Red Hat: a systems and identity management strategy in the making

Abstract

Two years ago Red Hat' s approach to systems management as well as identity and security management issues was unclear. Now the situation has both evolved and stayed the same.

Table of Contents

• The Ovum view
• The Ovum view
• SWOT analysis
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats
• Systems management strategy
• Red Hat can, and should, do better
• Systems management offerings
• Content distribution systems and systems management offerings
• Red Hat Network (RHN) manages Linux
• JBoss Operations Network (JON) manages JBoss middleware
• RHCC reaches beyond Red Hat - but is on its way out
• Basic offerings (too) slowly opening up
• Slowly converging via open source
• Lacking a strong centre of gravity
• JON will eventually take over RHN
• Project RHQ, February 2008: the foundation
• Project Jopr, October 2008: the core product
• Project Spacewalk, June 2008: will not stop Satellite from (eventually) becoming extinct
• Virtualisation management
• The final frontier
• A mixed bag of technologies
• Strategy in the making
• Technology and product mix
• The libvirt API
• The oVirt open source project
• RHEV-V4S
• SOA governance
• Muddle on top, knowledge deep down
• SOA-related open source projects
• DNA: based on metadata management technology
• Guvnor: from rules to SOA assets
• Overlord: bringing the open source community to SOA governance
• Identity and security
• The same problems as in systems management
• IAM: A new beginning
• Based on the FreeIPA/RHE-IPA offering
• For Linux automation as well as IAM
• A partnership programme to come
• From Red Hat Directory Server to RHE-IPA
• From solution to product
• Additional functionality: identity now, policy and audit later
• Identyx: from NIS to RHE-IPA
• Linux- and Unix-centric
• JBoss identity
• Security
• Linux security
• JBoss security
• Open source effort