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SommaireDevops and the Cloud

Devops is a Verb Ive virtualized my systems isn t that a cloud ? End - to - End Cloud Offerings for Large Enterprises NoOps Is As Legitimate As DevOps IBM Research Shows How the Cloud is Driving Business Model

Innovation Cloud Computing Goes Far Beyond Virtualization Top 5 Things The Cloud Is Not CIOs Don 't Need to Be Business Leaders

DevOps and the Cloud
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June 18, 2012 2:05 pm byEdwin Schouten

One of the hot topics around these days in IT is DevOps. But what is it exactly, why would Iwant it, and if so, how do I get it? This blog posting discusses these three questions; its upto you to decide when you start using it.

What is it?Are you, as developers, fed up with theoperations group that doesnt understand yourcoding, while taking all the time in the world tomake a mess of implementing your application?Or are you from operations, frustrated that youvebeen given a half-developed, half-testedapplication that needs to be implemented withoutproper documentation? Or are you from the business side, overlooking the strugglebetween development and operations while wondering why it all takes so long to get this not-

too-difficult request implemented? For all of you; DevOps is here!

The name DevOps is derived from a combination of the two words development andoperations. DevOps is more than a new development methodology likeagile softwaredevelopment, its about communication and collaboration between all three statedstakeholders (development, operations, and business) within an organization. It is mainlytargeted at product delivery, quality testing, feature development, and maintenance releasesin order to improve reliability, security, and faster development and deployment cycles. Tosupport DevOps, collaborative tools are needed to support the agile service deliveryapproach, accelerating application deployment from weeks to minutes.DevOps has received increased attention over the last year or so, which makes perfectsense for two reasons: the application landscapes are becoming increasingly complex, thetime-to-market of new functionality needs to be decreased. Organizations need to reducecost while maintaining a satisfactory level of quality is DevOps a solution to this problem?

Why would I want it?An IBM CIO study of hundreds of companies revealed that a number of organizations arestruggling to just get their software into production consistently. In fact, 50 percent ofdeployed applications must be rolled back, with rework accounting for more than 30 percentof project costs. Ultimately, the driver is to reduce the costs of managing applications whilekeeping agile to be able to quickly respond to market demand.As Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, explains in hispresentation in 2011 for HackFwd

video (at minutes 3:00 5:00), Amazon struggled with the exact same problem: an immenseunmanageable application landscape. The solution as he explains it is that each service (setof functionalities) is developed and operated by a small team that can be no larger than itcan be fed on two pizzas. Even shorter is you build it, you run it.Now Im not saying that every organization should do the exact same, but the underlyingthought is DevOps. Make functionality and maintainability a shared developers/operationsresponsibility, supported by focusing on inter-team collaboration and communication.As Ovum, an organization that provides clients with independent and objective analysis,describes it in itsarticle: The solution is to provide both teams with a sharedobjectivethat is described in business outcomes. This comes from a governance layer that mustmandate the behaviours. The roadmaps and demos shown at Pulse indicate that IBM clearlygets this and is working to bridge the gap between development and operations at all

levels.
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How do I start using it?Back in February 2011 an excellent white paperCollaborative DevOps with Rational andTivoliwas made available. It described the challenges that exist between development andoperations. It also described how integrations between products from IBM Rational and IBMTivoli support effective collaboration to achieve improved accuracy, efficiency, agility, andsecurity in the deployment and monitoring of software systems. The scope of the paperspans the areas of strategic planning, deployment planning, automation, and theidentification and remediation of production problems.

Sure you can implement DevOps tools yourself in your owndata center, but wouldnt it be great to get this as a servicefrom the cloud? No hardware, installation, or licenses to worryabout. No long-term investments needed. Just switch it on andstart using it. This is now possible using IBM SmartCloudApplication Services. At theplatform as a service web page,click the picture (4:08) shown on the right [i1] to obtain a quick

but thorough understanding of how DevOps can work foryour business as offered from theIBM SmartCloud.And whats even better; you can register now for the pilot program for IBM SmartCloudApplication Services to be able to use DevOps from the cloud! Just navigate toIBMSmartCloud and follow the instructions its that simple.Still hungry for more? Go to theIBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery web page that holds awealth of information about DevOps and the various implementation scenarios.

