{"id":12702,"date":"2019-08-07T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/feedback-on-the-emea-red-hat-partner-conference-2019-in-prague\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T07:06:11","slug":"feedback-on-the-emea-red-hat-partner-conference-2019-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/feedback-on-the-emea-red-hat-partner-conference-2019-in-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback on the EMEA Red Hat Partner Conference 2019 in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I attended the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference<\/a> for the first time. The Red Hat<\/a> Conference took place in Prague from June 25th to 27th. If you are interested in Open Source technologies and in Red Hat, feel free to read this personal feedback on trends at Red Hat and in the IT sector.
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Stronger Together!<\/h2>\n

Representing dbi services<\/a> at the Partner Conference in Prague was a great opportunity for us as a Red Hat Advanced Partner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About 850 people attended this amusing event! Interactions with the Red Hat Community were very interesting and relaxed. Is it because of the Open Source atmosphere? The organization, catering, and location were great also! Many thanks to the organizers !<\/p>\n

Also a sincere thank you to all Swiss Red Hat and Tech Data contacts at the event for welcoming and assisting Swiss Partners during the 3 days. Everything went extremely professional thanks to Leonard Bodmer<\/a> (Country Manager Red Hat Switzerland), Richard Zobrist<\/a> (Head of Partner & Alliances Red Hat), Maja Zurovec<\/a> (Account Manager Partner & Alliances Red Hat), Sandra Maria Sigrist<\/a> (Tech Data), and Daria Stempkowski<\/a> (Tech Data). Many thanks to all of you, also for the warm and relaxed evening at Villa Richter<\/a> at the foot of Prague’s castle !<\/p>\n

We are Stronger Together<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

All about automation, integration, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud<\/h2>\n

With this 3 days Partner Conference, Red Hat proposed a bride agenda of Breakouts, Exams, Hackathon, Keynotes, Labs, and an Open Innovation Lab. I mostly attended sessions where Red Hat partners and customers had the opportunity to give feedbacks on their experience with Red Hat products. Some of the sessions and keynotes were remarkable.<\/p>\n

Red Hat Middleware Roadmap<\/h3>\n

The “Red Hat Middleware Roadmap” sessions (Part 1 & 2) with Rich Sharpels were a good opportunity to learn more about productivity (automation, integration, runtimes), reliability (security, reduced complexity), and flexibility (containers for scaling, cloud, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud) with OpenShift. With these 2 presentations you also got informed on the iPaaS <\/a>which is a new private integration Platform-as-a-Service offering to provide cloud-based services for application integration and messaging. The goal is here to strengthen collaboration within the business teams (devOps) thanks to Managed Integration + OpenShift Dedicated. Rich Sharpels summarizes the benefits of the iPaaS with: “cloud services and packages where customers don’t have to administrate anything!”<\/p>\n

Ansible Partner Enablement Offerings<\/h3>\n

G\u00fcnter Herold from Red Hat and Daniel Kn\u00f6zinger from Open Networks Austria held the session “Ansible Partner Enablement Offerings”. This session was focusing on advantages of automating tasks with Ansible for reducing mistakes, errors, and complexity because “Ansible is the universal language for the whole IT team”. With Ansible, “start small and develop” .<\/p>\n

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Best Practices for Working with Red Hat Support<\/h3>\n

Who wanted to get informed on “Best Practices for Working with Red Hat Support” attended the session with Caroline Baillargeon, Leona Meeks, and Peter Jakobs from Red Hat. This presentation gave the opportunity to learn and discuss on:<\/p>\n