The document discusses the ServiceMesh Agility Platform, which provides a single, consolidated platform for enabling on-demand, self-service IT operating models for large enterprises. It allows for graphically designing cloud-portable, multi-tier applications and platforms that can be deployed to any of 16 public or private clouds. The platform provides a single control point for governance, orchestration, and delivery across the entire application lifecycle. It uses policies to provision virtualized storage and optimize utilization.
Enterprise Cloud Management - 2013 EMC World presentationServiceMesh
Leading CIOs are revamping investment strategies to address the limitations of application service delivery infrastructure and unlocking differentiated business value through the implementation of a Cloud Empowered Enterprise strategy. This strategy centers on a business-driven, policy oriented, dynamic and abstracted cloud-based application service delivery and management approach to deliver business innovations to market faster. ServiceMesh shared these concepts with EMC World attendees and talked about how they can create their own Cloud Empowered Enterprise and cost-effective business agility with the Agility Platform.
Jeremy Ashley / Sten Vesterli
Learn how the 10:90:90 rule helped drive the first generation of Oracle’s cloud user experience. Built with Application Development Framework, or ADF, the elegant new paradigm enforces a light-touch interaction with a new springboard, strict adherence to use of white space, only the essential information, thoughtful use of side tabs, and a clean navigation path. Come to get inspired by what you can build with ADF!
Marek Bražina, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
Virtualization Forum 2014, Prague, 22.10.2014
Jestliže SlideShare nezobrazí prezentaci korektně, můžete si ji stáhnout ve formátu .ppsx nebo .pdf (kliknutím na tlačitko v dolní liště snímků).
Enterprise Cloud Management - 2013 EMC World presentationServiceMesh
Leading CIOs are revamping investment strategies to address the limitations of application service delivery infrastructure and unlocking differentiated business value through the implementation of a Cloud Empowered Enterprise strategy. This strategy centers on a business-driven, policy oriented, dynamic and abstracted cloud-based application service delivery and management approach to deliver business innovations to market faster. ServiceMesh shared these concepts with EMC World attendees and talked about how they can create their own Cloud Empowered Enterprise and cost-effective business agility with the Agility Platform.
Jeremy Ashley / Sten Vesterli
Learn how the 10:90:90 rule helped drive the first generation of Oracle’s cloud user experience. Built with Application Development Framework, or ADF, the elegant new paradigm enforces a light-touch interaction with a new springboard, strict adherence to use of white space, only the essential information, thoughtful use of side tabs, and a clean navigation path. Come to get inspired by what you can build with ADF!
Marek Bražina, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
Virtualization Forum 2014, Prague, 22.10.2014
Jestliže SlideShare nezobrazí prezentaci korektně, můžete si ji stáhnout ve formátu .ppsx nebo .pdf (kliknutím na tlačitko v dolní liště snímků).
ServiceMesh's Dave Roberts presented, originally at Cloud Connect 2012, Santa Clara CA
Applications are the heart of enterprise IT. Everything that IT does is focused on delivering new functionality through applications. Unfortunately, for most enterprises, the application delivery process is tremendously inefficient, leading outcomes where more application development projects are canceled than are completed.
Is Private Cloud Right for Your Organization?ServiceMesh
This is a presentation ServiceMesh's Dave Roberts did for a Focus webinar, March 2011:
http://www.focus.com/webcasts/information-technology/private-cloud-right-your-organization/
Dogfighting communism coal cloud connect chicago finalServiceMesh
Dogfighting, Communism and Coal: Understanding Business Agility and IT Spending in the Age of Cloud
ServiceMesh's Dave Roberts delivered at Cloud Connect Chicago, 2012.
In 2003 and 2004, Nicholas Carr asked the question, "Does IT matter?" In the process he touched off a hailstorm of debate and criticism. As IT shifts more toward a cloud-based service delivery model, it's reasonable to ask if cloud matters.