About Edwin SchoutenEdwin is the Cloud Services Leader for IBM Global Technology Services in the Beneluxregion (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) and IT Architect by hart. Edwin has almost

15 years experience in IT, of which the last 8 years in IT Architecture, which is backed-upwith a Masters of Science degree in IT Architecture. He is an optimist by nature, analytic butrealistic and has a can-do mentality. He has an ever growing drive to add business valueusing IT, thats also where his biggest strength comes in; the ability to communicate withboth business and IT.

Devops is a Verbposted on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 4:28 AM

#devops Devops is not something you build, its something you do
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Operations is increasingly responsible for deploying and managing applications within thisarchitecture, requiring traditionally developer-oriented skills like integration, programmingand testing as well as greater collaboration to meet business and operational goals forperformance, security, and availability. To maintain the economy of scale necessary to keepup with the volatility of modern data center environments, operations is adopting moderndevelopment methodologies and practices.cloud computing and virtualization have elevated the API as the next generationmanagement paradigm across IT, driven by the proliferation of virtualization and pressure onIT to become more efficient. In response, infrastructure is becoming more programmable,allowing IT to automate, integrate and manage continuous delivery of applications within thecontext of an overarching operationalframework.

The role of infrastructure vendors in devopsis to enable the automation, integration, andlifecycle management of applications andinfrastructure services through APIs,programmable interfaces and reusableservices. By embracing the toolsets, APIs,and methodologies of devops, infrastructurevendors can enable IT to create repeatableprocesses with faster feedback mechanismsthat support the continuous and dynamic delivery cycle required to achieve efficiency andstability within operations.

DEVOPS MORE THAN ORCHESTRATING VM PROVISIONING

Most of the attention paid to devops today is focused on automating the virtual machineprovisioning process. Do you use scripts? Cloned images? Boot scripts or APIs? OpenSource tools?
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But devops is more than that and its not what you use. You dont suddenly get to claimyoure doing devops because you use a framework instead of custom scripts, or vice-versa. Devops is a broader, iterative agile methodology that enables refinement andeventually optimization of operational processes. Devops is lifecycle management with thegoal of continuous delivery of applications achieved through the discovery, refinement andoptimization of repeatable processes. Those processes must necessarily extend beyond thevirtual machine. The bulk of time required to deploy an application to the end-user lies notin provisioning it, but in provisioning it in the context of the entire application delivery chain.Security, access, web application security,load balancing, acceleration, optimization. Theseare the services that comprise an application delivery network, through which the applicationis secured, optimized and accelerated. These services must be defined and provisioned as

well. Through the iterative development of the appropriate (read: most optimal) policies todeliver specific applications, devops is able to refine the policies and the process until it isrepeatable.

Like enterprise architects, devops practitioners will see patterns emerge from the repetitionthat clearly indicate an ability to reuse operational processes and make them repeatable.Codifying in some way these patterns shortens the overall process. Iterations refine until theprocess is optimized and applications can be completely deployed in as short a time aspossible. And like enterprise architects, devops practitioners know that these processesspan the silos that exist in data centers today. From development to security to the network;the process of deploying an application to the end-user requires components from each ofthese concerns and thus devops must figure out how to build bridges between the ivory

towers of the data center. Devops must discern how best to integrate processes from eachconcern into a holistic, application-focused operational deployment process.To achieve this, infrastructure must be programmable, it must present the means by which itcan be included the processes. We know, for example, that there are over 1200 networkattributes spanning multiple concerns that must be configured in the application deliverynetwork to successfully deploy Microsoft Exchange to ensure it is secure, fast and available.Codifying that piece of the deployment equation as a repeatable, automated process goes along way toward reducing the average time to end-user from 3 months down to somethingmore acceptable.

Infrastructure vendors must seek to aid those on their devops journey by not only providingthe APIs and programmable interfaces, but actively building an ecosystem of devops-

focused solutions that can be delivered to devops practitioners. It is not enough to say hereis an API, go forth and integrate. Devops practitioners are not developers, and while an API
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in some cases may be exactly what is required, more often than not organizations areadopting platforms and frameworks through which devops will be executed. Infrastructurevendors must recognize this reality and cooperatively develop the integrations and themeans to codify repeatable patterns. The collaboration across silos in the data center isdifficult, but necessary. Infrastructure vendors who cross market lines, as it were, to

cooperatively develop integrations that address the technological concerns of collaborationwill make the people and process collaboration responsibility of devops a much less difficulttask.Devops is not something you build, its something you do.

Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services availableacross F5s entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials andparticipation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations,among other efforts. MacVittie has extensive programming experience as an applicationarchitect, as well as network and systems development and administration expertise. Priorto joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning Senior Technology Editor at NetworkComputing Magazine, where she conducted product research and evaluation focused on

integration with application and network architectures, and authored articles on a variety oftopics aimed at IT professionals. Her most recent area of focus included SOA-relatedproducts and architectures. She holds a B.S. in Information and Computing Science fromthe University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, and an M.S. in Computer Science from NovaSoutheastern University.

Ive virtualized my systems isn t thata cloud ?

April 17, 2012 2:12 pm by Joe Bohn

When many people think of cloud computing they immediately think of virtualization andvirtual machines in particular. This is completely natural and not at all surprising. After all,one of the core underlying technologies used in cloud computing is virtualization. However,it is important not to confuse one element of cloud computing with the entire thing and thiscan sometimes happen. Actually, I dont really think people literally confuse virtualizationwith cloud computing but I have heard people refer to their collection of virtual images astheir private cloud. They are too easily satisfied and view their collection of virtualmachines as being good enough. They dont see how moving to a real cloud private,public, or hybrid could transform their data center. They are greatly mistaken.

First, lets consider what is typically meant by cloud computing. I think we need an impartialdefinition here so lets look at what has been produced by the National Institute ofStandardsand Technology (NIST). Its their job to define standards and guidelines, including minimumrequirements, for use in federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations. NISTpublished thisdefinition ofcloud computing in September of 2011. The definition is verycomplete and yet also concise (just two real pages of definition). They define the fiveessential characteristics of the cloud model: three service models and four deploymentmodels.

Lets start by looking at the essential characteristics: On-demand, self-service

Broad network access Resource pooling
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Rapid elasticity Measured service

So, for a solution to be called a cloud it should meet these essential characteristics. In thislist, it is clear that managing a collection of virtual machines is certainly not a cloud. Youmust be able to have resources allocated when they are needed and in a self-servicefashion. You must be able to do this from anywhere with broad network access. You mustprovide resource pooling for use by multiple consumers in a multitenant model based uponconsumer demand. Indeed, virtualization certainly comes into play with resource pooling but only to the extent that it can be leveraged to easily manage and move workloads. Theconsumers should not even be concerned with the physical location of the workloads.Elasticity is imperative and must be supported to both scale outward and inward as demanddictates, optimally in an automatic fashion. This is something not easily done when you arejust managing virtual machines. Finally, the ability to measure usage of the services isimportant and should provide transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilizedservice.

The NIST also defines the three primary service models: software as a service (SaaS),platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS); and also four primarydeployment models: private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud.So I think this gives us a good working model for cloud computing and the value that it canbring over only virtual machines. That isnt to say that virtualization isnt important. I think itis very important for cloud computing bordering on critical. Its just that virtualization mustbe thought of within this broader notion of cloud computing to gain all of the value that thisnew paradigm has to offer. Weve been aware of this for some time at IBM and you caneasily see it in the solutions that weve delivered for both private and public clouds. I thinkour competitors are just now starting to see this too and are beginning to think beyond onlyvirtual machines. But there are many differences between our cloud solutions and those ofour competitors. One element is that our competitors are often focused only on their

particular hypervisor (virtualization infrastructure) technologies to facilitate cloud solutions;IBM, however, gives you a choice.

The next question that I think you should ask is what role does virtualization play in thecloud and what exactly is it that I should virtualize? You can probably guess that it is morethan only virtual machines. At IBM, we have always been taking the broader view lookingbeyond where we are today so that we are prepared for tomorrow.So what does it mean to take a broader view of virtualization? At its core, virtualization isabout introducing a level of abstraction between the producer and the consumer ofsomething. We began this journey by virtualizing the hardware memory, CPU, storage,networking, and others. This led to virtual machines combining these building blockstypically with an operating system.

Lets not stop there we can do so much more as we move up the software stack. Forexample, IBM Workload Deployer and its predecessor the WebSphere Cloudburst Appliancehave provided what we call Virtual System Patterns for three years now. The motivationbehind this is that although virtual machines are great there are very few businesssolutions that are only dependent upon a single virtual machine running some software.We saw a need to create an abstraction of a complete system with multiple federatedmachines to support complete application solutions provisioned as a single entity. Weprovide deep integration for complete systems built upon standards to support middlewareprovisioning; leveraging best practices, and based on our years of customer experience.We also provide utilities in an open, extendable structure to support customization andintegration of third-party solutions. This is all accomplished using a patterns-basedapproach with a very simple drag-and-drop interface. Once more, our competitors are juststarting to play catch-up here by introducing similar concepts with graphical user interfaces


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that allow you to build topologies of virtual systems. Its amusing to see how similar theylook to what weve had for years. I guess imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery.

