RedHat sessions roadmap and RedHat 7 new features

 

 

 

The presentations and videos from Red Hat's in-house conference provide information on current and forthcoming products from the open source specialist, including version 7 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 will be based on Fedora 18, which is due for release in November and the first public beta of RHEL 7 is scheduled for sometime in the first half of 2013. The open source specialist provided these and several other details of upcoming and planned new products at Red Hat Summit and JBossWorld 2012, its in-house conference held in Boston in the last week of June.

There are, however, still various details to be fleshed out in the plans for the next generation of RHEL. On Btrfs, for example, Red Hat manager Jim Totten told The H's associates at heise Open that they are watching the development of the filesystem and will offer support in RHEL when it is ready. Btrfs is still marked as experimental in the kernel.org Linux kernel, but has been supported in SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and RHEL derivative Oracle Linux since the spring. Btrfs can be used in RHEL 6, but is marked as a technology preview, meaning that Red Hat takes no responsibility if it blows up in the user's face.


Red Hat has not released any concrete information about the actual level of support for Btrfs
Source: Red Hat The "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Roadmap Highlights" presentation revealed that RHEL 7 will support ext4, XFS and Btrfs for both data and boot partitions. Whether ext4 will remain the default filesystem or be supplanted by Btrfs is unclear. The presentation slides include further information on enhancements planned for the next generation of RHEL. Version 7 should, for example, fully support Linux containers (LXC) – these are, and will remain, a technical preview in RHEL 6. No specific plans for ARM support in RHEL were officially presented, but Red Hat staff have pointed out that Fedora already runs on ARM. Red Hat is also reported to be working with Linaro to improve Java performance on ARM.

The presentation also discussed some of the changes that have found their way into the recently released RHEL 6.3 and RHEL 5.8, as well as some of the updates planned for RHEL 5.9 and 6.4. The highly informative presentation, in which various Red Hat managers elucidate the new features in their areas, is available as two 50 minute long videos.

In this 'Best of' session at the 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, Tim Burke, vice president of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, describes feature enhancements in recently released versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Burke then has his team of engineering development managers highlight their technology area and key initiatives. They also discuss emerging technologies targeted for delivery in future releases.

Burke first gives a brief Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle overview, and an explanation of various themes within Linux development today. He then explores timeframes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 feature possibilities and Fedora 18 enhancements.

He then turns the session over to his teams, who present technology area highlights, including information about:

- virtualization
- kernel and virtual memory
- hardware enablement
- storage and volume management
- filesystem and Gluster

Video1:

 

 

This is part 2 of a 'Best of' session with Tim Burke, vice president of Linux Engineering from Red Hat, at the 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World

Tim Burke, vice president of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, briefly summarizes the first half's content, then has a team of engineering development managers highlight their technology area and key initiatives. They also discuss emerging technologies targeted for delivery in future releases.

Areas they discuss in this part include:

- filesystem
- base OS commands and util
- security
- desktop features
- developer tool features

 

Video2:

 

 

RedHat Roadmap:

 

Burke rhel roadmap from albertspijkers

 

RedHat enterprise virtualization:

 

Among the videos is a recording of a presentation giving an overview of the company's Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) virtualisation product – much of this presentation is taken up with describing new features planned for RHEV 3.1. It will, for example, fully support the platform-independent web administration portal, which will mean the demise of the old Internet-Explorer-based administration interface. Live snapshots and live storage migration are also planned, though the latter will only be included as a technology preview.

 

In this session from the 2012 Red Hat Summit, Andrew Cathrow, product manager, and Chuck Dubuque, product marketing manager for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. They discuss Red Hat virtualization, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3, and the past, present, and future of virtualization technology.

Dubuque discusses the current environment, including virtualization competitor VMware, and the opportunity that a second source for virtualization--a open standards source--offers.

He then offers details about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, including information about management features, hypervisor technology, specVIRT success, and opportunities for cost savings.

Cathow then joins in to talk about development of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.1, and the growth of the communities surrounding it, including Fedora and oVirt.

Cathow highlights features and changes in Red Hat Enteprise Virtualization, including:

- OpenJDK requirement for proprietary Oracle JRE is eliminated.
- Support for Jasper 4.7 and two new directory servers
- Scalability to 160 Virtual CPUs per VM and 2T virtual RAM per VM
- enhanced physical to virtual migration (P2V)
- Live snapshots
- Shared disks
- SDK availability
- new top-level manager for managing disks
- direct LUN access

Cathow details many other system and version features, including a overview of key technologies for future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He also intermittantly takes questions from the audience.

