Platform as a Service and Identity Management

In our previous meetup, we discussed the concepts of Infrastructure as a Service using OpenStack. But what if your needs go beyond infrastructure? What if you're looking for a complete environment for an application to run?

Many application teams have to wait a long time for infrastructure and environments to be provisioned. Today's focus on development agility typically needs fast turn around times. But from a Systems Administrator's perspective, everything must still be secured and maintainable. A Platform as a Service approach grants a development team the speed they require while still providing a Systems Administrator the control that is necessary.

PaaS allows you to automate the deployment, configuration, and management of application frameworks and dependencies. It allows for a very high density of applications on limited hardware, increases time to market and development agility. OpenShift is the PaaS solution from Red Hat. You can read more at www.openshift.com.

At this meetup, we'll also cover Identity Management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Identity Managment is a feature set specifically designed and integrated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and later to simplify identity management. This feature set is available free with your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. It allows you to expand your use of Linux while at the same time reducing costs, administrative load, and rising compliance levels by implementing central authentication, identity look-up service, and fine-grained access control.

If PaaS and Identity Management sound interesting, come out to this meetup and meet Matt Wells and Gary Lamperillo.

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Matt Wells

Matt has been working with Red Hat and other open source technologies since 1996. He dedicated his career to securing infrastructures as a contractor for the United States Government for 10 years before moving into the public sector at Allegiant Airlines as the Linux Architect. His work at Allegiant led to their adoption of OpenShift PAAS in both development and production. This gave Allegiant a dynamically scaling environment for both airline operations and sales. After leaving Allegiant and joining Mosaic451 Matt has taken on the task of redesigning the corporate infrastructure using a true hybrid cloud model. Additionally, he assisted Mosaic's vast customer base on infrastructure, virtualization, IPA, Satellite and many other technology needs. Matt has experience in architecting high capacity and secure infrastructures, developing more efficient operations and integrating cloud technologies into large organizations. Matt is a current Red Hat Certified Architect Level II and was a panelist in the "Optimizing Infrastructures with Red Hat Satellite" session at the 2013 Red Hat Summit.

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Gary Lamperillo

Gary Lamperillo is a Principal Middleware Solutions Architect at Red Hat. On a day to day basis, he mostly works with Tech companies from the Bay Area and Media, Entertainment and Gaming companies in the South West looking to take innovations from Open Source to build Products and Solutions that meet their Business Objectives. With the help of Red Hat's Premier Cloud and Middleware Product Portfolio, Gary has helped Customers meet these Business Objectives while improving Business Processes, Development and IT Operations at a lower cost point in the initial roll outs and onto through Maintenance. His Specialties include Platform as a Service (PaaS), Business Process Management, Mobile/Web Frameworks and Enterprise Integrations.