Once again, we didnt stop there. We took the abstraction up a level higher and introducedapplication virtualization last year in our IBM Workload Deployer private cloud managementsolution. By application virtualization I mean providing the capabilities to abstract theapplication from the underlying infrastructure such that it can be elastic, highly available, andprovide agility across a pool of application infrastructure resources.

This type of application virtualization is built into our virtual application pattern (hence thename) an application-centric way of defining, provisioning, and managing the completelifecycle of your application. Features such as elasticity of the application itself and sharedservices to support non-functional requirements are delivered in policies using commonmetrics such as response time service level agreements (SLA). Requirements that arecommon for nearly any application, such as high availability, are baked right into the

solution without any definition required. Virtual application patterns support specific types ofapplications in a highly integrated solution integrated both on the front-end user interface,and on the back-end implementation of the running systems. Management is from anapplication perspective not focused on the various middle components that are necessaryto support the application. This a true platform as a service (PaaS) solution where IBMWorkload Deployer dynamically builds the necessary platform infrastructure to support thespecific needs of the application. I dont see anything similar in scope and user simplicityfrom our competitors theyll be playing catch-up yet again.

So this is what cloud computing is all about. It is about much more than simply virtualization it is about transforming the data center. It is about innovation and simplicity. IBM isincluding intelligence into the solutions that we provide and integrating the expertise we have

gained over years of experience right into those solutions to simplify IT for our customers.


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We are providing our customers with the IT for their business so that they dont have to be inthe business of IT themselves.But were not done yet! Youve no doubt heard a lot of buzz about our recently announcedexpert integrated systems and in particular IBM PureApplication System a system withbuilt-in expertise, integrated by design, and a simplified experience. As you can see wevebeen on this mission for a while and were continuing to build our expertise and knowledgeinto these systems to simplify IT. IBM PureSystems is here! To find out more visithttp ://ibm .co /HxXzwB.

Joe Bohn is a senior software architect at IBM. He is currently serving as a technicalevangelist for WebSphere cloud computing. Before becoming a technical evangelist, herepresented IBM on OSGi Alliance specifications and open source projects includingApache Aries and Apache Geronimo. Prior to these activities he worked in multiple productareas within IBM as architect, designer, team lead, and developer on a variety of IBMproducts including the Integrated Solutions Console, Tivoli Presentation Services, andmultiple Tivoli solutions.

End - to - End Cloud Offerings for LargeEnterprises

Cloud Computing JournalBySrinivasan Sundara Rajan

With cloud adoption becoming a de-facto option for small and medium enterprises, largeenterprises are relatively slower in their adoption of cloud. The main reason is that large

enterprises have a very complex existing IT setup and no single offering from various cloudproviders has yet to satisfy all their needs.However we find the recent announcements and offerings from IBM provide a perfectplatform for large enterprises to on board to Cloud to make their businesses more agile.Blueprint of Large Enterprises on Cloud-Enabled ITThe following reference architecture provides an overview of how the large enterpriseswould like to position their cloud-enabled IT so that they get best of their traditionaloperations while merging with the benefits of cloud.
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Mission-Critical WorkloadsThese will be bread and butter for any large enterprise IT. For example if the enterprise is inthe telecom domain, the workloads like provisioning, billing and network management will bea part of this workload category. If the enterprise is from the manufacturing domain, thenproduct life cycle management, warranty analysis, supply chain management will be a partof this.Large enterprises' utmost concern is the proper functioning of these workloads. Typicallyenterprises will receive the maximum benefit if these workloads are moved to private cloudswhich can handle heterogeneous platforms like mainframe, Unix flavors, Linux andWindows. Typically enterprises would like this workload to run without any changes evenafter migration to cloud.

Elastic WorkloadsThis is the new terminology coined to represent the workloads, which may not be 100%mission-critical for the enterprises, but are still important, but whose processing is dynamic innature and are the ones that benefit from the elastic nature of the public clouds. Exampleslike data warehousing systems, content management systems, massively parallelprocessing operations, consumer-facing web sites form part of this workload. This workloadwill receive the highest benefit for migrating into public clouds.

Consumable WorkloadsWith the great proliferation of SaaS (Software as a Service), enterprises have many avenuesto consume certain types of workloads directly from a public cloud without even hostingthem. Popular CRM software like Salesforce are good examples. There are so many other


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BpaaS players and situations that I have been covering separately in my Industry SaaSSeries' form part of this workload.

Cloud IntegrationWith the large enterprises running their business partly in on-premise private clouds andpartly on public clouds, robust application integration options are required to ensure that theapplications are in sync with each other and information generated out of the extendedenterprise is consistent and preserves the integrity across transactions.

Hybrid Environment ManagementWith the increased workload management across the public clouds and the new ways ofmonitoring the virtualization techniques adopted by private clouds, enterprises needed tomove away from the traditional ways of IT environment management and move towards ahybrid environment management.

Application Development Life Cycle for the Cloud EnvironmentNo enterprise can afford to be static with respect to their business capability needs. This

means the cloud-enabled IT has to rapidly expand to the new market needs. This is onlypossible if the application development platform is cloud-aware and can support both privatecloud deployment and public cloud deployment. The platform should also free enterprisesfrom future upgrades and maintenance activities so that enterprises can become truly agile.PaaS (Platform as a Service) is the best option for large enterprises in this regard.

Enterprise Innovation with CloudWhile the above mentioned components of the reference architecture are still part of thetraditional enterprises even without cloud in a different form, however in today's competitiveenvironment large enterprises needed some options which are truly innovative anddisruptive in nature. Cloud value proposition like high performance computing (HPC) andsome other research options form part of this.

IBM SmartCloud Product Mapping for the BlueprintSmartCloud is the IBM vision for cloud computing, which accelerates businesstransformation with capabilities from IBM cloud offerings. The following product mapping willhelp to realize the blue print for cloud enablement for large enterprises with the respectiveSmartCloud offerings.

Mission-Critical WorkloadsAs explained large enterprises will choose private clouds for running their mission criticalworkloads. IBM SmartCloud has a multitude of private cloud infrastructure and associatedsoftware options.

IBM SmartCloud Entry on Power Systems. It works with a client's existing Power

Systems infrastructure. IBM zEnterprise heterogeneous cloud solution IBMStarter Kit for Cloudx86 Edition

Additionally there are IBM SmartCloud Foundation infrastructure offerings that includeservers, storage and virtualization components for building private and hybrid cloudcomputing environment.Together the above options help an enterprise to run their mission critical, Mainframe, BigEndian Unix, Linux and Windows workloads on a private cloud.

Elastic WorkloadsPublic Cloud offerings form part of the management of these kinds of workloads. IBMSmartCloud Enterprise and Enterprise+ provide the enterprise class public cloud platforms,with the following major features.


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Greater choice and flexibility with Enterprise class operating systems and softwareimages

Availability and performance Security and isolation Payment and billing

Consumable WorkloadsSaaS and BpaaS offerings form part of this workload, and IBM SmartCloud has a variety ofSaaS offerings, and like any other community contributed application exchange this cangrow further in the future. Current offerings are categorized into:

Business Process Management Analytics Social Business Government Offerings Buying, Procurement and Sourcing Selling and Merchandising Marketing and Web Analytics

Other Business Process As A Service Payment and billingTo facilitate a collaborative ecosystem for more SaaS/ BpaaS products IBM ApplicationDevelopment Services For Cloud' help partners to develop new SaaS applications.

Cloud-Based IntegrationContinuous functioning of large enterprises on hybrid environments (i.e., public, privateclouds) is only possible if there are strong cloud integration platforms. WebSphere Cast IronCloud Integration is part of SmartCloud platform and enables cloud application to applicationintegration.

Hybrid Environment Management

IBM SmartCloud Monitoring is a cloud monitoring tool for cloud infrastructure as well as thevirtual servers running within it. SmartCloud Monitoring is designed to monitor very largeenvironments. Coverage for KVM, VMware, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop CitrixXenApp, Cisco UCS, NetApp.With respect to Public Cloud, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ provides robust managementoptions.

Application Development Life Cycle for Cloud EnvironmentsIBM SmartCloud Application Services allow your organization to develop, deploy, manageand integrate applications in the cloud. Initially, IBM SmartCloud Application Services willprovide initial support for Java, and expand to include PHP, Ruby, C, C++, .Net and otherslater. IBM SmartCloud Application Services portal, tooling will be provided to manage the

deployment and management of applications. In addition, Rational products will be availablefor application lifecycle management. The service will use the IBM DB2 Enterprise Edition9.7 database, which is Oracle-compatible. Data can be extracted from an Oracle databaseand moved into the DB2 database.

