Like many corporations and state agencies, the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) was faced with a dilemma – to maintain and advance its aging technology platforms in the face of a retiring workforce and tightening budgets. OAG's CIO Gary Buonacorsi recognized that in order to advance his technology infrastructure, he must move forward with the establishment of a next generation architecture in a phased approach. This phased approach would tap into the subject matter expertise of his existing resources and position the technology stack for the future.
Buonacorsi looked to JBoss as a means to vastly reduce the cost of his next-generation platform. He found the mentoring-based approach proposed by Amentra, a Red Hat company focused on middleware services, to be the mechanism to help him realize his vision. In this presentation Buonacorsi and Steve Burris, from Amentra, will address the:
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| Carving out Costs | Operate & Manage | Wednesday, September 2 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM |
Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the leading global provider of educational and professional testing services. Faced with the challenge of rolling out new, competitively priced educational products and services more swiftly while cutting costs, they chose to build applications upon a base of infrastructure software technology that would position ETS for evolution into cloud models. In this session, Harikumar Rajappan, Enterprise IT Architect for Applications at ETS will discuss why they decided to migrate from IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and how ETS was able to reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable and secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly.
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| Carving out Costs | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Over the past year Red Hat's Information Technology group aggressively consolidated its service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure on the JBoss platform. They have made major migrations to JBoss, reducing their hardware footprint by 50% while increasing performance and scale. As a part of this move, the IT group shifted services to leverage high availability Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), which allowed them to simplify the network topology while still maintaining high availability and flexibility in deployments.
The JBoss migration has also had significant software benefits. By utilizing standard JBoss Enterprise Frameworks, the IT group was able to retire a series of custom solutions that it had built to enable single sign on and clustering. The IT group was also able to consolidate a collection of proprietary and open source middleware solutions on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. JBoss Enterprise Platforms are now running the majority of the group's mission critical applications and middleware flows and are constantly expanding.
Matt Hicks, a Red Hat enterprise architect and manager, will:
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| Carving out Costs | Integrate & SOA | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
In today’s challenging business environment it is becoming a matter of survival for enterprises to make optimal use of their existing IT infrastructures and investments. Many of the data assets that a company needs to operate efficiently are already present, but in a host of different databases, ERP and CRM systems, spreadsheets, and the like. Thus gathering, correlating, packaging, and presenting data from across the company is extremely difficult.
DST Health Solutions has chosen to use the JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform from Red Hat to create virtual views of all heterogeneous data sources and serve that data up in real-time as though it were originating from a homogeneous data source. This platform provides a rich graphical user interface (GUI) environment that enables the rapid creation of these virtual data views. These views are then packaged into executable models that are deployed to the data server, where the potentially complex transformations needed to create them are optimized and executed in real-time to read (or write) the data as needed.
In this presentation Christopher Creel, knowledge management and communications director at DST Health Solutions, will discuss DST's use of the JBoss Data Services Platform. Creel will demonstrate how DST has been able to gain more accurate operational insight into anticipated revenue (by including real-time data on SLA commitments). He will also discuss how the company has dramatically increased the speed with which it can integrate third party applications during business process outsourcing implementations.
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| Carving out Costs | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
Fat Spaniel is the world's largest provider of software-as-a-service for renewable energy monitoring and management. Fat Spaniel's customer network includes Costco, Kohl's, eBay, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., and a number of Napa Valley wineries.
Fat Spaniel, which is a self-proclaimed open source advocate, uses JBoss as the J2EE execution container for all of its core web services. In addition Fat Spaniel partners with Jaspersoft to leverage the world's largest open source business intelligence (BI) community. Because maintaining efficiency is a top priority for Fat Spaniel, partnering with Jaspersoft, a leader in open source business intelligence, was a natural fit.
In this presentation Brett Francis, Fat Spaniel's VP of Engineering and Software Architecture, will describe how open source BI is helping the solar power expert "compete on analytics." Francis will illustrate how in-depth reporting and analytic capabilities are baked into Fat Spaniel's flagship product for maintenance of solar power plants.
Francis will provide real-world examples of the different kinds of information surfaced by Jaspersoft's BI capabilities, used by both Fat Spaniel and their customers, to make critical business decisions. He will provide industry insights about the benefits of using open source software within the renewable energy space. He will also reveal how IT managers can select and effectively leverage JBoss and other open source solutions to improve efficiency and quality and meet business objectives.
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| Carving out Costs | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Learn about the future of JavaEE and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. This birds-of-a-feather session allows you to meet the key players driving the direction of JBoss' next generation Microcontainer and core enterprise capabilities.
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| Carving out Costs | Wednesday, September 2 | 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM |
In this presentation Steve Millidge, director of C2B2 Consulting Limited, will explore the lessons learned from his company's large-scale applications migration (from WebLogic to JBoss). C2B2 is a consulting agency located in the UK that specializes in service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE).
