VMware's strategic focus areas include re-thinking end-user computing, modernizing application development, and evolving infrastructure. The document discusses trends in applications moving to cloud-ready frameworks and data fabrics. It introduces Cloud Foundry as an open platform as a service that allows deploying and scaling applications across clouds simply and without vendor lock-in. Key benefits of Cloud Foundry include being open source, simple to use, and providing choice of frameworks, services, and cloud infrastructures.

1. VMware
Cloud Application Platform
Alexandre Vasseur, Staff Systems Engineer, VMware
March 2012
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2. VMware’s Three Strategic Focus Areas
Re-think End-User Computing
Modernize Application Development
Existing Apps New Enterprise Apps SaaS Apps
Evolve the Infrastructure
Existing Datacenters Public Cloud Services
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3. What’s happening with applications today?
Frameworks are what really matter
• Developer productivity and innovation
• Reduce time to market
New application types
• Mobile, Social, SaaS
• Apps released early and often
Data intensive
• Emerging requirements: elasticity, multi-cloud
• Web orientation drives exponential data volumes
Deployed on virtual and cloud infrastructures
• Virtualization, Cloud, PaaS
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4. Existing Applications & New Applications
Move to modern New data fabric
frameworks and technologies
cloud-ready and common
runtimes deployment models
Runtime Data
PaaS
Move to a cloud era
application provisioning & platform
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5. “I just want to deploy my code…”
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6. Virtualized Data Center, Virtual Data Center and as-a-Service
VMware vCloud Director + Application Director
Organization: Marketing Organization: Finance
Users & Policies Organization VDCs Catalogs Users & Policies Organization VDCs Catalogs
Provider Virtual Datacenters
(Bronze)
(Silver)
(Gold)
VMware vCenter Server
Resource Pools Datastores Port Groups
VMware vSphere
Secure Private Cloud
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7. Built a « PaaS » as VMs as a Service
§ VM-centric template-driven self-provisionning
• Middleware pre built in each VM
• Bring your own legacy (P2V2C)
• Add your own
devops
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8. Built a « PaaS » with High Customization and IT/Arch control
§ Model-driven Architecture self-provisionning
• Catalog of Middleware, Application artefacts and OS
• Simple to highly complex and custom N-tier Architectures
• Bring your own process (CMDB, ITIL, cloud orchestration)
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9. PaaS in a box?
$
vmc
target
<any
cloud>
$
vmc
push
<my-­‐app>
>
bind
services?
Yes
$
vmc
instances
<my-­‐app>
+100
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10. The Open
Platform as a Service
Deploy and scale applications in
seconds, without locking yourself
into a single cloud
pen,
le, O lable
Simp , Sca
Fle xible
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11. Cloud Foundry open Platform as a Service
The PaaS of choice for the Cloud era
Simple
• Let’s developers focus on their code and not wiring middleware
Open
• Avoid lock-in to specific cloud, frameworks or service
• Completely open source from day one
Flexible and Scalable
• Self service, deploy and scale your applications in seconds
• Extensible architecture to “digest” future cloud innovation
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12. Cloud Foundry open PaaS - Choice of frameworks
OSS community
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13. Cloud Foundry open PaaS - Choice of application services
vFabric
Postgres
Data
Services
vFabric
RabbitMQTM Msg
Services
Other
Services
Additional partners
services …
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14. Cloud Foundry open PaaS - Choice of clouds
A void
Lo ck-in
Data Private
Services
Clouds
Msg Public
Services
Clouds
Partners
.COM
Other Micro
Services Clouds
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15. Multi-cloud flexibility is critical to your long-term success
§ Make use of both public and private clouds without rewriting your
applications
§ Protect against vendor lock-in
§ Meet different compliance and geographical needs
§ Accommodate peak loads while optimizing costs
§ Manage your growth and changing needs over time
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16. Cloud Foundry: Making multi-cloud a reality
Choice of Private Choice of Public Choice of Cloud
Cloud Distributions Cloud Providers Infrastructure
.COM
Bare metal
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17. CloudFoundry.COM - Multi-tenant PaaS operated by VMware
CloudFoundry.COM (beta)
Runtimes & Frameworks
Services
vCenter / vSphere
Infrastructure
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18. Micro Cloud FoundryTM – Industry first downloadable PaaS
Micro Cloud Foundry
Runtimes & Frameworks
Services
Your Laptop/PC
Single VM instance of
Cloud Foundry
that runs on a developer’s
MAC or PC
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19. CloudFoundry.ORG - Community open-source project
CloudFoundry.ORG
Your Infrastructure
Download Setup Setup Deploy Behind
Code Environment Scripts Firewall
Apache2
license
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20. Cloud Foundry – Conceptual Architecture
Developers App Traffic
Cloud Foundry
Router
Management &
Automation Application Instance cv
Monitoring
Application Instance
User Apps
Application Instance
Services Execution Environment
Datacenter or IaaS Cloud
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21. VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform
Developer Frameworks
+
Messaging Elastic Data Elastic SQL Data-as-a-Service
Application Services (RabbitMQ) (GemFire) (SQLFire) (Data Director)
+
Java Runtime Web Runtime DB
(tc Server) (ERS) (vPostgres)
Platform as a Service Provisionning & Automation
(Application Director)
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22. Key takeaways
§ PaaS is the application platform for the Cloud era
§ Cloud Foundry is the simple, open and flexible PaaS of choice
§ What is Your “PaaS” now and tomorrow ?
§ What is Your path to PaaS ?
http://www.vmware.com/go/vfabric
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