Enterprise Innovation with CloudThe HPC cloud offerings from IBM provide the methods and means to manage HPCinfrastructure using cloud computing technology. The HPC cloud offerings from IBMcomplement the IBM SmartCloud.

SummaryLot of material is available on the IBM site about the detailed offerings as part of IBMSmartCloud. The aim of this article is to position how the large enterprises can adopt to this


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robust cloud offering and can take comfort of an end-to-end offering, which will ensure thatthey handle any fear or uncertainty or doubt among the stake holders.

NoOps Is As Legitimate As DevOpsByKrishnan Subramanian on March 14, 2012Ever since Lucas Carlson, CEO of AppFog, brought the term NoOps into the focus ofdiscussion, there is quite a bit of backlash against the term. The debate sometimes bordersalong insanity and I thought I will add my 2 cents to this cacophony. In fact, this backlash isnothing new. Whenever I make a statement about the role of ops fading away in a cloudbased world, I get similar brickbats on Twitter and other online fora. Let me use this post toadd clarity to the point I am advocating with respect to Ops. Before the Ops guys and galspounce on me, I also want to highlight that I am not a developer and my background is onthe ops side. Having made it clear, let me add my thoughts on why NoOps is a legitimateuse of the term, much like DevOps.

Its all fine, what is NoOps, BTW?Regular readers of my blog know that I am bullish onPaaS being the future ofcloudservices. Right now, PaaS adoption is in the early adopter stage and in the next five years, itis expected to be mainstream in the enterprise. When that happens and enterprises adopthosted PaaS from providers like Heroku, Engine Yard, CloudBees, AppFog, Azure, etc.,there will be no need for enterprises to invest on operations as these PaaS offerings givesan interface to their developers which they can use to build and deploy their apps withoutworrying about the underlying infrastructure including security and scaling. This scenario iswhat Lucas calls as NoOps and I have also emphasized it on my posts with the sloganForget DevOps, embrace the damn PaaS.

So? What is the big deal?When such a transformation happens in the industry, the role of operations people is goingto be diminished compared to what it is today. Many ops people and pundits (with theirhearts on the operations side) take it personally and argue that NoOps is bordering on FUDand operations are not going away anytime. They push back against the term because itseems to suggest that operations are going to vanish in the coming years. Their argument isthat operations are critical part of these technologies including PaaS and SaaS and any termthat diminishes their value is just a marketing term with FUD value.

You are part of the marketing FUD, Huh?Not really. Whether we (pundits and ops people) like it or not, even the public cloud services

like AWS made ops people less visible. Gone or the days when a developer will put a helpdesk ticket and wait for IT to provision a server for his/her needs. Today, the self service partof the cloud offerings lets developers provision the instances needed for them with a fewclicks or an API call. Since public clouds offers them a way to operate the infrastructurethrough code, the DevOps movement came into picture calling the need for developers andops people to work together closely and cross pollinate. At the infrastructure services levelitself, the role of ops got reduced a bit. To put it in another way, from ops being the face ofIT and the go to folks for anything IT related, they were forced to take a reduced role in theDevOps culture. But, let us keep in mind that ops are critical to the very success ofinfrastructure cloud services. The only change from the traditional era is that they have giventhe limelight to service interfaces and do their magic (as usual) in the background helpingthe cloud service providers run their infrastructure smoothly. Not only they have faded into

the background, the number of ops people needed to run the infrastructure got drasticallyreduced due to the automation at scale. Cloud services pushed Ops from being the face of
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IT to the invisible face of IT. PaaS takes this one step further by making even DevOps lessrelevant because the PaaS providers absorb almost all of the operations underneath andoffer a simple interface for developers to deploy their apps. Hence, we are seeing the raiseof the term NoOps.

