We’ll still have plenty of great food and local brews, games, and live music by Alter Ego. New location details are below:

Royale
279 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Buses will depart starting at 7:30 pm for Royale from the Boylston Street lower level entrance of the Hynes Convention Center.  Buses will return to the Hynes Convention Center starting at 10:00 pm.

Don’t worry – the Pub Crawl is still happening, and we will hand out details on a few new locations at Royale this evening.  IBM will be providing ponchos and umbrellas for the Pub Crawl.

Please listen and look for more updates on the mobile app and during sessions. If you have any questions at all, please stop by the Summit 2013 Information/Registration Desk and we will be happy to help. We’ll see you tonight!

Paul Cormier, Red Hat executive vice president and president of products and technologies, detailed the future of business and IT in his Wednesday morning Red Hat Summit keynote. He also outlined some “game-changing” products that are being announced here at Red Hat Summit. “Today, every major infrastructure initiative is based on an open source project,” Cormier said. “Think about how different it is than 10 years ago.”

Business and IT are under pressure to innovate. IT must evolve to support new business opportunities. Business is under huge pressure to not only solve problems, but to innovate rapidly—almost immediately. And the only way to do this, Cormier says, it through open technology.

“The cloud would not be here without Linux® and open source software,” Cormier said. “You’ll hear me say that a lot today because it’s true.” We must find a way to bridge the gap between business’ need to provide new ideas and innovation, and the pressure on IT to deliver new services while continuing to do their “day job.” The only way, according to Cormier, is through open innovation.

Being open is not about just seeing source code. You must have open development processes. Interoperability. Shareable resources. Unified management. All this adds up to a true open source development project. And no single person, company, or small group can do it alone.

“Today’s problems can’t be solved by one company,” Cormier said. “This is why open source is thriving.”

Red Hat is changing dramatically

In the last 12 months, Red Hat has made huge strides in putting together a truly open infrastructure stack. And it wouldn’t have been possible without taking some significant “bets,” according to Cormier.

Red Hat’s three big bets:

1. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 was a “bet the company” move in 2003. Red Hat changed the model overnight, and, according to Cormier, we “stopped the madness of closed technology.”

2. Red Hat middleware – Red Hat acquired JBoss middleware. “We did this for one reason: we wanted a strong community for developers (built for, and by, developers),” Cormier said. “At Red Hat, development always goes back to the community. It’s in our DNA.”

3. Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization® – Cormier said Red Hat’s best engineers told him to use KVM, and Red Hat acquired Qumranet so Red Hat could invest in both the community and the product. “Cloud could not exist today without Linux and KVM. Take that to the bank,” Cormier said.

He also outlined how Red Hat has changed, pointing to significant product developments over the last 12 months:
- Launched open hybrid cloud, a practical road map to deliver next-generation infrastructure—from application development, to Infrastructure-as-a-Service, to Platform-as-a-Service
- Backed open hybrid cloud with management by acquiring Manage IQ
- Acquired Gluster storage solution
- Brought OpenShift by Red Hat to the enterprise
- Created an OpenStack platform for developers

Cormier closed by announcing the availability of two new Red Hat products—Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and OpenShift Online—and by reminding the audience that the future has never been so open.

Runners gathered in the gray drizzle in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, and joined different pace groups at the race start. The route took them from the Hynes Convention Center, through the tree-lined Commonwealth Avenue Mall to the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, and back to the Haynes entrance. Among the participants was Red Hat CEO and avid runner, Jim Whitehurst, who promptly finished the 5k, turned around, and greeted fellow runners as they returned to the Hynes.

The race is over, but you can still give to The One Fund Boston by visiting OneFundBoston.org.

Midokura’s flagship product, MidoNet, virtualizes the network stack for cloud platforms. MidoNet is a distributed, decentralized, multi-layer software-defined virtual network solution specifically designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Midokura’s approach not only adds automation that significantly reduces the human cost (OPEX) of managing the network, but also impacts the overall economics of cloud computing (CAPEX) by simplifying network requirements.

Midokura Exhibit At-A-Glance

• What: OpenStack Partner Pavilion at Red Hat Summit
• When: June 11 – 14, 2013
• Where: John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston
• Booth Number: 7 OS

Connect with Midokura
To schedule one-on-one meetings with Midokura at the Red Hat Summit, contact midokura@kulesafaul.com. Follow the company on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/midokura.

About Midokura
Midokura is a global startup focused on network virtualization. Founded in 2010, the team has a pedigree including Amazon and Google, and has spent more than two years building MidoNet, a complete overlay network virtualization solution that integrates with cloud platforms such as OpenStack. Midokura has offices in San Francisco, Tokyo and Barcelona, and is on the web at http://www.midokura.com.

