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The Deployment Gap Agile Becomes Fragile
REQUEST, NEGOTIATE, PROVISION, CONFIGURE, TUNE,
CERTIFY, SCHEDULE UPDATES, ETC.
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PACKAGE
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MANAGE
COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
PRODUCTION APPLICATIONS
CUSTOM APPLICATION
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The rPath Approach

• rPath helps Enterprises and ISVs automate the
  creation, deployment, management and maintenance
  of application images that are ready to deploy to
  any traditional, virtualized or cloud-based
  environment
• Enterprises use rPath to reduce the cost and
  complexity of deploying and maintaining
  enterprise applications
• ISVs use rPath to produce virtual appliances
  that are sold to end users as complete solutions
  that run out-of-the-box

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Todays Tension between Speed Control
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Understanding Cloud Alternatives
Internal
External
Hybrid

• High control
• - Potentially lower TCO over time

- Low barriers to usage and start-up costs

• Arbitrage
• Cloud bursting

• High start-up costs
• Longer time to value

• Some security and uptime concerns
• Potentially higher TCO over time

• Switching costs unless apps are multi-platform

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Leveraging the Cloud to Reduce Capital Costs

• Virtualizing applications makes it easy to deploy
  application workloads to cloud services such as
  Amazon EC2

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Portability Enables Flexible Cloud Deployments

• One more small step enables the use of multiple
  external providers to get the best service and
  price

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The Cloud Computing Adoption Model
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Level 1 Virtualization
Goal Virtualize infrastructure and applications
Readiness Criteria
Actions/Investments
Metrics/Returns
Risk Factors
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Level 2 Cloud Experimentation
Goal Experiment in Amazon EC2 define reference
architecture
Metrics/Returns
Risk Factors
Readiness Criteria
Actions/Investments
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Level 3 Cloud Foundations
Goal Lay foundation for scalable application
architecture
Metrics/Returns
Risk Factors
Readiness Criteria
Actions/Investments
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Level 4 Cloud Exploitation
Goal Select cloud environment and begin
broad-based deployments
Readiness Criteria
Actions/Investments
Metrics/Returns
Risk Factors
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Level 5 Cloud Actualization Hypercloud
Goal Achieve dynamic sharing of application
workload, capacity arbitrage and self-service
application provisioning
Readiness Criteria
Actions/Investments
Metrics/Returns
Risk Factors