat Enterprise ...eNovance
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure provide cloud solutions for both traditional and cloud-enabled workloads. Red Hat brings support, stability, certification of hardware and software partners, and long lifecycles to OpenStack. Red Hat OpenStack Platform delivers the benefits of OpenStack with the enterprise qualities expected from Red Hat. It provides a path for customers to adopt OpenStack and hybrid cloud while continuing to run traditional applications on their existing infrastructure.
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This document discusses Red Hat's OpenStack platform. It provides an overview of OpenStack and what it is used for. It then discusses why Red Hat is well suited to provide an OpenStack platform, including that it is optimized to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and benefits from Red Hat's engineering resources and long term support. Key features of Red Hat's OpenStack platform are also summarized, such as performance, availability, security and manageability.
HP CAST 2017 Frankfurt : HPE UberCloud boosting HPC as a ServiceThomas Francis
HPC as a Service – Why is it important? Server HW Storage In the beginning - IT had to build, maintain and manage the HPC stack with very little help. Now IT finally has the tools to manage the full stack
www.theubercloud.com/hpc-as-a-service
Red Hat is a leading provider of open source software solutions for businesses. Founded in 1993, it has over 9,000 employees and annual revenue of $1.5 billion. Red Hat is best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, its commercially supported Linux distribution used widely by large enterprises. It offers a range of training courses and certifications in Red Hat technologies to help individuals and companies implement and manage Red Hat solutions. While it faces competition from other Linux vendors, Red Hat has established itself as the dominant player in the enterprise Linux market due to its strong brand, support offerings, and contributions to the Linux kernel.
How to bring innovation to your organization by streamlining the deployment process ?
IaaS, PaaS or Docker containers are all valid methods that can be tailored for your needs. They each come with advantages and drawbacks, and are opposed each day by vendors and providers along. Should we really impose a standard for every team ?
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become the default choice for running SAP applications due to several key factors:
1) Linux and open source software have conquered the enterprise by providing cost savings, high performance, and reliability compared to proprietary Unix systems that SAP was traditionally run on.
2) SAP applications are designed for a distributed architecture which Linux and commodity servers provide through horizontal scaling, allowing for faster performance and lower costs.
3) SAP and Red Hat have a close partnership where Red Hat provides long-term stability and support that meets the needs of mission critical enterprise applications like SAP.
Red Hat® Ceph Storage and Network Solutions for Software Defined InfrastructureIntel® Software
This document discusses Intel's vision for software defined infrastructure (SDI) and provides examples of how their technology enables SDI. The key points are:
1. Intel's SDI vision is to provide dynamic, policy-driven management of compute, storage, and networking resources through abstraction, orchestration, and standards-based solutions.
2. Red Hat Ceph Storage is presented as an open source, scalable storage solution optimized for SDI through the use of commodity servers and SSDs.
3. Intel is contributing to open standards and growing an ecosystem of partners through their Network Builders program to accelerate the SDI transformation.
The presentation covers-
1. Red Hat JBoss Developer Program
2. Red Hat JBoss Fuse
3. Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization
The workshop was recorded and we will provide a link once it has been posted.
Achhar Kalia has nearly 5 years of experience in application development, production support, and system integration. He has expertise in Linux/Unix administration, virtualization, databases, and networking. Some of his key skills include OpenStack, Oracle, DB2, networking protocols, and Ericsson products. He has worked on projects for clients such as Ericsson, Tata Consultancy Services, and Telstra involving the development, support and enhancement of various applications.
This document provides information about Red Hat training courses and certifications. It includes:
- An overview of Red Hat's industry-leading training courses, which are designed around real-world job roles to maximize skills transfer.
- Details on Red Hat's performance-based certification program, which assesses hands-on skills and is highly regarded in the IT industry.
- A listing and descriptions of Red Hat's certification tracks, including RHCSA, RHCE, RHCVA, and Certificates of Expertise specializations.
- Information on different training paths available to suit varied experience levels and backgrounds.
