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Red Hat Webinar Series for System Integrators

Due to IT budget constraints, pressures on CIO's to drive innovation and differentiation, new technologies fueling data center and application retooling, and the Open Source model changing IT economics in favor of the government customer, System Integrators (SI) are expanding their solution offerings in proposal responses to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Middleware solutions. SAIC recently created a line of business dedicated solely to Open Source technology to include Red Hat products, services, and support.

With Red Hat's business development team for government, we continue to strengthen partnerships with SI's including SAIC, Booz Allen Hamilton, SRA, Lockheed Martin, CSC, BAE, Raytheon, SI-International, Boeing, L3, General Dynamics, and others.

We invite you to join us for a series of webinars, designed specifically for SI's. Learn more about Red Hat solutions, and how they can help you provide more value to your government customers.

Session 1: Future Proof Your Software Practice with Open Source
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Government IT requirements are constantly evolving and growing. And many agencies will offer new contract opportunities for businesses to develop Web-based tools that help them work more efficiently with their constituents and stakeholders. With the push towards open government and civic developers, the need for open, transparent tools is more important than ever.

Speakers:
Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat
Mike Byrd, Government Channel, Red Hat Director

Session 2: Reduce IT Infrastructure Costs with JBoss Enterprise Middleware
June 28, 2011, 2:00pm Eastern
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Join us for this complimentary webcast where we will discuss Open Source Middleware, more specifically JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and how Red Hat takes Open Source projects from our JBoss.org community and tests, certifies, hardens, and documents our software, all while providing Support SLA's 24x7.
We will also discuss each of the JBoss Middleware products that we offer including our Application Platform, Portal, SOA, Enterprise Data Services, Business Rules Management, JBoss Operations Network, etc.

Speakers:
Mike Darretta, Solutions Architect, JBoss Middleware
Mike Byrd, Government Channel, Red Hat Director

Session 3: Enterprise Data Services Platform
July 12, 2011, 2:00pm Eastern
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Although the benefits of adopting a services-oriented architecture are many, in practice enterprises experience major challenges in migrating their IT environments toward an agile, SOA-based framework. Our experience has shown one of the key stumbling blocks in SOA adoption is fundamental: dealing with all the disparate data already present in the enterprise. Indeed, analysts estimate over 70% of the "services" in an SOA are actually data services. One of the reasons this is a challenge is because of the "impedance mismatch" between the different types of data: SOA-oriented data is for the most part XML-based, whereas the vast majority of data already present in the enterprise is in the form of relationally-structured data in a database.
This webinar will introduce the JBoss Enterprise Data Services (EDS) platform, an optional new add-on to the JBoss SOA Platform, which addresses this challenge. JBoss EDS is fully integrated with the JBoss SOA Platform and provides a powerful set of tools that elegantly solve one of the hardest problems in SOA development, getting to the data.

Speaker:
Chuck Mosher, Principal Solutions Architect, JBoss Middleware

Session 4: Proven Security in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
July 27, 2011, 2:00pm Eastern
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Red Hat understands Government security challenges - meeting compliance regulations, protecting the computing infrastructure, and providing a safe pathway to the cloud. Red Hat technologies are the solutions of choice for organizations that require strict security certifications, and have earned their reputation as robust and reliable.
Join us for this webinar, and at the end of the presentation you will understand how and why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and be able to explain it to others.

Speaker:
Greg Pryzby, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Session 5: Red Hat Network Satellite - Making Enterprise Linux Deployable, Scalable, and Manageable
August 9, 2011, 2:00pm Eastern
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Lifecycle management is a process and toolset that is designed to provide a systematic and repeatable method for managing each stage of a system from conception through production. The key to operating an enterprise environment using a lifecycle management approach is this: a clear set of procedures and a toolset to execute it. A plan without the tools cannot be implemented, while tools without a plan will provide unpredictable results.

Learn how open source network and management tools can become the mission control for your systems throughout the lifecycle of your project. The session will cover:

Building the ideal Standard Operating Environment (SOE)
SOE Challenges
The importance of PROCESS in SOE success
An overview of Red Hat Network Satellite
Real success stories from customers

With Red Hat Network Satellite's web-based interface, you can easily provision hundreds of servers in a matter of minutes, keeping them error-free, up-to-date, patched, and fully compliant. A successful lifecycle management approach is the combination of a thorough and workable set of procedures combined with the right toolset.

Speakers:
Mike Byrd, Director Government Channel Sales, Red Hat
Chris Wells, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Management & Security, Red Hat
Uzoma Nwosu, Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Session 6: MRG-M - Build a Best of Breed Messaging Solution
August 30, 2011, 2:00pm Eastern
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During this webinar our speakers discussed how Red Hat looks ahead to the requirements of the next generation. The messaging experts outlined how Red Hat's MRG Messaging - and the AMQP specification upon which it is based - offer the foundation for a range of new solutions that transcend the capabilities of the past.

Speakers:
Kim Palko, Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Messaging, Red Hat
Mike Darretta, Sr. Solutions Architect, Public Sector, Red Hat