Media Contact
Cathy Wright
Kulesa Faul, Inc.
650-340-1985
cathy@kulesafaul.com

By collaborating with Red Hat through the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, Kinvey makes it possible for enterprises to use Kinvey’s Data Link connectors to securely mobilize data while Red Hat OpenStack makes it easier to manage. Kinvey’s patent-pending Data Link technology helps security-conscious enterprises connect to legacy data systems like Salesforce.com and Oracle. Together, Kinvey and Red Hat OpenStack can help your business securely deliver critical CRM data to the pocket of an employee via personal mobile devices.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Red Hat OpenStack and Kinvey integration, stop by Kinvey’s booth in the Partner Pavilion during the Red Hat Summit.

1. Allows users to solve their own problems
2. Gets vendors to work together
3. Focuses on continuous improvement

Why is this important today? Whitehurst says it’s because technology exists to support open innovation. In fact, he believes your technology choice is actually your innovation choice. And if you choose a proprietary, or closed, solution, you’re committing your business and resources to that solution for at least three years. Choosing an infrastructure solution isn’t like ordering from a Chinese menu, Whitehurst says. You’re actually choosing your businesses’ innovation model.

He made the case for open source technology and the cloud by stating that beyond Microsoft Azure, there isn’t a cloud computing model that’s not built on open source software.

In closing, Whitehurst reminded us all that we’re not attendees at Red Hat Summit—we’re participants.

“Innovation works when we collaborate, share ideas, and make connections,” Whitehurst said. “If it’s not here with these people, then when is it?”

When asked about his reaction to Whitehurst’s keynote, Red Hat Summit attendee Pankaj Gautam from Macys.com said, “I heard what I expected to hear from Red Hat regarding the power of open source technology.” He added that it’s difficult to get projects rolling with proprietary technology at Macys.com. He also thinks Red Hat solutions are the “direction we have to go” to innovate more quickly.

1. Head left out of the Hynes Convention Center on Boylston Street
2. Turn right on Hereford Street
3. Turn right on Commonwealth Ave (take path down middle)
4. Head down Commonwealth Ave until you reach the Boston Public Garden and Arlington Street
5. Turn left on Arlington Street and head towards the river
6. Take bridge and head left onto the path along the river
7. Run along the water to Massachusetts Avenue bridge
8. Take Massachusetts Avenue bridge to Newbury Street
9. Turn left on Newbury Street
10. Turn right on Exeter Street
11. Turn right on Boylston Street and head back to Hynes Convention Center to finish

We’re excited to have some of our Red Hat Summit sponsors presenting in the Partner Theater this week. Check out the full session schedule below:

Tuesday, June 11

• 7:00-7:30 pm – The Big Data Dilemma, Peter Thawley, VP/GM Global Database Solutions, SAP

Wednesday, June 12

• 12:00-12:20 pm – Enabling Business Critical Applications in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Environments, Stefan Kwiatkowski
  Senior Solutions Architect, Symantec
• 12:30-12:50 pm – Evolving Enterprise Identity: From the Datacenter to Cloud and Mobile, Brian Durkin, Senior Systems Engineer, Centrify

• 1:00-1:20 pm – Back Up Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Clusters for Big Data and Red Hat Storage, Lanai Bayne, VP Business Development, SEP Software
• 1:30-1:50 pm – Apache Hadoop, the Perfect App for OpenStack, Himanshu Bari, Sr. Product Manager, HortonWorks
• 6:00-6:20 pm – Taming the Leviathan: Using Riak to Harden Your Data Infrastructure, Weston Jossey, Infrastructure Engineer at Tapjoy, Basho Technologies
• 6:30-6:50 pm – Running Sybase ASE and IQ on Red Hat Enterprise Linux – Special Considerations and Configuration Options, Chris Brown, Senior Technical Evangelist, SAP
• 7:00-7:20 pm – Demystifying Multi-Tenant Network Automation via Red Hat OpenStack, Bill Erdman, Director, Technology Solution Manager, Arista Networks

Thursday, June 13

• 12:00-12:20 pm – Network Server I/O and Building Scalable Red Hat OpenStack Clouds, Bruce Tolley, Vice President, Solutions and Outbound Marketing, Solarflare
• 12:30-12:50 pm – Faster Time to Cloud: Fuel for Red Hat OpenStack Deployment Automation, David J. Easter, Product Line Manager, Mirantis; Roman Alekseenkov,  Director of Engineering, Mirantis
• 1:00-1:20 pm – The Network for OpenStack, Somik Behera, Product Manager, VMware
• 1:30-1:50 pm – IT Configuration, Deployment and Orchestration with Ansible, Michael DeHaan, CTO, AnsibleWorks