The intersection of Traditional IT and New-Generation ITKangaroot
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Learn more about the developers` dream and reality: what problems can be faced at the stage of applications deployment and how they can be solved with the help of Jelastic DevOps PaaS. Find out how to easily automate the process of software delivery, save money and expand your own project.
FlexPod has evolved from a platform for cost cutting, to the Cutting-edge. This Innovation announcement includes industry-first validated designs for Cisco ACI, NetApp FAS8000 unified scale-out storage, and Cisco Secure Enclaves. Also covered are new program enhancements.
Every developer dreams about the perfect PaaS solution to spend more time coding but not managing the application. Learn more about Jelastic DevOps Platform as a Service with smart orchestration, automatical vertical/horizontal scaling and high availability.
This document discusses Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. It begins by describing how workloads are evolving from traditional to cloud-based models that require massive scalability. It then introduces OpenStack as an open-source cloud infrastructure that provides this scalability. The document emphasizes that OpenStack depends on and must be tightly integrated with Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux specifically. It highlights several benefits of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform including enterprise support, integration testing, and partner ecosystem certification.
2. 3
Recognitions Strategy 2016…
Company overview
Company
Service
portfolio
Supported
operating
systems
Partnerships
2001
Establishment and
incorporation of the
company in 2001
2008
Separation of Linbit IT
and Linbit HA
2016
Re-branding of Linbit IT
as LINFORGE
2003
First proprietary product:
„Linbox“, an out-of-the-box
all-round office server
2004 - today
Positioning around managed
services for open source
infrastructure
2006
Ubuntu
2003
• Suse partner
• Steel Eye
Lifekeeper partner
Increased focus on cloud
services
2014
• Comparex partner
• Quorum partner
• OpenFabNet / industry 4.0
2016
2004
First-time winner
of the newly introduced
open source category
Nominated as
best Austrian open source
consultant
2005 - 2014
Further extension of our
team by building new
talent internally
Expand in new growth fields
such as HPC, Cloud,
LINFORGE TAM, Appliance
products (i.e. LINSAN)
Maintain our lead in
Europe by continuously
investing in our employees
Extend our strong network of
partnerships by adding
complimentary positioned
competitors as sales catalysts
2001
Debian
2013
• Red Hat partner
• SEP partner
• Avnet partner
Red Hat
Suse
2013
Selection of key events
Expansion
2002
Acquisition of key client
PORR AG: Proof of concept for
open source Enterprise IT
Our partnership with Red
Hat kicked of a new level
of customer acquisition
2013
„LINFORGE must be named
as a widely acknowledged
lighthouse example –
reaching far beyond the
borders of the
OSS-community – for
Vienna’s position.”
(study “ICT-location Vienna”,
technopolis group 2012)
2015
Grow our reputation as
high-end go-to specialist
for open source into
Germany and Switzerland
2006
First customer in Germany,
WIWeoGis – a happy
customer until today
Austria’s most prestigious
consultancy and IT award
3. 4
Applying our deep industry expertise in the areas outlined above, our mission is to create professional Enterprise IT
Core service portfolio – “Peace of mind for your IT”
- RH1 Satellite 5 (Spacewalk)
- RH1 Satellite 6 (Katello)
- SUSE Manager (Spacewalk)
- OpsView
- CheckMK
- KVM
- RHV (oVirt)
- RH1 Cloudforms (ManageIQ)
- OpenNebula
- Openstack
- Puppet
- Ansible
Cloud
management
Configuration
management
System
management
Virtualization Monitoring
TAM1
- Admin, custom-tailored
- Technically separated
Note: 1) Red Hat 2) Technical Account Management – for the entire spectrum of Linux distributions
4. 5
Our team’s competencies
After many years of offering a very broad service portfolio, LINFORGE is now positioned to leverage on its team’s core skills
Note: Skills mentioned on this slide indicate that (at least one) of LINFORGE’s employees has knowledge on expert level. Skills in (brackets) indicate less specialized, basic skills .