 

 

RedHat 7 New Features: 

 

Red hat7 from albertspijkers

 

The enterprise cloud was a frequent topic of discussion among delegates and was also covered in a number of presentations. Shortly before the conference, Red Hat firmed up its plans for marketing its OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and presented four private and hybrid cloud products at the conference. An overview of these and other cloud products and services can be found in the presentation "Red Hat Cloud – Present, Future & Benefits".

 

In this Best of Session video from the 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, Bryan Che (senior director of product management in cloud operations at Red Hat), discusses what Red Hat is doing and is planning to do in the cloud. He details Red Hat strategy, our innovative portfolio, and the shape of cloud at Red Hat.

 

 

Here are the slides:

 

red hat_cloud_present_future_benefits from albertspijkers

 

 

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Modern file access ease Classic IT control 

 

File Access and Sharing

Novell Filr provides enterprise-level mobile file access and sharing. Novell Filr allows your users to access their home directories and network folders on any mobile device, as well as synchronize their files to their PC and Mac computers. They can also share the files internally and externally and comment on shared files.

Rather than move your data to the cloud, Filr lets you keep files and data where they are today and where they belong—in established and secure company file storage that already meets your regulatory requirements; your file servers.

Users love mobile file access and sharing, but most cloud solutions give the IT department a headache. Not Novell Filr.

 

 

 

Top Five Novell Filr Features That Will Make IT Smile:

 

·         IT doesn't have to provision new storage for Filr users. It's already there.

·         The backup and security systems that IT has built (and you've invested in) continue to protect your data on Filr.

·         Filr fits nicely into both Windows Server and Novell Open Enterprise Server environments.

·         IT can control file access and sharing so public material can spread while intellectual property stays put.

·         Filr is easy to use and will make users happy, so they'll stop bothering the helpdesk and be more productive.

Novell Filr will be released in the first half of 2013.

 

Novell filr customer slides richard lindstedt from GWAVA

 

 

 

 Top Ten

File and Networking Services

The Top Ten Differences That Let Novell® Filr Offer True Enterprise

File Sharing and Access

There are many vendors claiming to offer “Dropbox for the enterprise,” but true mobile enterprise file sharing demands more than a pithy slogan. It requires a high level of security and accountability, thorough controls and other features that empower IT to protect an organization’s interests. Novell® Filr is a different approach to the problem, one whose differences means it offers true enterprise file sharing and mobile access.

 

We don’t have to explain the downsides to popular cloud file sharing or mobile access solu­tions. We also don’t have to explain their appeal. IT departments everywhere want to give their users simple mobile access without opening their organization up to the many downsides of these cloud solutions. Novell Filr offers the same user experience but through a completely different design. Users get what they want, while IT retains control and corporate assets remain well protected in your data center.

 

Because it is built differently, Novell Filr:

1. Gives users access to their home directories. Novell Filr gives your users ac­cess to their home directories and network folders from any device or location. That means users can access a familiar environment where they can quickly get to work.

2. Won’t make you move files around. You don’t need to move files into a special folder or onto a specific piece of hardware to push them to mobile devices. IT does not need to provision new storage and users don’t need to create or recreate fold­ers. You already have everything set up nicely. Filr simply helps you share it across devices.

3. Always looks familiar. Not only does a user’s file structure look the same in Filr, but Filr itself looks the same no matter what device the user chooses. From phone to desktop to tablet, users see the same thing.

4. Lets users choose the device. Novell Filr works with Windows and Mac desk­tops and mobile devices running iOS, Android or BlackBerry. That means whether they’re on a Dell laptop, an iPhone, an Android tablet or on another device, users can connect to their files from wherever they roam.

5. Helps users control their workflow. When everyone shows up to a meeting with different versions of a file, nothing gets done. Filr eliminates the email file versioning syndrome and also allows users to leave comments for each other so everyone stays on the same page…or file.

6. Deploys easily. Filr is a virtual appliance-based solution, which makes installation and deployment easy and fast for IT. Adoption is easy for users as well. They can download the Filr clients and mobile device apps in just seconds.

7. Leverages your current data protection. Because Filr connects to users’ home directories and shared network folders, the data backup and security systems your IT department has built and you’ve invested in remain in force.

8. Doesn’t make you to buy extra storage. Yes, many cloud services give away a few gigs of storage, but for the amount of storage most organizations need, you have to pay. Why buy cloud storage when you already have a data center? With Filr you get mobile access without an increase in storage expenses.

9. Extends your current user access rules. Filr works with Active Directory or NetIQ® eDirectory^™ to extend the user access controls you’ve already developed. Whatever group and user access rights govern your home and network folders will also gov­ern those folders and files as users access them on their mobile devices.

10. Provides control over sharing. In addition to the access control already provided by your identity management system and file systems, Filr also gives you the ability to determine which files and folders your users can share either internally or externally.

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Cyber Attacks are more prominent and Criminal these days. Protect yourself wilt Citrix Netscaler 10!

A versatile cloud network for advanced app, desktop and data delivery services

Citrix NetScaler is the industry's most advanced cloud network platform. It enables the datacenter network to become an end-to-end service delivery fabric to optimize the delivery of all web applications, cloud-based services, virtual desktops, enterprise business apps and mobile services. It ensures the performance, availability and security SLAs for any service to any user, anywhere.

 

 

 

Download the NetScaler data sheet for a complete list of features and hardware options.

App delivery with advanced load balancing

NetScaler L4-7 load balancing brings 100% availability to all applications and services, while improving the efficiency of expensive server and network resources. Acceleration capabilities, such as AppCache, AppCompress and TCP optimizations, improve the user experience by making applications faster and more responsive. NetScaler load balancing capabilities include:

• Advanced load balancing – Comprehensive L4-7 traffic management for web servers and application servers in a single datacenter.
• Content and app caching – NetScaler AppCache provides high performance caching of both static content and dynamically generated web content.
• Database load balancing – Intelligent, SQL-aware load balancing of database servers to scale the data tier and deliver better database performance.

Next-generation security

NetScaler secures applications and networks from a wide variety of threats and attacks, prevents the leakage of confidential data, and protects sensitive communications with SSL and SSL VPN capabilities.

• Application Firewall – Blocks 100% of attacks targeting vulnerabilities in web and web services applications.
• Secure Remote Access – Fully integrated SSL VPN protects mobile users.
• FIPS Compliance – FIPS compliant appliances with 4.5+ Gbps of SSL throughput.

 

 

Built-in cloud connectivity

NetScaler transparently brings external and internal clouds together to maintain control and security even when apps move into the cloud. NetScaler acceleration capabilities can also extend into the cloud to optimize delivery of personalized app data to any user, anywhere.

• CloudBridge – Seamlessly extends the enterprise datacenter to third-party clouds with IPSec VPN security, proven WAN optimization and advanced networking to ensure full compatibility.
• CloudConnector – Leverage NetScaler datacenter benefits all the way to points-of-presence around the world to further speed app delivery.

Citrix TriScale technology brings cloud scale to enterprise networks

Citrix TriScale drives unprecedented network scalability, enabling IT teams to build enterprise cloud networks that can Scale Up performance 5x, Scale Out capacity by 32x, and Scale In consolidation by running up to 40 appliances in a single platform.

• Scale Up for cloud elasticity – Buy only what you need.
• Scale In for greater simplicity – Consolidate to end appliance sprawl.
• Scale Out for expanded capacity – Start small — grow forever.

Full application visibility and control

Meeting strict performance SLAs is greatly simplified with end-to-end monitoring that transforms network data into actionable business intelligence.

• NetScaler Insight Center – Provides a 360-degree view for all web application and virtual desktop traffic, with unmatched visibility for Citrix HDX .
• NetScaler ActionAnalytics – Integrated real-time performance analysis capabilities and adaptive policy controls for on-the-fly NetScaler policy optimization.

Centralized policy management

Application delivery and load balancing policies can be defined and managed using a simple declarative policy engine, with no programming expertise required.

• NetScaler Command Center – Comprehensive management and monitoring solution for centralized configuration and control of all NetScaler platforms.
• AppExpert Policy Management – Single policy management for all aspects of load balancing and app delivery, including pre-defined AppExpert templates for rapid deployment with popular enterprise business applications.

 

NetScaler Editions

Purpose-built with features and functions to meet any networking need

Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller appliances are available in three editions. Additionally, VPX virtual appliances are available in various configurations to meet any performance needs customers may have.

Download the NetScaler data sheet for a complete list of features and hardware options.

Standard Edition

Delivers 100 percent application availability with comprehensive L4-7 load balancing and optimizes performance to reduce expensive server and network costs.

Enterprise Edition

A powerful Web application delivery solution providing advanced traffic management and powerful application acceleration to provide the best application experience for users.

Platinum Edition

The industry’s most powerful web application delivery solution designed to deliver mission-critical applications with the best web application firewall security, fastest performance, and lowest cost.

 

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