Using a real world example, Millidge will:
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| Carving out Costs | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM |
In 2008 Bright Grey, a UK financial services company, initiated a project to migrate its Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications from WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Key to the success of this project was a quick (5 months) and accurate migration with no loss to operational business or service as 80% of all new businesses were processed online. In this presentation Hon Yau, a technical designer at Bright Grey, will describe how the project was successfully completed. Yau will also detail the benefits of migrating to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
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| Carving out Costs | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM |
CME Group, a company that serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe, has been a WebLogic shop for more than eight years. The decision to use WebLogic was first questioned when overhead problems arose when deploying one application per server. Soon after Joel Tosi, CME's lead architect, conducted a thorough audit of CME's applications. The audit revealed that not only did CME not need the out of the box bloat of WebLogic, but the majority of the staff did not even know what some of the items in the WebLogic console meant. In addition writing workarounds for WebLogic issues and waiting weeks for poor or no resolution from support was becoming more prevalent.
In this presentation Tosi will briefly discuss the history of CME with WebLogic, highlighting what CME uses the application server for and the limitations the company has encountered. For the majority of the presentation, Tosi will focus on the successful migration from WebLogic to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Tomcat.
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| Carving out Costs | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
In this session Unmesh Kulkarni, Director of Software Architecture and Delivery at Covad Communications, will discuss how the broadband provider transitioned from inflexible and costly proprietary middleware software and hardware to JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
Some of the benefits Covad Communications realized include: reduced costs by more than $500,000 annually in hardware and software support, enabled cost-effective modernization of service-oriented architecture (SOA), improved performance of existing systems, and reduced time-to-market of new products.
Kulkarni will discuss how Covad evaluated different alternative software solutions, and explain why open source makes sense in an enterprise environment. He will focus on how to build a simple Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using JBoss technologies, and share tips and tricks to make your SOA implementation and migration to JBoss painless and successful.
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| Carving out Costs | Integrate & SOA | Thursday, September 3 | 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM |
Industry leaders today widely agree that standardization on open software platforms and application tools is not only viable, but the preferred path for the future success of their companies. But what about the physical infrastructure? In this session, you will learn how Dell is helping to maximize the performance and efficiency of an open standards based infrastructure ecosystem. From platforms that deliver high performance and energy efficient designs, to customized data center planning and consulting, the Efficient Enterprise is not just a buzz word, but a mission statement for any I/T department.
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| Carving out Costs | Operate & Manage | Thursday, September 3 | 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM |
Cloud Computing and Open Source (CCOSS) present a powerful combination for creating major competitive advantages for enterprises in every business vertical. In this presentation Max Yankelevich, Chief Architect from Freedom OSS, will examine advantages, pitfalls and processes related to leveraging CCOSS in Enterprise environment. Yankelevich will also share case studies of enterprises currently leveraging cloud computing from Amazon Wed Service (AWS) and Red Hat and JBoss open source for mission critical applications.
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| Carving out Costs | Catalyst | Thursday, September 3 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
It's hot. Real hot. The mercury's pushing one-hundred degrees, air conditioning units up and down the East Coast are operating at full bore and the electric grid is groaning under the demand. Unless something can be done to reduce electricity consumption and fast, blackout is inevitable. The grid operator declares an emergency. EnerNOC's jBPM-powered business process springs into action. Energy-hungry industrial plants, college campuses, supermarket chains and retail outlets are alerted to the crisis. Their electricity curtailment procedures are triggered automatically; reducing inessential lighting and environmental controls, turning on backup generators and temporarily halting energy intensive production activities. Within minutes, EnerNOC and her customers have shed a power plant's worth of load from the electric grid and helped to avoid disaster.
This innovative new strategy for electric grid management is known as Demand Response (DR). DR is swiftly being adopted by grid operators worldwide as a means of combating grid emergencies caused by increased load, of controlling costs by reducing demand and of maintaining consistency on electric grids that are becoming more unpredictable by the introduction of renewables that rely on environmental factors like sun and wind that are out of our control.
EnerNOC, Inc. stands at the forefront of this new industry, thanks in no small part to its technological innovation. Efficiently orchestrating the actions of thousands of customers spread over large geographic areas under crisis circumstances is no small task. EnerNOC uses JBoss's Business Process Management solution to effectively notify thousands of customers, obtain their go-ahead and execute their customized DR procedures to reduce their electricity consumption. Within minutes, EnerNOC can shed hundreds of megawatts from the electric grid with the touch of a button. Literally. In this session, EnerNOC Enteprise Architect Jim Nichols and Principal Software Engineer Matt Tucker will discuss how EnerNOC leverages jBPM every day to help build the green economy.
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| Carving out Costs | Operate & Manage | Friday, September 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |