HyperForm enables organizations to automate their IT infrastructure and applications. This allows them to [1] deliver infrastructure and services faster, reducing wait times from weeks to minutes, [2] strengthen governance with consistent policy enforcement across clouds, and [3] lower costs through improved efficiency and utilization monitoring across hybrid cloud environments.

1. Enabling the Journey to Automation
By Amjad Afanah

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Applications
• Drive competitive advantage
• Enable new business
opportunity
IT Operations
DEMAND
• Faster delivery expectations
• Embrace DevOps while
enforcing security
The Business
RESULT
• Lower customer satisfaction
• Growing use of shadow IT
• Increased risk
• Missed opportunity
The move toward digital transformation

3. Benefits
HyperForm enables the journey to
automation so that you can deliver services
to your teams faster.
This journey has multiple entry points.
• You can start by moving towards an
automated, self-service provisioning
model to deliver infrastructure on any
cloud for IT efficiency, or
• by containerizing your existing
applications to turbocharge DevOps
HyperForm – Enabling the Journey to Automation
Physical Virtual Cloud
HyperForm
Self-Service
Policy-based Governance with Entitlements
Monitoring
CostMetering
Infrastructure
Services
App Container
Services
Custom
Services
18+ Clouds &
Platforms
Quotas &
Approvals
On-the-fly
Containerization
Service
Discovery
DBaaS, PaaS
Code Run
Plug-ins

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The High Cost of Manual VM Provisioning
• Long Waits
• Rising Costs
• Inconsistent Infrastructure
• Rapid Delivery
• Lower CapEx & OpEX
• Fewer Errors
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Infrastructure Automation
MANUAL VM PROVISIONING
Long waits. After a request is made, it
typically takes days or even weeks for IT to
deliver new infrastructure.
SELF-SERVICE PROVISIONING
Rising costs. Manual processes reduce IT
efficiency, while increased use of
infrastructure outside of IT’s control leads to
over-provisioning and overspending.
Manual Provisioning Can Take Days
or Even Weeks!!
Delivering Infrastructure Can Be
Done in Minutes not Weeks!
Rapid delivery. Self-provisioning for
business users means infrastructure is
delivered in minutes, not days, reducing the
likelihood of shadow IT.
Fewer errors. Reduces configuration errors
that are a natural consequence of manual
processes.
Inconsistent infrastructure. Poorly
executed manual tasks can lead to
configuration errors, requiring time-
consuming reworking.
Lower CapEx and OpEx. Eliminates
underutilization of VMs and improves IT
efficiency.

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Enabling Governance & Cost Metering
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• Loss of Control
• Weak Oversight
• Rising Costs
• Stronger Governance
• Lower CapEx and OpEx
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Governance, Entitlements, Approvals, & Cost Metering
MANUAL APPROVALS
Loss of control. The business turns to
unsanctioned infrastructure as a faster
alternative, at the expense of security,
governance, and visibility.
HIGH GOVERNANCE
Weak oversight. Manual enforcement of
granular entitlements and other security
policies leads to errors and inconsistencies
across clouds.
Strong governance.
• Users get automated policy enforcement
and a consistent workflow for
provisioning infrastructure on any cloud.
• Automatically enforces policies and
quotas that prevent the underutilization of
resources and insecure access policies.
Rising costs. Infrastructure cannot be
adequately monitored across clouds,
leading to overspending.
Lower CapEx and OpEx. Cohesive
utilization and expense monitoring means
you can see where to optimize for better
cost efficiency.

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Hybrid Cloud Management
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• Fractured Organizations
• Lack of Visibility
• Rising Costs
• IT Efficiency
• Holistic Management
• Lower CapEX and OpEX
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Hybrid Cloud Management
DISPARATE TOOLS
FOR CLOUD MANAGEMENT
Fractured organizations. You need to
appoint separate teams with varying skill
sets, tools, and operating processes to
manage multiple clouds.
CENTRALIZED
CLOUD MANAGEMENT
IT efficiency. Supervise all workloads using
a single interface.
Lack of visibility. Use of multiple
management tools impairs your ability to
oversee utilization and policy enforcement.
Rising costs. Infrastructure cannot be
adequately monitored across clouds,
leading to overspending.
Holistic management. A centralized
console enables you to manage resources,
workloads, and operations across any
cloud, ensuring secure use of public clouds.
Lower CapEx and OpEx. Cohesive
utilization and expense monitoring means
you can see where to optimize for better
cost efficiency.