Makes sense. Why are Ops people whining then?Well, the reality is not so simple and there are many shades of grey. Yes, NoOps is amarketing term but it is a great term that clearly highlights what the service is offering. Ifterms like converged infrastructure, cloud computing, DevOps, etc. can be valid terms todescribe the respective offerings, NoOps is a very legitimate term to define what hostedPaaS offers organizations. However, the ground reality is different from a simplistic evolutionto hosted PaaS. In the next several years, we are going to see a complex evolution withmost of the workloads moving to clouds while some of them staying inside the firewall. Also,we are going to see a more federated ecosystem of infrastructure players. We will be seeingadoption of both hosted PaaS as well as Private PaaS (yet another term used to describethe platform layer put on top of private cloud infrastructure). All these different choices aregoing to give us an environment where the relevance of Ops will be visible in some cases

and invisible in others. In most cases, ops people will be in the background (on the serviceprovider side) and doing their magic quietly and the service interface is going to be the futureface of IT. DevOps will stay put as long as we have organizations wanting to have muchdeeper control over the infrastructure and even in the case of hosted PaaS, somedevelopers may need to assume operational responsibilities (albeit, very rarely). Since theground reality is a bit more complex and the NoOps term completely sweeps away the realityunder the carpet, people are getting upset. But it is time for them to get used to the term andthe decibel levels are going to rise as more and more organizations start embracing PaaS. Ifbuzz words can be a competitive advantage in a free market, NoOps is as legitimate asother terms like DevOps or Cloud. #justsayin

IBM Research Shows How the Cloudis Driving Business Model Innovation

CMS WireByBarb Mosher (@ barbmosher) Mar 8, 2012

The decision to move to the cloud has traditionally been about operational efficiency, butaccording toIBM 's research, we'll soon start to see organizations take advantage of the

cloud for business initiatives and that kind of stuff is a whole lot more fun.We had the opportunity to talk about the IBM study with one its authors, Saul Berman,Global Lead Partner for Strategy Consulting and Innovation and Growth for IBM GlobalBusiness Services. It's important to point out that this study was conducted from a businessperspective and not a technology perspective, which is a refreshing approach tounderstandinghow the cloud can work for your business.Editor's Note: Read the full study:Thepower ofcloud . Driving business model innovation(1.35 MB PDF)

The Power of the Cloud IBM StudyThis study was conducted through the IBM Institute for Business Value, in conjunction withthe Economist Intelligence Unit. It included 572 business and technology executives across
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the world, in organizations ranging from large (greater than US$ 20 billion) to small (lessthan US$ 1 billion). The results?That, although many organizations focuscloud initiatives on operational efficiency, we'll seethat slowly decrease over the next few years (from 55% to 31%) in favor of innovativebusiness plans, like new lines of business/industries, new pricing models and better partnercollaboration.When surveyed, here's what items topped the cloud adoption list for most organizations:

Tapping Into That PowerOne issue that has the ability to slow down the use of cloud models for innovation is thatmany organizations still see the cloud as an IT solution. But as its importance starts to reachfurther into the business, the opportunities available are being recognized.IBM notes six "game-changing" business enablers that will transform how organizationsleverage the cloud for business innovation, shown below:
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Cloud Enablement FrameworkIt's not a cloud maturity model, you aren't going to move your organization through eachphase:


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IBM Cloud Enablement Framework

The framework looks at two things: the customer value proposition and the value chain.Along each of these dimensions there are different types of organization models. You needto look internally and decide where in this model your organization fits. Are you:

An Optimizer: Optimizers are about enhancing what they have now and improvingoperational efficiency. They aren't ready to take the risks and therefore won't get therevenue and market share gains that Innovators or Disruptors will. But theopportunities are there to deepen relationships with customers and enhance productsand services.

An Innovator: Innovators take advantage of the cloud to greatly extend the valueproposition. This can change their role in the industry and/or lead to new markets orindustries. It's about extending what they have and transforming in ways that lead tonew revenue streams and market opportunities, thus gaining competitive advantage.

A Disruptor: For a Disruptor, it's about radical change, creating newmarkets/industries or disrupting existing ones. It's big risk for big reward.


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Berman says you can choose to evolve over time from one type to the next, but someorganizations are going to be innovative or disruptive from day one. He points to themedia/entertainment industry as an example of an industry where you might want to focusmore on innovation and disruption than worry about an existing business model that may beunder attack.

Cloud Computing Goes Far BeyondVirtualization

Virtualization vs. Private Cloud (Part 1)

Virtualization JournalByYung Chou

Virtualization vs.private cloud has confused many IT pros. Are they the same? Or different?

In what way and how? We have already virtualized most of my computing resources, is aprivate cloud still relevant to us? These are questions I have been frequently asked. Beforegetting the answers, in the first article of this two-part series listed below let's first go througha few concepts.

