During the final keynote of the Red Hat Summit 2016, held at the Moscone N & W in San Francisco, the lineup of guests included a woman dedicated to helping women learn to become developers through open source, along with industry heavy hitters from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and Microsoft Corp. The guest list proves that open source is truly being embraced universally.

Girl Develop It — Leveling the playing field for women developers

Corinne Warnshuis, executive director at Girl Develop It, was first on stage, and she thanked participants of the Red Hat Summit’s 5k run for helping to raise $3,500 dollar for her organization.

Girl Develop It is a nonprofit organization that is providing opportunities for women who have the desire to learn web and software development. The organization was founded six years ago in 2010, and it currently has chapters in 54 cities, with 67,00 members and over 1,000 thousand students a month.

According to Warnshuis, Girl Develop It is committed to a welcoming environment that is judgment-free. There are students supporting each other with a teacher leading a classroom environment and with TAs for extra support.

Committed to teaching open source

“We are committed to open source, and our curriculum is based on open source,” said Warnshuis. She expressed the need for the students to contribute to open source because most employers want to see examples of projects instead of a resume.

The organization also has an open-source mentorship program that consists of 10 mentors and 10 mentees who work on open-source projects together. The students are required to meet with the mentors weekly and complete a project within three months.

Warnshuis is looking to expand with more chapters and encourages women to learn more about the organization.

HPE and Red Hat: Making transformation happen

Next up was Randy Meyer, VP and GM of Mission Critical Systems at HPE. He began by exploring the disruption in the market by companies such as Amazon, Apple Pay and Netflix. “Everything we do is being disrupted by players we never even heard about five years ago,” Meyer stated.

He went on to say that the consumers are the drivers of that change. “And it’s a mindset change. It’s about speed, it’s about different ways of doing things, and it’s about how do you turn an idea into revenue and profit in record time,” he maintained.

HPE’s four pillars of transformation

Meyer said that this change is causing businesses to transform in different ways. He talked about HPE’s four pillars of transformation with the audience.

• Transformation – moving the enterprise infrastructure to the hybrid cloud.
• Protect your digital enterprise – Easing the ever-growing threat to your infrastructure.
• Empower the data-driven organization – running business faster and generating new ideas that create profitability.
• Enable workplace productivity – making technology available anywhere and anytime.

IT the new value creator

Meyers explained all the new challenges that IT faces today. He talked about time being the new currency and how quickly applications need to be deployed into production.

“We call it DevOps, but in reality it is taking time and turning it into money,” Meyers insisted. He continued by saying, “Always on/global is expected.”

IT is personal and about getting something done in real time. He sees apps as services that can be deployed rapidly but cannot be one size fits all.

Open source helping to build scale

With the one-size-doesn’t-fit-all workload, Meyer said that defining the business problem and finding the best deployment in a software-defined manner is the catalyst for HPE’s partnership with the open source community because the flexibility is important and all things must be unified.

He closed by saying the partnership between Red Hat, Inc. and HPE are making these things happen.

Microsoft: Exploring the Uuniverse with SQL Server

When you work for Microsoft, you have access to the world’s largest telescope, and the Universe is at your fingertips. Joseph Sirosh, corporate VP of the Data Group at Microsoft, was the last presenter, and he initiated his presentation by talking about the world’s largest telescope, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which produced the most detailed three-dimensional maps of the Universe — with SQL Server at the heart of it all.

Sirosh noted this is considered the best databases on the planet and is the most used in astronomy. There are 280 million SQL queries and 4 million distinct users, 15, 000 of which are astronomers.

Tobias Ternström, principal project manager for SQL Server at Microsoft, joined Sirosh on stage to give a live demo of how SQL Server searches the Universe.

SQL Server on Linux

“The future of analytics is on an open-source platform,” stated Sirosh. He demonstrated the server’s benefits, explaining that it is the choice of open source because it integrates with any data, any intelligence base, any application and can be deployed anywhere. He also announced that SQL Server will now be running on Red Hat Linux.

Sirosh also talked about Azure and how it is the most open, comprehensive and trusted cloud. He displayed all the partners and technology companies that are part of the Azure cloud experience.

The Microsoft vision for open source

Microsoft’s vision for the future of the enterprise is that it will be in the cloud and on open-source technology. Data, cloud and intelligence will all be open leading to cloud source competition.

Watch the full keynote video below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the Red Hat Summit.

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