 that individuals can still get instructor support with. Along with that, we also have a certification for engineers. So engineers can go through a test and if they pass this test, then they are certified as infrastructure as a service. This is a hands-on test, so the candidate will have to perform certain objectives and it's not a multiple choice type of environment. And we offer this in a couple different ways. We offer it with our classes when people take a live class and we also offer it in a kiosk. So we have, I believe, 45 kiosks around the world and remote proctors that can monitor the exam. It's a two-hour exam and if you pass the EX210, then you have a certificate of expertise in infrastructure as a service. I'll be at the booth later, so if you have any questions about our training and if you'd like any more details on the content, I'll be more than happy to help you with that. And I'd like to give Hugo a few minutes to talk a little bit about our partner program and some of the software that we're certifying as part of OpenStack. This is on? All right. Hi everyone, thanks for coming. So Joe talked about what we're doing to certify people's skills. I'm going to talk about what Red Hat is doing to certify our partner products as well. So we have our certification strategy, it's kind of a dual prong. We want to make sure we support our customers by preparing the IT staff with the right skills. We also want to make sure we support the ecosystem by working with our partners and making sure the products are working well, everything in orchestration. So we've been in the IT business for a long time and promoting new technologies. We love what OpenStack is doing and how it's transforming the IT industry. And what we see, we're working with our customers that they have one fundamental question when it comes to adopting new technology and that's, does this work? So OpenStack is delivering on the promise of a virtualized data center, the operating system for the cloud, but customers want to know, has this stack been tested before? Because it's not sufficient to get the upstream and which everything is going to work well automatically out of the box. They want some assurance that somebody has kind of walked down this path before. And customers ask as well, okay, everything's fine. I get all the services. Is this fully supported? If I get my neutral infrastructure, my center infrastructure, is somebody going to be the one through to choke or somebody's going to be willing to take my support call and fix if something goes wrong? Now, question we get all the time is what are the best practices? How do I know that I'm configuring my environment correctly? How do I know that I'm taking full advantage of the infrastructure? And finally, how do I optimize it? No, it's great. I see that Ray has working with many partners. How do I make sure I'm deploying this in an optimal way? Now, the way we're addressing this is by having a certification program for our partners. So partners that are delivering components of OpenStack come to us and want to make sure we do the end-to-end testing. And what we call this is hardening the ecosystem. If you know a little bit about Rayhead's history, we work with Linux, the operating system, trying to harden it and make it fully supportable and enterprise-ready. We're trying to do the same for OpenStack. And we're working with our partners to validate and make sure that the solution is working well with Rayhead OpenStack technology. And I'll give you examples of some of the partners that we're working with today. And if you're a partner of us, if you're developing software and you join a partner network, we will give you access, early access to the software so you can be testing it ahead of time. So by the time it is released, your solution is fully supported. And something that's very important to us, we, our bloodline is the support and we make our business selling support to our customers. We're delivering open-source software, but at the end of the day, customers want the solution to be fully supported. And we work with our partners to establish support agreements. So if a customer has an issue and they have an escalation, we do the back-end coordination with these partners to make sure that we can jointly work to address that issue. And finally, the best practices in configuration guidelines. They have to be well-documented. So what we do is we have the certification program, partners come to us, and we give them an automated test suite so that they deploy their solution. And that solution could be neutron plug-in, it can be a sender driver. They test on our platform, they document the best practices, and then we list their product as certified on Red Hat. Now, these are some examples of the kind of documentation that's coming out of our program. We're very excited by being working with some of the leaders in the industry. And it's not just about doing the testing, it's about documented findings, and you can see these are kind of snapshots of the documents that are coming out of our program. You know, interesting stuff we're doing with vendors like Melanox, like NEC, like NetApp or Cisco. Now, as far as the roadmap, what we offer today is a certification program for whether you're providing a server to run as a compute node, or you're providing a plug-in for neutron, or you're providing a driver for sender. So today, you can go look at the list of certified components, and feel confident that the basic pieces, the building blocks for compute, networking and storage have been tested with our commercial implementation of OpenStack. Now, we had this for a while. We had it since we launched Grizzly. And for Havana, which is coming out, we have three new services that we can certify. We can certify vendors who provide a swift implementation. We provide the glance or the image service, and also we're working with vendors who provide extensions to neutron, like load balancing as a service, or firewall as a service. So what you're gonna be seeing over time is that we're gonna have a list of all of the partners that provide these pieces and these building blocks that we have engaged with and tested, validated, and generated based practices for. And this is a snapshot of some of the partners we're working with. It's just a partial list. These are vendors have already gone through that certification process. Some of these are hardware vendors who have hardware that is certified to run the OpenStack implementation. Some of these are network vendors. Some of these are storage vendors, right? And these are ones that we got into our grizzly release. We're working on a much bigger list of partners for the Havana release that's coming out soon. So what I would encourage you, if you're a partner and you wanna have your product be part of this ecosystem, please come to us. You can talk to me. I'm gonna hang around at the end of the session. And if you're a customer, it's okay to ask, has this been tested together, right? If I'm gonna deploy OpenStack and I want critical infrastructure like networking or storage or compute nodes, I wanna have some assurance that somebody has already done this. Somebody has taken the effort to generate the best practices and can guide me through the process. So please demand this from your OpenStack infrastructure as for assurance that not only has this been tested, but there's a support agreement with the partners so that you can deploy with confidence that your solution is gonna be fully supported and you can really call it enterprise ready, okay? So that's what we have today for you. Now I left some passports on the seats. What we have is we have a little contest going on. If you collect that and you can see some of the examples of the partners on that list. If you go to a partner's booths and you collect stamps and you turn that in at the red hat booth at the end, you can, I wanna make sure I said this correctly because our legal department does not allow me to say we're gonna have a raffle at the end. I think that's concerning gambling here in Hong Kong. So I can say there's gonna be a price while supplies last. So it's gonna be a drawing for interesting prices at the end, so please take one of these, go through our vendors booths, talk to them, ask them about OpenStack certification for red hat, get a stamp, turn it in our booth for red hat and then you have to be present to win. So I'd invite you to come and the date of the drawing is indicated on the passport, yeah? So enjoy the show, thank you for showing up and please stop by a red hat booth and feel free to talk to us more about certification. Yes, is there a question? I didn't hear that, sorry. 6,000 nodes deployed. I'm not sure, no, no, sorry. Sorry, any other questions, comments or not? Once I take off the mic, Joe and I will be talking here on the side if you wanna talk to us about either skill certification or what Joe talked about or software certification, you can talk to me, yes. Do we have any brochure for the certification? We have some stuff online. If you come by the booth, I can take you to the page and take you through it, all right? Any other questions? Actually I have a question for you, so I want you to tell me the name of one of our partners that we certified with. That's an easy, all right. All right, Melanox, yes. Thank you, sir. Ask a question. Let's see what they were paying attention. What is our new class? How many days is our new class? Oh, that's a trick question. Three days. Yeah, I don't know, there was two of them there. There was another one. All right, who else? I think it was a tie. Who was I? Who gave the right answer? Right here. All right, well, thanks again for joining us and enjoy the show. Thank you.