Keynote - Red Hat CIO Roundtable, Meydan, Dubai, May 7th 2014

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Agility & Flexibility in Enterprise through
Cloud & Open Source
Thomas Benjamin
Vice President – IT Architecture
Emirates Group IT

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Explosion in Data

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Reach of Mobile Devices

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IT Executive’s Challenge – Next Platform
Secure
• A platform that is secure and hardened to support our
Enterprise level requirements.
Mature &
Flexible Platform
• A platform that’s mature with a significant user base so that
supporting tools and infrastructure are available. One that is
flexible enough to support pluggable architecture.
Extreme
Scalability
• A platform that’s truly distributed, concurrent and extremely
scalable.
Highly Available
& Resilience
• A platform that has high availability and resilience that’s
built into its DNA.

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Rich Choice in Implementation

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http://blog.newrelic.com/2012/01/10/infographic-oss-java-wins-in-the-cloud-era/
Maturity in the Open Source

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Hardening Cloud Platform

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Cloud
Providers
Presentation
•Jhipster(Angular, Bootstrap)..
•Jquery, Knockout, Emberjs, websockets …
Middleware
•Java, ErLang, Clojure, Scala, Akka, .Net..
•Tomcat, Jboss, WebSphere, WebLogic …
•TIBCO, ActiveMQ, WSO2, Oracle SOA …
Big, Fast, Acid
Data
•Oracle, DB2, Cassandra, MemSQL, MongoDB,
NuoDB, Aerospike, CouchDB, Riak
•Hadoop, Terrradata, Hyperion, Essbase
Choices to Make ….from many
Enterprise Case Study

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Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out
and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of
money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is
of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
- Peter F Druker

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