Storage
Red Hat Storage Server, Gluster, Storage Planning w/
RAID, LVM, Filesystem; SAMBA, NFS, iSCSI, (Ceph)
Networking
Advanced Networking and Routing IPv4/IPv6,
Traffic Shaping, VPN, VLANS, HP/Cisco
Switches, FiberChannel, Infiniband
Backup
SEP Sesam, DRBD Proxy, Bacula, rsync
Operating Systems
Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu,
Debian, Oracle Linux,
Scientific Linux, CentOS,
Fedora, Univention UCS
Cloud
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Openstack
Platform, SUSE
Cloud, Red Hat
CloudForms, RDO,
OpenNebula
High Availability
Pacemaker Cluster Manager w/ Heartbeat/
Corosync; Red Hat Cluster Suite, SUSE HA
Extension, DRBD
Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization, Linux
KVM, (VMWare), oVirt,
VirtualBox, (Citrix Xen)
Containerization
Docker, OpenVZ, (LXC)
Systems Management
Red Hat Satellite 5.x/6.x, SUSE Manager, Spacewalk, Katello
Configuration Management / Provisioning
Puppet, Foreman, Ansible, csync2, (Pulp)
Monitoring
CheckMK, OpsView,
Icinga, Nagios, ntop
Network Monitoring
Applications
Webserver: Apache, nginx,
(Tomcat), E-Mail: Zimbra,
Postfix, Sendmail, Dovecot,
Courier, (Zarafa),
Squirrelmail, Roundcube,
Cloud: owncloud, nexcloud,
Other: Asterisk, DNS bind
Firewall
Linux Netfilter Firewall, Red Hat Firewall, Firehol
Security
IPSec, OpenVPN, Encryption: OpenSSL, PGP, S/MIME,
x509 Certificate/CA Management; SELinux, TOR
Databases
MySQL, MariaDB, SkySQL, PostgreSQL,
(Oracle, Ingres, MongoDB, IBM DB2)
Performance Tuning
Linux Kernel, Database,
Webserver, Mailserver, Storage
Complimentary ExtendedCore
Directory Services
OpenLDAP, Red Hat IPA,
eDirectory Server
Communication
IRC, Jabber/Openfire,
(Empathy, Pidgin)
Development
Interpreter Languages: Bash,
Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP;
Compiler Languages: C, C++
Loadbalancer
Linux Virtual Server, HA
Proxy, (Pen)
5. 6
Technical Sales
LINFORGE’s employees are Europe’s highest-certified team of Linux-distributors
7x Red Hat Certified Engineer
7x Red Hat Certified System Administrator
5x Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator
4x Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist
3x Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
4x Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
1x Red Hat Delivery Specialist – Infrastructure-as-a-Service (PaaS)
1x Red Hat Delivery Specialist - RHEL 7 Troubleshooting
7x Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management
4x Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Clustering and Storage Management
2x Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Directory Services and Authentication
4x Red Hat Sales Engineer Specialist – Cloud Management
4x Red Hat Sales Specialist – Middleware Application Development
3x Red Hat Sales Specialist – Platform
3x Red Hat Sales Specialist – Virtualization
2x Platform: Partner Certified Salesperson
2x Virtualization: Partner Certified Salesperson
1x Red Hat Sales Engineer Specialist – Platform Migration
1x Red Hat Sales Specialist – Cloud Management
5x Novell Certified Linux Professional 11 2x Certified SUSE Salesperson
2x SEP sesam Basic Administrator Version 4.0
1x SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux
Note: #x...number of certified LINFORGE employees per category
Certifications (company level)
We are officially entitled to provide CheckMK trainings in Austria
6. 8
Felder Group
Company background
- Wood working machinery; sold in 72 countries; 400 employees headquartered in
Hall in Tirol, Austria + 200 sales centers
Problem
- Felder’s virtualization has been running on a "VMware vShpere Essentials“
license, a very popular solution amongst SMEs, with the bottleneck of allowing
only 3 ESXi Hypervisor Hosts
- Upgrade to "VMware vSphere Advanced“ very costly
Solution
- With "Red Hat Virtualization" (former "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization") a cost-
efficient solution was found, which scales independently of the number of
deployed Hypervisors
- The solution is operated via a web surface provided by "Red Hat Virtualization
Manager" that runs on a multitude of client operation systems and has been
made highly available by applying LINFORGE’s sister company’s data
replication software DRBD. (LINBIT1)
Virtualization
PORR AG
IP-Networks
Company background
- Leading Central, Eastern & South-Eastern European construction company,
based out of AUT; 13,000 employees, revenues of around EUR 3.5 bn (2015)
Problem
- PORR has been searching for an alternative for its relatively expensive Frame
Relay lines to its international construction sites
- The solution must be stable, safe (i.e. tap-proof), cost-efficient and flexible in
terms of connectivity
Solution(s) (since 2002 with already 4 projects and 3 hardware generations)
- Project 1_Site Networking via VPN-IPSEC-Tunnel: starting in 2002 with a POC
in Poland and the HQ in Vienna, by now grown to a system of 130 locations,
connected via a “full-mesh” VPN tunnel
- Project 2_Clientless VPN/SSL VPN: 2004 ( - long before it became available off-
the-shelf) access to the company‘s intranet via a HTTPS-enabled web browser,
authentication with RSA-key-Fobs
- Project 3_OpenVPN: Provision of a self-service application for employees to
install OpenVPN client and gain access to the company‘s network services (also
non HTTP/HTTPS), inclusive of a security policy
- Project 4_Highly available internet connection (BGP) for the HQ
Source: Company information 1) www.linbit.com
Result
- Independency of hardware- and software suppliers / zero license fees
- Costs reduced by more than 40% compared to a proprietary solution
- Scalable solution
- Enormous value from high availability
Result
- Cost savings of ~80% compared to previously planed solution
- Scalable solution, 130 sites connected redundant and highly available to HQ
Customer success stories
7. 9
emarsys eMarketing Systems AG
Company background
- Marketing automation software for retail and e-commerce; serving > 1,500 clients in over
140 countries; headquartered in AUT with > 550 employees in 15 offices
Problem
- Two historically grown, monolithic, central databases were hindering the
implementation of urgently needed features for emarsys’ platform and repeatedly
caused issues for daily ops and maintenance
- Expectations on the new solution: 1.) Strict separation of static master- and dynamic
application data 2.) scalability 3.) improved performance and increased reliability in day-to-
day ops, backup and restore options 4.) minimization of required adaptions on platform
applications 5.) high availability and data redundancy 6.) no downtime
Solution
- 1.) Replacing DAS-based DB+backup by high-end server with local HDD storage for OS
and backup, plus local PCIe-SSD storage for DB 2.) High availability & data
redundancy realized with a DB-proprietary streaming replication mechanism of one
master onto several slaves 3.) backup implemented in the same form, with one VM on the
DB server itself and another on the disaster recovery knot – not needing an own DB
authority in day-to-day ops 4.) filesystem with integrated snapshot functionality
5.) dynamic application data stored in new structure based on dedicated instances
Managed services
Salinen Austria AG
Storage area networks
Company background
- Salt producer, based in Austria with subsidiaries throughout CEE; generating revenues >
EUR 100 mn with 470 employees
Problem
- Servers installed at two different sites, located about 12 miles apart from each other.
Annual increase in data volume of 30 percent – the storage capacity of the company’s
IT infrastructure needed an extension
- Storage area networks are quite expensive due to the cost intensive special server and
switch components as well as the fiber glass cables required
Solution (“It doesn’t always have to be a SAN”)
- LINFORGE developed a cost effective alternative , an IP-based iSCSI storage area
network that allows using COTS hardware and conventional Ethernet
Source: Company information
Result
- LINFORGE equipped a start-up with the scalable IT needed to expand globally –
since then emarsys grew from 6 to 208 hosts (and further sticks to LINFORGE)
- LINFORGE is the only open source provider that offers 24 x 7 on-call service –
emarsys can focus on its core business and let LINFORGE deal with the rest
Result
- “An attractive alternative at a tenth of the cost” (Head of IT, Salinen Austria AG)
- LINFORGE’s iSCSI storage area network allows maintenance and upgrade
activities during operation
Customer success stories
Problem
- Nagios monitoring in place; wish for a solution that 1.) can be easily operated via an
interface and 2.) identifies autonomously the prevalent hardware monitoring checks
Solution
- The monitoring system CheckMK , that exactly meets the customer’s needs, was
implemented. The solution supports features that outperform conventional m. systems
Monitoring system
8. 10
Solution
- Consolidation of different operating systems onto Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
- Red Hat Satellite Server, to simplify automation processes
- A Standard Operating Environment (SOE) was defined and prepared
to be rolled out fast and often
- In total, 200 virtual machines were consolidated and are now
centrally managed:
o 80x vServer Microsoft (XP – MS Server 2008)
o 80x vServer CentOS
o 40x other virtualized Linux distributions
- ZID’s technicians were trained by LINFORGE in several workshops:
o Red Hat Satellite: Installation workshop
o Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Installation of two virtualization
environments (different SLAs)
o Monitoring: Installation workshop CheckMK plus mini-intro
University of Innsbruck – ZID (Zentraler Informatikdienst)
Customer background
- Central IT Service unit with a staff of 100 employees for all faculties, employees and students of the University of Innsbruck
- Serving research and development, teaching and continuing professional education; > 28,000 students and university staff > 4,600
Red Hat Satellite Server
Source: University website, LINFORGE OPEX estimate
Customer success stories
As a consequence of LINFORGE’s project, the University of Innsbruck switched off its entire VMWare environment and is now completely open-source run
Problem
- The University of Innsbruck made it a
strategic goal to become
independent from conventional
software vendors and benefit from
cost savings provided by Open-Source
- Also its high standards and
requirements on scientific IT
applications and security raised the
wish for a Open-Source solution
- The central requirement was a
management software that is able to
set up and update various predefined
server configurations, thereby
reducing manual efforts drastically
- They requested support in Unix2Linux
Migration
Result
- The Red Hat Satellite Server enables us to
comfortably and reliably make the required
updates on the multitude of systems we use.
We are now in the position to make the system
updates with significantly reduced OPEX.”
(Dr. Dirk Draheim, Head of ZID)
VMWare
vCenter Server,
40 Sockets
vs.
RHEV
RHEV-Manager,
20 hypervisors
1st year € 157,642.- € 15,960.-
following years € 27,347.- € 15,960.-
UNIX
48 systems
vs.
RHEL
per year € 114,816.- € 37,180.-
OPEX
estimate
9. 11
emarsys eMarketing Systems AG
Customer background
- Marketing automation software for retail and e-commerce
- Serving > 1,500 clients in over 140 countries; headquartered in AUT with > 550 employees in 15 offices
IT infrastructure growth
Source: Company website
Customer success stories
Problem
- With Emarsys’ exponential
company growth over the years,
not only the number of active
users but also the functionality and
requirements on the underlying IT
infrastructure repeatedly
expanded into new spheres
- Emarsys needed a true expert in
terms of
o hardware,
o operating system,
o network,
o monitoring and
o security
Solution
- Over the past 14 years, LINFORGE brought what has been one data center consisting of a few
servers and network components, to a 3-digit number of physical- and virtual servers,
spread across 4 separated data centers:
- Transition of technologies (next to up- and running operations) – e.g.:
o from Cisco PIX Firewall to Linux Netfilter HA-Cluster, and later on from PA to PI with
BGP4
o from Debian GNU/Linux to Red Hat Linux and now to CentOS
o database migration (see previous case study included in company pres.)
- High availability and disaster recovery storage solution : DRBD; from data center no.1
initially, to DRBD-proxy across all data centers
- Large-scale application of systems management, configuration management systems and
virtualization on server clusters
- 24 x 7 on-call service – Emarsys can focus on its core business
Result
- Many of LINFORGE’s services
influenced Emarsys’ user
experience directly
- The impact LINFORGE made,
spans across a horizon of
multiple technology lifecycles
and is reflected in various
dimensions, e.g.:
o from 6 to 208 hosts
o DB size: from a few GB to 1.5
TB
o Network topology: from a few
10/100MB switches to
redundant GB switches to 10
GB backbone infrastructure in 2
data centers
LINFORGE contributes IT performance, reliability and security to Emarsys’ success story – from start-up to the multinational e-commerce marketing leader it is today
20162002
10. 12
Partner network
o We have a strong reputation in our fields of expertise. Our partners know about our
open-source strength and name us as the go-to specialist in terms of high-end
open-source
o In an increasingly complex ecosystem, we seek to partner with complimentary
positioned competitors and win them as sales catalysts (and vice versa)
Word of mouth
o Recommendations from the existing customer base, to contact LINFORGE in
order to get the best open-source solution
o LINFORGE’s strongest sales channel – the majority of LINFORGE’s customers
are acquired via recommendations
LINFORGE Technical Account Management (TAM)
o Known from our LINFORGE TAM service offer as an efficient partner, a lot of our
customers come back to us when it is time for larger IT projects
Sales channels & customers
A major factor for its constantly increasing customer base is LINFORGE’s ability to consistently exceed customer expectations
Example:
Direct
o Congresses
o Our own events
o Press releases
o Network (i.e. OpenFabNet)
Example
customer:
Example
customer:
Example
partner/
customer:
Sales channels Selected examples
“Once we have a
customer on board and
we had the chance to
prove our value, we are
asked to stay…
…the major part of our
revenues comes from
upselling, which
happens naturally as our
performance is
extraordinary.”
11. 13
Company
Service
portfolio
Certifications
Partnerships
Rebranding
Capitalize on clear company positioning
as specialist IT consulter in targeted
marketing initiatives
Strategy 2016 onwards…
Expansion
Key initiatives
Further extension of our
team by building new
talent internally
Expand in new growth
fields such as HPC, Cloud,
Linforge TAM, Appliance
products (i.e. LINSAN)
Maintain our lead in
Europe by continuously
investing in our employees
Extend our strong network of
partnerships by adding
complimentary positioned
competitors as sales catalysts
Grow our reputation as
high-end go-to specialist
for open source into
Germany and Switzerland
Technical staff
Increase our team of industry experts by
building three new talents internally
Sales staff
Hire one additional sales manager and
intensify our business development and
marketing efforts
HPC storage
Through our partnership with BeeGFS we
are prepared to enter the HP storage
segment
CloudForms
The demand on the market is larger than
the supply of know-how on the subject - we
are positioned to capitalize on that need
Technical Account Management
We sense a strong demand for expert
knowledge across the entire Linux
spectrum that we cater to with our TAM offer
Market knowledge
Our deep industry expertise allows us to
anticipate the next big thing on time
– we start to acquire new knowledge early
External training
We maintain our position as high-end open
source specialist by consistently investing
in our people’s education
Apprenticeship approach
Both, “old” & new knowledge circulates
within our team, which helps us to build &
maintain a broad knowledge base
Further expansion
Our reputation as specialists helps us to
constantly increase our strong partner
network
Turn competition into partners
In the overflowing OSS universe we build
alliances with former competition that
complement our portfolio (and vice versa)
OS Business
Funnel new approaches on OS from our
large network of thought leaders into new
products – and grow together
Marketing
Consequently target opportunities in
Germany and Switzerland with our new
brand name
Industry 4.0
Approach a new segment of customers that
needs to react on the omnipresent mega
trend with a compelling offer
Spread geographically
Extend our team of sales staff and
technicians throughout the DACH region
Strategy and roadmap
12. 14
Contact details
LINFORGE Technologies GmbH
Vivenotgasse 48
1120 Vienna
Austria
Manfred Ostermann
Head of Sales & Marketing
LINFORGE | Peace of mind for your IT
E: manfred.ostermann@linforge.com
T: +43 1 817 82 92 54
Clemens Niederreiter
Chief Operating Officer
LINFORGE | Peace of mind for your IT
E: clemens.niederreiter@linforge.com
T: +43 1 817 82 92 53