Gigaom's Structure 2014 conference, June 21-22 in San Francisco Launchpad company profiles
#gigaomlive
More at http://events.gigaom.com/structure-2014/
Cloud Scars: Lessons from the Enterprise PioneersDave Roberts
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the IT market. But if you aren't careful, you're cloud project can end in disaster. This presentation gathers some lessons learned by the early adopters, so you can avoid their mistakes and double-down on their successes.
Survey after survey continues to find that security is chief among the challenges with cloud computing. In fact, fewer than half of security and compliance officers feel that they have the technology they need to secure their cloud deployments!
Cloud management platforms can play a pivotal role in cloud security by centralizing the orchestration, governance and deployment of cloud applications, platforms and infrastructure across hybrid clouds. However, the Agility Platform stands alone in its ability to offer a policy-based governance and security model that directly and specifically helps Global 2000 enterprises effectively manage cloud workload security.
Step Up to the Plate: Take Your Cloud Strategy from the Minor League to the M...Dave Roberts
Many enterprises are working on cloud computing strategies. Unfortunately, most are taking a tactical view of the situation and optimizing on the wrong things. In short, they are playing "small ball," which will result in suboptimal outcomes and possibly failed projects. To ensure your cloud project has the best chance of success, you'll need to think through a larger strategy. You'll need to step up to the major leagues. This presentation can help.
Gartner report on cloud360 cloud management platformCognizant
Gartner Research has released a report emphasizing Cognizant Cloud360’s capabilities to empower enterprises in embracing cloud-enabled environments, with industry-leading platforms. According to Gartner, the key value adds of this product are cost-effective application management, seamless IT service delivery with self-service, enterprise compliance & governance and protection of existing IT investments. The report explicates why Cognizant’s Cloud360 becomes an ideal partner for enterprises planning operations in the cloud.
Learn more about Cloud360 here - http://www.cognizant.com/cloud/cloud360
Contact Us
cloud360@cognizant.com
Openstack Cloud Management and Automation Using Red Hat Cloudforms 4.0Prasad Mukhedkar
To success in Private Cloud, You have to have develop management and automation
strategy. Cloudforms is CPM (Cloud Platform Management) software that provides framework to develop management and automation strategy with its flaxible automation
module
MongoDB Webinar : Transforming Sales Enablement with Next Gen OnboardingMindTickle
After implementing an effective 30/60/90 day sales onboarding program, MongoDB chose not to rest on its laurels. The team evolved their onboarding program to increase the productivity of their sales reps and recruiting efficiency of their sales leaders using a milestone-based approach. Join us to learn what the evolution of sales onboarding means and how to leverage from the lessons learned by Jeremy Powers, Senior Director of Sales Enablement, to implement a similar program at your company.
This session reviews what customers need to know about using EMC products in an OpenStack cloud OS environment. This session also reviews which products are available for use in Folsom, Grizzly, and upcoming OpenStack releases. We briefly examine best practices for those products in lab and production deployments. Finally, we will consider where EMC's future participation in OpenStack may lead.
Objective 1: Understand what OpenStack open source software is, how it can be used as a framework to build private clouds, and how EMC is contributing to this open source community.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Identify which EMC products are available for use in OpenStack today, and how those products add value to private cloud solutions that use OpenStack.
Objective 3: Understand requirements, configurations, and best practices for deployment of EMC products in both lab and production environments.
ServiceMesh's Dave Roberts presented, originally at Cloud Connect 2012, Santa Clara CA
Applications are the heart of enterprise IT. Everything that IT does is focused on delivering new functionality through applications. Unfortunately, for most enterprises, the application delivery process is tremendously inefficient, leading outcomes where more application development projects are canceled than are completed.
Is Private Cloud Right for Your Organization?ServiceMesh
This is a presentation ServiceMesh's Dave Roberts did for a Focus webinar, March 2011:
http://www.focus.com/webcasts/information-technology/private-cloud-right-your-organization/
Dogfighting communism coal cloud connect chicago finalServiceMesh
Dogfighting, Communism and Coal: Understanding Business Agility and IT Spending in the Age of Cloud
ServiceMesh's Dave Roberts delivered at Cloud Connect Chicago, 2012.
In 2003 and 2004, Nicholas Carr asked the question, "Does IT matter?" In the process he touched off a hailstorm of debate and criticism. As IT shifts more toward a cloud-based service delivery model, it's reasonable to ask if cloud matters.
Gigaom's Structure 2014 conference, June 21-22 in San Francisco Launchpad company profiles
#gigaomlive
More at http://events.gigaom.com/structure-2014/
Cloud Scars: Lessons from the Enterprise PioneersDave Roberts
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the IT market. But if you aren't careful, you're cloud project can end in disaster. This presentation gathers some lessons learned by the early adopters, so you can avoid their mistakes and double-down on their successes.
Survey after survey continues to find that security is chief among the challenges with cloud computing. In fact, fewer than half of security and compliance officers feel that they have the technology they need to secure their cloud deployments!
Cloud management platforms can play a pivotal role in cloud security by centralizing the orchestration, governance and deployment of cloud applications, platforms and infrastructure across hybrid clouds. However, the Agility Platform stands alone in its ability to offer a policy-based governance and security model that directly and specifically helps Global 2000 enterprises effectively manage cloud workload security.
Step Up to the Plate: Take Your Cloud Strategy from the Minor League to the M...Dave Roberts
Many enterprises are working on cloud computing strategies. Unfortunately, most are taking a tactical view of the situation and optimizing on the wrong things. In short, they are playing "small ball," which will result in suboptimal outcomes and possibly failed projects. To ensure your cloud project has the best chance of success, you'll need to think through a larger strategy. You'll need to step up to the major leagues. This presentation can help.
Gartner report on cloud360 cloud management platformCognizant
Gartner Research has released a report emphasizing Cognizant Cloud360’s capabilities to empower enterprises in embracing cloud-enabled environments, with industry-leading platforms. According to Gartner, the key value adds of this product are cost-effective application management, seamless IT service delivery with self-service, enterprise compliance & governance and protection of existing IT investments. The report explicates why Cognizant’s Cloud360 becomes an ideal partner for enterprises planning operations in the cloud.
Learn more about Cloud360 here - http://www.cognizant.com/cloud/cloud360
Contact Us
cloud360@cognizant.com
Openstack Cloud Management and Automation Using Red Hat Cloudforms 4.0Prasad Mukhedkar
To success in Private Cloud, You have to have develop management and automation
strategy. Cloudforms is CPM (Cloud Platform Management) software that provides framework to develop management and automation strategy with its flaxible automation
module
MongoDB Webinar : Transforming Sales Enablement with Next Gen OnboardingMindTickle
After implementing an effective 30/60/90 day sales onboarding program, MongoDB chose not to rest on its laurels. The team evolved their onboarding program to increase the productivity of their sales reps and recruiting efficiency of their sales leaders using a milestone-based approach. Join us to learn what the evolution of sales onboarding means and how to leverage from the lessons learned by Jeremy Powers, Senior Director of Sales Enablement, to implement a similar program at your company.
This session reviews what customers need to know about using EMC products in an OpenStack cloud OS environment. This session also reviews which products are available for use in Folsom, Grizzly, and upcoming OpenStack releases. We briefly examine best practices for those products in lab and production deployments. Finally, we will consider where EMC's future participation in OpenStack may lead.
Objective 1: Understand what OpenStack open source software is, how it can be used as a framework to build private clouds, and how EMC is contributing to this open source community.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Identify which EMC products are available for use in OpenStack today, and how those products add value to private cloud solutions that use OpenStack.
Objective 3: Understand requirements, configurations, and best practices for deployment of EMC products in both lab and production environments.
EMC's IT Transformation Journey ( EMC Forum 2014 )EMC
The Cloud transforms IT from being reactive into a business enabler improving your organizations agility. But IT Transformation is not just about technology. It involves changing IT roles, skills, and processes to adapt to the new IT paradigm. Led by EMC IT, let's come together in this insightful session to explore how to transform your IT infrastructure, operating model, and applications.
This session provides a brief overview of the various models available for adopting cloud and their strategic considerations, ranging from providing Enterprise class service to business alignment. This session also explores the infrastructure, management, and benefits of cloud computing and cloud storage.
Objective 1: Understand the various cloud models and their associated benefits and considerations.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Gain a high-level understanding of technologies that EMC can provide to accelerate adoption of the cloud models.
Objective 3: Understand the tactical approaches to cloud consumption available to their organization based on its needs and transformation phase.
Watch the recordings via http://www.brainshark.com/emcworld/vu?pi=zGfzHnlI1zB8sLz0
Software Defined Data Center: The Intersection of Networking and StorageEMC
There has been quite a bit of marketing rhetoric around Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) since VMware’s acquisition of Nicira. In this session we explore the components of a SDDC. Our specific focus is on the composition of a SDDC’s resource model: Compute, Networking, and Storage. The emphasis is on the disaggregated I/O for Network and Storage resources.
Objective 1: Describe the disaggregated I/O resource model employed to facilitate the use of virtualized Ethernet and Block devices in a Software Defined Data Center.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Explain how end-user driven provisioning of virtual Ethernet devices and Block devices serve to decouple resource use from infrastructure management.
Objective 3: Describe some of the opportunities and challenges associated with employing disaggregate I/O.
Category:Applications & Databases, Storage Automation & Management, Virtualization & Cloud Computing
The Future of Storage : EMC Software Defined Solution RSD
EMC provides intelligent software-defined storage solutions that help organizations drastically reduce management overhead through automation across traditional storage silos and pave the way for rapid deployment of fully integrated next generation scale-out storage architectures.
Presentation of Executive Briefing, April 2015
EMC IT's Journey to Cloud
PHASE 3: IT-AS-A-SERVICE
APPLICATIONS & CLOUD EXPERIENCE
See how EMC’s applications and cloud integration framework enable IT as a service.
Software Defined Data Center: The Intersection of Networking and StorageEMC
There has been quite a bit of marketing rhetoric around Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) since VMware’s acquisition of Nicira. In this session we explore the components of a SDDC. Our specific focus is on the composition of a SDDC’s resource model: Compute, Networking, and Storage. The emphasis is on the disaggregated I/O for Network and Storage resources.
Objective 1: Describe the disaggregated I/O resource model employed to facilitate the use of virtualized Ethernet and Block devices in a Software Defined Data Center.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Explain how end-user driven provisioning of virtual Ethernet devices and Block devices serve to decouple resource use from infrastructure management.
Objective 3: Describe some of the opportunities and challenges associated with employing disaggregate I/O.
Soyez plus flexibles avec la sauvegarde dans le cloud DPSRSD
EMC XCHANGE 2015
Christian LE CORRE
http://france.emc.com/data-protection/data-protection-suite/index.htm
http://france.emc.com/data-protection/data-protection-suite/index.htm
Implementing cloud based devops for distributed agile projectsTom Stiehm
Cloud-based development, delivery and deployment environments are the future of IT operations, learn how to best leverage the Cloud to enable your teams to use it effectively and to give them an advantage. Learn why Cloud software delivery is different from traditional software delivery environments and how to optimize your platform and team to get the most out of the Cloud. Geographically distributed software delivery teams are now the norm for large projects and the Cloud is a perfect enabler to level the playing field for your distributed teams and give them all the same ability to achieve high productivity.