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The Future of Software
Delivery in Enterprise IT
February 25, 2015
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Agenda
▪ Housekeeping
▪ The Big Picture: Deliver Faster!
▪ Accelerating Time-to-Market Without Boiling The
Ocean
▪ 1 + 1 = 3: How Apprenda & XebiaLabs Help
▪ Q & A
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Housekeeping
▪ This webinar is being recorded
▪ Links to the slides and the recording will be made
available after the presentation
▪ You can post questions via the GoToWebinar Control
Panel
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Presenters
Matt Ammerman
VP of Client Services, Apprenda
▪ Co-founder of Apprenda
▪ Runs Apprenda’s Client Services – including CloudRISE consulting &
implementation PaaS accelerator practice
▪ Adjunct Professor teaching Cloud Computing in NY
▪ Regular code camp and conference speaker
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About Apprenda
▪ Apprenda is a software layer that transforms existing private and/or
public infrastructure into a self-service policy controlled platform for
developers
▪ Apprenda helps you build better cloud apps faster by decoupling
developers’ dependence on IT for application deployment – the
promise of PaaS
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Presenters
Andrew Phillips
VP Products for XebiaLabs
▪ Lots of enterprise software development on high-performance systems
▪ Been on both sides of the “Dev…Ops” fence
▪ Active open source contributor and committer
▪ Regular meetup, conference etc. presenter
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About XebiaLabs
▪ We build software to support DevOps and Continuous Delivery at scale…
▪ …to accelerate your Business
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The Big Picture: Software Defined Enterprise
▪ Every business is an IT business
− Known as “Software-defined Enterprise”, even traditionally brick and mortar business is becoming
software based
▪ Customers demand that you deliver new features faster whilst maintaining high
levels of quality
▪ If you don’t, your competitor probably will
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The Big Picture: Deliver Faster!
Exciting times:
▪ New methods of providing IT infrastructure and runtime platforms: Cloud,
virtualization, Agile, Continuous Delivery, Devops etc.
▪ Microservices and IoT are changing the way applications are developed
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AcceleratingTime-to-MarketWithout BoilingThe Ocean
▪ How should the enterprise respond?
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AcceleratingTime-to-MarketWithout BoilingThe Ocean
▪ Easy! Get rid of everything.
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▪ Start with a clean slate.
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▪ Build an exciting new future.
AcceleratingTime-to-MarketWithout BoilingThe Ocean
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▪ Er…not really. That only works in dreams. The truth is, change is incremental
and enterprises cannot abandon current investments.
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Challenge in a complex enterprise environment:
▪ How to leverage existing investment in cloud, virtualization and other infra
technologies?
▪ How to integrate existing applications and services in your new patterns and
processes?
▪ How to support a diverse set of teams and applications at different stages of
delivery maturity?
▪ How to identify the biggest bottlenecks so that improvements and investments can
be targeted to where they are needed most?
▪ How to measure changes to track whether things are actually improving and
demonstrate value for the investment?
AcceleratingTime-to-MarketWithout BoilingThe Ocean
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AcceleratingTime-to-MarketWithout BoilingThe Ocean
▪ Evolution, not Revolution – incremental and strategic change
▪ No Ocean Boiling
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1 + 1 = 3: How Apprenda & XebiaLabs Help
▪ Apprenda: leading enterprise Platform as a Service for private and public
(hybrid) cloud. Apprenda’s platform provides:
▪ …developers with the toolsets and runtime to rapidly develop, iterate, and
launch custom applications into sanctioned production environments
▪ …IT with the necessary controls to let developers deploy while maintaining
conformance with policy and regulation, both internal and external
▪ XL Release: Enterprise Continuous Delivery Management product. XL Release:
▪ …supports the release process you have today, allowing you to get started
instantly
▪ …while providing a seamless, metrics-driven improvement path to a more
automated delivery strategy tomorrow
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1 + 1 = 3: How Apprenda & XebiaLabs Help
“Move from diverse infrastructure and lengthy release
cycles today to a flexible enterprise platform and
accelerated feature delivery tomorrow”
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What Does Apprenda Offer?
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What Does Apprenda Offer?
▪ A platform for custom .NET and Java applications
− Leverage existing investments in Windows and Linux
▪ Additional capabilities and services for SaaS applications
▪ Development tools for seamless integration with developer workflows and release
technologies such as XL Release
− Deployment target for the entire SDLC, including CI
− RESTful APIs, IDE integrations, command line, portals
▪ Elastic scaling (manual, automatic, scheduled) for deployed application workloads
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What Does Apprenda Offer?
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What Does Apprenda Offer?
▪ Policy controls for IT to enforce application compatibility
− Application Placement Policies
− Bootstrap Policies
− Custom Properties (meta data) for infrastructure tagging, etc.
▪ Single lens through which IT can view application portfolio and infrastructure
utilization
▪ Standardization for Enterprise Architecture
− Enforce best practices from development through release and operations
▪ Add-On model for expanding services offered by the platform
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What Does Apprenda Offer?
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What Does XL Release Offer?
▪ Enterprise Continuous Delivery Management product
▪ “Describe, execute and improve all the steps required to get your apps from Dev
to Prod”
▪ Get started immediately with the release process you have today…
▪ Provides a seamless, metrics-driven improvement path to a more automated
delivery strategy tomorrow
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What Does XL Release Offer?
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What Does XL Release Offer?
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What Does XL Release Offer?
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What Does XL Release Offer?
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What Does XL Release Offer?
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How Do Apprenda & XL Release WorkTogether?
Apprenda + XL Release
=
“Continuous Delivery across Existing Infrastructure”
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How Do Apprenda & XL Release WorkTogether?
Deliver faster to your end-users
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How Do Apprenda & XL Release WorkTogether?
1 + 1 = 3:
▪ Deploy into an dev, test, or prod runtime environment automatically or with a
single click with Apprenda
▪ Ensure corporate policy & IT regulatory conformance across environments
▪ Control and accelerate the flow of your features through the Apprenda-provided
Dev, QA, UAT etc. environments with XL Release, all the way to production
▪ Start with the infrastructure and process you have today, evolve and improve in
a data-driven manner
▪ No "boiling the ocean", no niche solutions
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How Do Apprenda & XL Release WorkTogether?
1 + 1 = 3:
▪ Enable advanced application delivery in an incremental manner
▪ Leverage existing investments and support all teams and applications
▪ Flexible tools architected to meet enterprise needs at the largest scale
▪ Out-of-the-box support for a huge array of technologies to remove barriers to
adoption
▪ Open interfaces for easy extensibility and integration
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How Do Apprenda & XL Release WorkTogether?
Deliver faster to your end-users
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