MRG Presentations and Videos from the Summit

I'm back from Chicago from another great Red Hat Summit.  I have uploaded my two presentations from the 2009 Red Hat Summit online:

• Red Hat Enterprise MRG Update
• Building and Leveraging Compute Clouds with Red Hat Enterprise MRG

As an additional treat, you can also view videos of one of my sessions, as well as our CTO Brian Stevens' keynote, which highlighted cloud computing with MRG and other technologies.  I can't link to the videos directly, but you can find them at

• http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/highlights/ 

Brian Stevens' keynote is on the first tab.  My MRG presentation is on the Summit Sessions tab.

Finally, you can watch a demo video of cloud computing with Red Hat Enterprise MRG.  In this video, I bridge and aggregate three different clouds together (a local render cloud, an internal cloud provisioned by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Amazon EC2) into one seamless render cloud for film rendering.  This video created quite a buzz at the Summit, so enjoy!

Red Hat Enterprise MRG at the Red Hat Summit

Next week is the Red Hat Summit in Chicago.  We'll be featuring Red Hat Enterprise MRG there prominently:

• Building and Leveraging Compute Clouds with Red Hat Enterprise MRG
  
• MRG Messaging: A Programmer's Overview 
• Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid) Update and Roadmap
• A booth demonstrating cloud computing with MRG
• A special demo during our CTO Brian Stevens' keynote on cloud computing

I'll be at the Summit presenting the cloud computing and MRG update sessions.  I hope to see you there!

(The direct links to the sessions at the summit web site don't load that well due to the fancy javascript on that site.  You can go to http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/agenda/tracks/ and find the tracks manually to get a much better view of the info)

The Easy Way to Install TweetDeck on Linux and Work Around Error #5100

I tried installing TweetDeck on my Fedora Linux laptop and ran into an Error #5100.  I did a Google search, and it turns out that many other people have run into this error and solved it by doing things like downloading Adobe AIR and TweetDeck, and installing these files manually as root.

I found a much easier way: run FireFox (or whatever browser you use) as root, go to http://tweetdeck.com/, and click the "Download Now" link.  Everything works!

Update:  according to smmehadi at Adobe, installing xterm first is the truly easy and recommended way to solve this issue.  http://www.adobe.com/products/air/systemreqs/

MRG In The Open Source Cloud Computing Forum

Red Hat is hosting an online event, the Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, on July 22, 2009.  Matt Farrellee from the MRG team will be presenting on how Condor, the Grid component in MRG, helps with building and adopting clouds during the 5th session at 11:30am.

The event is free also features lots of other great sessions.  Read more about it here and then register to attend!

Introducing QpidComponents.org

We've launched a new Web site, http://qpidcomponents.org.  This site features additional components and tools for enterprise AMQP messaging that we have developed for Apache Qpid.  We also ship productized and supported versions of these components and tools in Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

Notably, QPidComponents.org includes a high-speed persistence library and management tools.  Why don't we just include these components in the QPid project?  One major reason is that they're licensed under open source licenses other than the Apache license.  For example, because the persistence library tightly ties to Linux, which is licensed under the GPL, we can't license that code under the Apache license.

Check out http://qpidcomponents.org if you use QPid!

Carl Trieloff Keynote about AMQP/MRG at SIFMA 2009

SIFMA's Technology Management Conference & Exhibit is perhaps Wall St's biggest such annual event.  Carl Trieloff will deliver this morning's opening keynote, followed by Stanley Young, the CEO of NYSE Technologies.

Carl's talk is on Building Financial Use Cases Directly into Messaging Software for Better Performance and Productivity and will cover work we've done in AMQP and Red Hat Enterprise MRG to provide a leading messaging platform and ecosystem.

MRG Realtime Slides From HP Tech Forum 2009

I've posted online my slides from my presentation today at the HP Technology Forum and Expo about Realtime Performance with Red Hat Enterprise MRG and HP Systems. 

You can download them here.