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Who is ServiceMesh? We’ve been in the EMC Select program only recently, but as a company have been around since 2008We sell a Cloud Management Platform called the Agility Platform… and we sell it to very large Global Enterprises like UBS, Pfizer, Visa, and othersThe Agility Platform is a Cloud Management Platform… and its used to deploy and manage enterprise-grade platforms and applications portfolios into hybrid clouds. Our customers use the Agility Platform to govern and deliver of entire IT service portfolios that are cloud-based (combos of infra, platforms, apps)…. and its done in an on-demand and self-service manner directly to the end users that need them. (not IT ops, but Business Unit dev teams) These customers are doing this to implement a new IT operating model… and provide them with significant agility and cost saving benefits relative to the way their IT organization operated in the past. And our Agility Platform is a key enabler in doing this. One of the keys to really extending those self-service capabilities to end users…. And one of the things thats unique about the Agility Platform, is that we’ve taken a very application-centric approach to cloud governance….. What I mean by that…is that we provide an extensible policy framework that’s very powerful, and allows you to create an unlimited number of custom policies based on operational parameters, security parameters, compliance parameters, lifecycle events, and other things that you specify. And by using these high level policies…. You can automate and govern IT resource consumption across large enterprises from a single control point ….. and simplify operational complexity by managing all of this across different hybrid clouds. If you look at the graphic here……The Agility Platform itself is one, integrated product. And it consists of five product modules, and they’re all organized along the lifecycle of a cloud workload:Planner is used for scoring and evaluating different workloads to determine their suitability to migrate to the cloud. Designer is a graphical workbench to assemble cloud portable stacks, templates, and complex application topologies for deployment across diverse hybrid clouds. Store is our self-service portal for provisioning IT resource portfolios. Release Manager is an easy to use visual dashboard to promote software builds and deployment environments across SDLC stages. Operations is a consolidated runtime management console where you aggregate performance monitoring and IT resource consumption information across instances and clouds under management. All of this sits on top of a core platform…for governance, security, and lifecycle management. Agility ties these modules together into continuous lifecycle…. So you can have seamless promotion of workloads from one module to the next. Agility also give you the ability to deploy workloads portably across different clouds. We support currently 16 different private and public clouds. And we’ve also got a very comprehensive API and adaptors to tie directly into an organization’s existing SDLC toolchain and existing IT operations tools.
NOTES: Fundamental to this solution is what we’re calling “Common Application Platforms”, and it provides an initial catalyst to start aligning both groups and delivering value to each.What “Common Application Platforms” allow you to do, is embed IT Ops best practices around the governance and configuration of the underlying infrastructure and platforms that your Dev and Test teams need to do their work. These best practice are captured in this pre-configured, production-like “container” for the application code… that can be used upstream by Dev and Test groups from the beginning. This way, the coding and testing work is always aligned to its eventual production deployment environment. That way, the two are always kept in sync, and the chance for configuration related-defects to be introduced into production are reduced dramatically. Both teams get involved in creating and using these CAP, and both teams benefit…. IT Ops gets involved now from the very beginning… rather than just waiting for something to be thrown over the wall at them:Create standardized, multi-tier enterprise application stacks… which can include very complex topologiesEmbed standard SOE agents and utilitiesGovern and define security zone requirements and operational SLAs… which by the way can vary across different roles or teams across the SDLCDev get to benefit as well:Deploy to High fidelity production-like environments… from the very beginning… that are available self-service and on-demand… directly from their current IDENo longer has to worry about configuring app stacks before they can do their work So both teams get involved, and both teams benefit.
Current Limitations:Provisioning delaysLack of automated governance controlsManual configuration delaysConfiguration mismatches and errorsExpense reconciliation for projects is a nightmareGrowing governance/security audit pressuresPROBLEMS RESULTING FROM DISCONTINUOUS DELIVERYRepeated Infrastructure Setup for Unit, Acceptance, Performance, Integration Testing is Error Prone & Time ConsumingMismatch Between Prod and Pre-Prod Environments Implies Tests Do Not reflect Production ScenarioLimited FTEs & Complexity Implies Tests Need to be Run Sequentially If Cost of Infrastructure is Fixed, then Parallel Testing is ProhibitiveLonger Time in App Creation, Increases Risk, Since Business Imperatives Might Have ChangedResults in Small Number of Large Releases Which Increases Cost of FailureProblems Compounded if Application & Platform Lifecycles are discrete, otherwise dependencies slow down delivery