IBM SmartCloudEnterprise use of IBM Rational Solutions

IBM Innovate 2011
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise
Relies on IBM Rational
Solutions

Scott Peddle
Advisory Software Developer, GTS
peddle@ca.ibm.com
Alexander Amies
Senior Software Engineer, GTS
aamies@cn.ibm.com
Harm Sluiman
Distinguished Engineer, GTS
sluiman@ca.ibm.com
http://ibm.com/cloud/enterprise
ALM-1846

June 5–9 Orlando, Florida

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation

Agenda

 Public cloud business scenarios
 IBM SmartCloud Enterprise background
 Cloud project tools and deliverables
 Rational Asset Manager deep dive
 Demo
 Resources
 Questions and answers

2 © 2011 IBM Corporation


Agenda

 Demo
 Resources



Business Scenarios

There are many business scenarios for use of cloud resources. Examples,
 Developing and testing using resources that are inconvenient or
expensive to procure permanently
 Web site hosting
 Much cheaper and more convenient than with putting physical servers in a hosting center
 minimization of network latency with worldwide delivery points
 Short term workloads with high peaks
 Proof of concepts and pilots
 Support software as a service (SaaS) offerings
Cloud is enabling a different mode of work and a different set of deliverables
that can be used more directly and efficiently by customers and help them
over the entire life cycle of the systems developed



The reinvention of standards for cloud
IBM’s sustained leadership in fostering open standards
• IBM has been involved in standards since their inception in IT industry
• IBM spends millions each year on open standards.
• IBM has made substantial donations to the open source & standards ecosystem
• Thousands of IBMers are involved in standards & regulatory activities
• IBM is currently engaged in over 400+ specifications & standards organizations.

Cloud Computing
Cloud architecture at The Open Group (TOG)
DMTF Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
DMTF Cloud Management WG (IAAS APIs)
OASIS Cloud Identity Management TC
Business agility

Service BPMN, SBVR,
Rise of the orientation RIF, …
Dawn of the
world wide web application server WS*, WS-I, SCA, Cloud Standards Customer Council
HTTP, HTML, WSFL, Java, Java EE, BPEL, SAML,
XLANG, REST… XML, XML Schema, XACML … On April 7, 2011 industry leaders form Cloud
SOAP, WSDL, UML, Standards Customer Council hosted by the
Web2.0, ...
Object Management Group (OMG) to deliver on the
promise of open cloud computing!
Join today: http://www.cloudcustomercouncil.org

Over 45 companies signed up prior to the April launch – the largest in OMG history!



Agenda

 Demo
 Resources



What is
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise?
Enterprise-class IT infrastructure
 Offering control, reliability, data security and
massive scalability in performance and
capacity
Your servers and
PCs
IBM owned and managed
Your firewall  Multi-tenant shared infrastructure
 Highly virtualized
Internet  Multiple IBM delivery centers
 Preconfigured software images

IBM firewall Enhanced security
IBM unique security and  Secured access through the Internet
authentication model  Virtual private network option
 Based on IBM security standards
Pay-per-use
 Virtualized IT development and test resources
IBM delivery centers delivered on a usage-based billing model



IBM SmartCloud Enterprise on the IBM Cloud
at a glance
Features and functions:
 Choice of ten virtual (Intel) server configurations
 Choice of pre-configured software images from which to build private image
libraries
 Linux® operating systems; Red Hat and Novell SUSE
 Windows
 IBM Lotus®, WebSphere®, DB2® and Informix® stacks
 IBM Rational® Application Lifecycle Management
 Tivoli® Monitoring software
 Option to add blocks of persistent storage
 Virtual Private Network (VPN/VLAN) services
 Premium support options; 24*7 by phone with optional add-on Linux OS
support
 Choice of six sites worldwide

The large number of high quality images is one of the key
The production site is at
differentiators of SmartCloud Enterprise
http://www.ibm.com/cloud/enterprise
• requires a large scale of image development driven
More information on the offering landing page by the Image Center of Excellence that relies greatly
http://www.ibm.com/cloud/solutions/development on Rational tools.



You can have your development and test environment running
in minutes on the IBM Cloud.
The easy-to-use self service portal guides you through automated provisioning

1 Choose a service 2 Choose a configuration 3 Image is provisioned



Tool Integration with the Cloud using Application Programming
Interfaces

Tools can integrate with the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise using the
public APIs
 Flavors
Command line – suitable for power users or scripting environments
 Build scripts, Rational BuildForge, Rational Functional Tester
REST – applications in any language
 Apache libCloud
Java – specifically for Java language applications
 Custom deployment tools, Rational Application Developer
 Same capabilities as a cloud end user
 instances of virtual machines
 images of virtual machines
 storage volumes
 network addresses and virtual local area networks
 cryptographic keys



Agenda

 Demo
 Resources



Pilot demo scenario – efficiencies gained from new delivery tools
and practices with cloud
Traditional Cloud
Consultant travels to customer site Consultant works over the Internet – save
thousands of dollars in travel expenses
Customer gives access to enterprise network – an Customer gives consultant access to cloud with
inconvenient and time consuming process account or specific virtual machines with
cryptographic keys – cut time from days to
minutes
Procure hardware for pilot –expensive and Create instances with t he self-service interface –
inconvenient to manage cut time from weeks to minutes
Consultant does it all herself or himself – pulling Consultant pulls in experts for high availability,
someone in for very short periods has too much performance, security, etc for a few hours as
overhead needed
Consultant cannot connect his laptop to the Customer can use her or his favorite Rational tools
customer’s network. He uses the minimal tools on own laptop or available on the cloud, saving
that the customer makes available. potentially thousands of dollars in license costs for
the customer in the process
Consultant installs everything from scratch Consultant starts up instances from pre-built
images – saves thousands of dollars in consulting
charges
Server is re-purposed after completion Server instances are saves as images and running
instances are deleted, saving completed work and
saving money


