The document outlines a presentation on containerizing legacy applications, covering the definition of containers, their advantages, and the challenges involved in their adoption. Key speakers include experts from Storage Switzerland and Hypergrid, who emphasize the need for modernization and the potential benefits of using containers for enterprise applications. The discussion focuses on automation, integration ease, and overcoming obstacles related to legacy app migration to a containerized environment.

1. How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy
Applications
Join us as we explain:
Available On Demand
1. What are Containers
2. Why Should You Containerize Legacy Apps
3. What are the Challenges of Containerizing Legacy Apps
4. How to Overcome Container Challenges
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/HyperCont

2. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

3. Our Speakers
George Crump is the founder of Storage
Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on
the subjects of big data, solid state storage,
virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.
He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers,
and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined
storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has over 25 years of experience designing
storage solutions for data centers across the US.

4. Our Speakers
Amjad Afanah is the VP of Product at HyperGrid. He was
previously the co-founder of DCHQ, which is now
HyperForm, a cloud management and deployment
automation platform for containers. Amjad has extensive
experience in cloud automation and application
management. Prior to founding DCHQ, Amjad was a senior
product manager at VMware, where he managed strategic
products in cloud management & automation for almost 3
years. He also assumed a product management role for 5
years at Oracle where he focused on application and
middleware management capabilities. Amjad holds a
bachelor’s degree in computer science from MIT and an
MBA degree from UCLA.

5. PROPRIETARY AND
CONFIDENTIAL
CapEx
$ 4
The HyperGrid Solution
HyperForm™ Platform - Dev Ops Transformation and Cloud Orchestration
HyperVue™ Platform – Infrastructure Management and Orchestration
HyperWeave™ Platform – Elastic Infrastructure
Provision Hybrid
Cloud
Model
Apps
Transform,
Containerize
Deploy &
Broker
Infrastructure
Automation
Open
APIs
Role-based
Policies
Resource
Metering
Automated
Alerting
All-Flash
Storage
Kernel Level
Integration
Inline Erasure
Encoding
Integrated
Networking
Linear Resource
Scaling

6. What Are Containers?
• Like a Virtual Machine, except finer
grained
• Virtual Machine abstraction stops
at the server
• Operating System and Application are
repeated
• Containers abstract Operating
System and Application

7. Polling Question
Have you experimented with containerizing
apps?

8. The Container Advantage
• Containers require less resources (CPU,
storage capacity)
• Thousands of Containers can be created or
deleted in the time it takes to create one
Virtual Machine
• Far easier and faster to move between
physical hosts or data centers

9. But...
As A Service

10. • Containers are considered
only usable for “new”
Applications
• Not typically designed for
persistent Data Structures
• Leaving Enterprise Apps out
in the Cold
Containers Are Seeing Slow Adoption
By Traditional Applications

11. • Rapidly spin up additional
Application instances
• More seamlessly move
Applications between servers
or data centers
• Lower overall resource
consumption
What If You Could Containerize
Enterprise Apps?

12. Polling Question
What kind of apps are you managing
today?

13. HyperGrid
Enabling the Application Journey to
Containers
Amjad Afanah
VP of Product, HyperForm

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3
PROPRIETARY AND
CONFIDENTIAL
HyperGrid Value Proposition
Industry’s only application
infrastructure platform delivered
as-a-service that bridges
Development and IT
Operations.
Turn your private datacenter into
an AWS-like environment with
security, control and
governance for IT, while creating
agility and flexibility for
application developers on a
consumption basis.
HyperGrid is IT at the Flip of a
Switch™
A
PP
A
P
P

15. 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 Towards Digital Transformation

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

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6
PROPRIETARY AND
CONFIDENTIAL
Containers Accelerating App Modernization
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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7
PROPRIETARY AND
CONFIDENTIAL
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
Legacy App Journey to Containerization
Compose
Blueprints
Network
Storage
Logging

19. 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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PROPRIETARY AND
CONFIDENTIAL
HyperForm – Delivering Next Generation IT as a Service
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
• Automated, self-service VM
provisioning, approval
workflows, and granular
entitlements to provide tailored
infrastructure services on
Hyper-V, vSphere, OpenStack,
AWS, Azure, and 12+ clouds
• Deploy existing legacy
applications instantly on
Docker containers without
making a single code change
• Access to monitoring, backup,
in-browser terminals, log
analysis, scale in or out,
continuous delivery workflows
and applications updates to
speed up DevOps processes

21. Polling Question
Where are your apps running currently?

22. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
HyperGrid
http://hypergrid.com
HyperGrid on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/hypergrid
HyperGrid on LinkedIN:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hypergrid
HyperGrid on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hypergridinc/?fref=ts

23. How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy
Applications
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