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Life-Cycle Management
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• Manual Updates
Driven By IT
• Automated Life-Cycle
Management
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Managing Infrastructure & Apps Post-Provision
INITIAL PROVISIONING
Manual Updates by IT. Day-2 operations
end up being a major bottleneck for IT
teams struggling to manage infrastructure
and applications post-provision.
LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT
Full lifecycle management. Automates
downstream operations, lowering the cost to
apply patches, scale out resources, and
update configurations.

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Lift, Containerize & Shift Legacy Applications
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• Orphaned Legacy Apps
• Insufficient Automation
• Manual Service
Discovery
• Agility
• Portability
• Zero Learning Curve
• Ease of Integration
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Containerizing Legacy Applications
VIRTUALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE
Orphaned legacy apps. The cost of migration delays
efforts to modernize and migrate legacy apps to
lower-cost infrastructure.
CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS
Insufficient automation. Containers are designed to
improve application portability, but typically require
code changes and a long learning curve.
Agility. Eliminates IT bottlenecks and turbocharges
DevOps for rapid business innovation.
Portability. Automates the modernization of legacy
applications so they can run anywhere.
Manual service discovery. Services to aid
integration require additional effort and expertise to
containerize.
Zero learning curve. Requires no app code changes;
performs on-the-fly containerization.
Ease of integration. Automates service discovery for
no-effort integration with any external service.

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Dockerfile
docker build
Container Scheduling
& Orchestration
Package
Complexity in Adoption:
• Developer Skills Gap: Learning Curve Needed for Adoption of Containers (e.g. Creating
Dockerfiles & Docker Compose)
• Complexity in External System Integration: (i.e. Storage, Networking, Logging, etc.), State of
Official Drivers, Third Party Drivers, etc.
• Service Discovery & Scaling Intelligence Not Built into Enterprise Legacy Apps
• IT Issues in Supporting Containerized Applications: Governance, Security, Isolation,
Lifecycle Management, Easily Setting Up Infrastructure Services Optimized for Containers
Compose
Blueprints
Network Storage Logging
Legacy App Journey to Containerization

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Extending Docker Compose & Docker Machine through Plug-ins written in BASH, PowerShell, Python, Ruby or Perl:
• On-the-fly Containerization of Legacy Applications – no code change needed
• Automatic Service Discovery -- for HTTP Load Balancing & Databases
• On-the-fly Integration with External Services – e.g. automated storage management (creating, mounting and taking
snapshots of external volumes)
More than 400 multi-tier app templates published – enabling instant deployment on containers
Legacy App Journey to Containerization with HyperForm
Auto-ScalingService Discovery
Self-Service Governance
HyperForm
Service Templates
Service Cluster
Compose
Templates
HyperForm
UI
Compose
Blueprints
Machine
VM
Blueprint
Network Storage Logging
Plug-ins
20+ Lifecycle Events Entitlements
5 Scripting
Languages

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Enabling IT as a Service
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• Rigid Approach • Extensible Framework
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IT as a Service
RIGID, INFLEXIBLE
APPROACH
Rigid Approach. Many cloud management
& PaaS solutions are extremely rigid with
limited extensibility and vendor lock-in
expected.
EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK
FOR ANY SERVICE
Extensible Framework. HyperForm’s
advanced plug-ins, which can be invoked at
more than 15 different lifecycle stages
enable any service on any cloud.
The plug-ins framework, which relies on
custom scripts that can be written in BASH,
PowerShell, Perl, Ruby or Python, enables
advanced application deployment and
facilitates integration with any external
service.

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Enabling the Journey to Automation
• Long Waits
• Weak Oversight
• Rising Costs
• Rapid Delivery
• Stronger Governance
• Lower CapEx & OpEx

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Enabling the Journey to Automation