Comparison of Project Deliverables
Traditional Cloud

Software installation program Virtual machine image (click a button to capture an
• time consuming to develop instance)
• Saves time and money
• Lower level of skill needed
Written reports summarizing installation and • Deployment topology models (Rational Software
deployment steps Architect)
• expensive to maintain over time • Automated and repeatable/reusable (BuildForge)
Testing and quality assurance • Test lab automation
• Scaling up and down test team and systems • Ensures testing accuracy, minimizes
is slow and expensive individual testing configurations
• Test artifacts for change management, and
resource and project planning (RTC, RQM or RAM)
Configuration files in miscellaneous locations • Full lifecycle management capabilities (RAM)
• Version source files for future use or reusability
(RTC)
System disasters, crashes or failures • Image reprovisioning a fraction of the cost, not to
• Extremely time consuming, labor intensive mention precious development time regained
and costly



Cloud Synergy with Rational Tools
 Rational tools can help manage the life cycles of
cloud assets
Images, software, and documentation assets
 Document image content and prerequisites with
topologies using Rational Software Architect
Organize and manage life cycle these assets in a catalog
with Rational Asset Manager
 In transition from physical infrastructure to cloud,
analysis and modeling with Rational tools can help
implement informed planning
 Many business scenarios lend themselves to
automation, which is a best practice for realizing cost
reduction with cloud. Rational tools can help to
automate deployment



Work Efficiency on the Cloud with Rational Tools

 Asset management with Rational Asset Manager
 Example: approval process around the lifecycle of virtual machine image and other assets
produced by Image Center of Excellence and third party providers
 Provisioning with Rational Application Developer, Rational Quality
Manager, and Testing as a Service
 Rapid setup and tear down of complex environments for test scenarios
 Deployment topology modeling with Rational Software Architect
 Introduction of deployment modeling early into the development life cycle
 Automation with Rational Build Forge and Rational Team Concert
 Improve reproducability of system deployment
 Rational tools themselves are available to users as cloud assets
 No need to install them on your personal desktop
 The IBM SmartCloud Enterprise development and test team uses Rational
tools for development of the system
 For all stages of the cloud development



Provisioning with RAD, RQM, and TaaS

 The cloud APIs allow images, storage, and other resources to be provisioned and
managed for development and testing
 Virtual machine instances can be added via UI or script
 Cloud allows set up of complex test environments to be scripted
 Compare this with the process to procure and set up physical environments
 This is very convenient for developers and testers who can do all their work from
one primary workstation without having to permanently own and manage other
servers required for their work
 Save time in setting up and maintaining test tool environments
 The tools themselves are also assets that are available on the cloud
 Images of tools can be saved like other images after a project finishes to assist the people
who support the systems



Use of RAD in a Cloud Environment
RAD discovers and provisions virtual machine images in the cloud using the
RAM catalog



Modeling Cloud Topology with RSA

All assets on the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise include topology models
 This can help understand different deployment models
 Make sure deployment prerequisites can be met
 Topology files can be downloaded from the RAM catalog and imported into RSA
 Encourages the use of topology models as project deliverables



Dynamic Provisioning of Software Bundles

Software bundles are needed in IaaS
Clouds to prevent image proliferation
 Some software, such as native tools,
utilities, agents, and so on can be
widely used across many different
images. For example, editors.
 Some software may or may not be
bundled with other software. For
example, RAM may be bundled with
WebSphere and DB2. LDAP servers
are bundled with a number of security
products.
 This leads to many combinations, which
would be too many images to support
 The solution is to support dynamic
provisioning of software bundles
 Topology models are used to model the
software prerequisites and to assist in
automated provisioning



Cloud Security and Rational AppScan

Cloud opens up some different security challenges
 Web management layers need to be secure to
 SQL injection
 cross site scripting
 cross site request forgery (multi-tab browsing)
 network vulnerabilities (open ports)
 Cryptographic weaknesses (use of old crypto algoritms)
 Rational AppScan is a must to identify and guide resolution of any
problems identified
 Same problems exist for any applications but those on the Internet are at
more risk



Agenda

 Demo
 Resources



Rational Asset Manager

Rational® Asset Manager is a collaborative software development tool that
organizations can use to identify, manage, and govern the design, development,
and consumption of software assets and services.

 A definitive software library

 A lifecycle management solution



Definitive Software Library

Template Topology Composable Software Bundle
 The parameters, activation  A bundle of software,
scripts, and instructions to installation and configuration
provision a VM. operations, parameters, topology
metadata and documentation




Image Development

Configure •Provision
Create VM from catalog

•Configure
Install tools, software, configuration
Provision
Capture
•Capture
Create image from VM

•Customize
Customize Extract variability into asset



Image Development Collaboration
Private Image Community Enterprise Community
Image consumable by Image consumable by others
owner only
Share Collaboration by forums,
ratings, comments.

VM 1 VM 3
VM 1 VM 4
VM 1 VM 2

Image Developer Image Collaborators



Image Development Redux

Feedback
Configure
Test

Capture

Provision Customize Image Developer

Image Testers
Share

Rational Software Architect
Rational Team Concert



www.ibm.com/software/rational



Summary

Cloud is enabling
 a different mode of work
 a different set of deliverables that can be used more directly
 more efficient use of resources
 savings over each step of the software development lifecycle
 freedom from procuring and managing physical systems
 a new way of collaborating



Resources

Production web site:
http://ibm.com/cloud/enterprise

More information:
http://www.ibm.com/cloud/solutions/development

Sign up online (US only):
http://www.ibm.com/services/us/igs/cloud-development/buydevandtest.html



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