Part 1: Cloud Computing Goes Far Beyond Virtualization (This article)Part 2: A Private Cloud Delivers IT as a Service

Lately, many IT shops have introduced virtualization intoexisting computing environmentw. Consolidatingservers, mimicking production environment, virtualizingtest networks, securing resources with honey pots,

adding disaster recovery options, etc. are just a fewapplications of employing virtualization. Some also runhighly virtualized IT with automation provided by systemmanagement solutions. I imagine many IT prosrecognize the benefits of virtualization including betterutilization of servers, associated savings by reducing thephysical footprint, etc. Now we are moving into a cloud era, the question then becomes "Isvirtualization the same with a private cloud?" or "We are already running a highly virtualizedcomputing today, do we still need aprivate cloud?"The answers to these questions shouldalways start with "What business problems are you trying to address?" Then assess if aprivate cloud solution can fundamentally solve the problem, or perhaps virtualization issufficient. This is of course assuming there is a clear understanding of what isvirtualizationand what is aprivate cloud. This point is thatvirtualization and cloud computing are not thesame. They address IT challenges in different dimensions and operated in different scopeswith different levels of impact on a business.Virtualization

To make a long story short,virtualizationin the context of IT is to "isolate" computingresources such that an object (i.e. an application, a task, a component) in a layer above canbe possibly operated without a concern of those changes made in the layers below. Alengthy discussion of virtualization is beyond the scope of this article. Nonetheless, let mepoint out that the terms, virtualization, and "isolation" are chosen for specific reasons sincethere are technical discrepancies between "virtualization" and "emulation", "isolation" and

"redirection." Virtualization isolates computing resources, hence offers an opportunity torelocate and consolidate isolated resources for better utilization and higher efficiency.
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Cloud ComputingCloud computing on the other hand is an ability to make resources available on demand.There are statements made on what to expect in general from cloud computing. A definitionof cloud computing published inNIST SP -800-145 outlines the essential characteristics, howto deliver, and what kind of deployment models to be cloud-qualified.Chou further simplifiesit and offers a plain and simple way to describe cloud computing with the5-3-2 Principle asillustrated below.

The essence of cloud computing is rooted at the appreciation of a "service." In the context ofcloud computing, a service simply means the state of being available on demand.

So SaaS means software, i.e. an application, is available on demand and the focus is onfunctions available within and not beyond the application. PaaS provides a run-timeenvironment on demand and the scope becomes what are the common set of capabilitiesavailable on demand for applications deployed to this run-time environment. Since the run-

time environment is available on demand, an application deployed to the run-timeenvironment then can be brought to a running state on demand. Namely those applicationsdeployed to a PaaS environment are delivered, as a consequence, with SaaS. And IaaSdenotes infrastructure available on demand, which means the ability to provisioninfrastructure on demand. For IT professionals, provisioning infrastructure at an operationallevel translates to deploying servers. And in the context of cloud computing, all servers arevirtualized and deployed in the form of a virtual machines or VMs. So, IaaS ultimately is theability to deploy VMs on demand.

"On-demand" is not to be casually used. This is a loaded term with a strong connotation ofthe five essential characteristics of cloud computing. On-demand means high accessibilityand always-on readiness since it must be accessible and ready per SLA. In cloud, they arerepresented by self-service model and ubiquitous access. On-demand suggests there arelikely standardization, automation, optimization, and orchestration in place, which are
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presented collectively as resource pooling and elasticity. On-demand implies the need for auditing and metering, i.e.analytics, so capacity can be planned accordingly. And that iswhy consumption-based charge-back or show-back model isincluded inthe essential characteristics ofcloud computing.

Unequivocally DifferentWith what has been described above, to realize thefundamental differences betweenvirtualization and private

cloud becomes rather straightforward. Noticeably,virtualization is not based on the5-3-2principle as opposed to cloud computing is. For instance, a self-serving model is not anessential component invirtualization, while it is essential in cloud computing. One cancertainly argue somevirtualization solution may include a self-serving component. The pointis that self-service is not a necessary , nor sufficient condition forvirtualization. While incloud computing, self-service is a crucial concept to deliver anytime availability to user,

which is what a service is all about. Furthermore, self-service is an effective mechanism to in the long run reduce

training and support at all levels. It is a crucial vehicle toaccelerate the ROI of a cloud computing solution and makeit sustainable in the long run.

Virtualization is centered on virtual machines and rooted ininfrastructure management, operations, and deploymentflexibility.Virtualizationis about the abilities to consolidatingservers, managing VMs, streaming desktops, and so on.

How to productively configure, deploy, and manage a workload in a deployed VM andAt the same time, cloud is about "service"and "service" is about the readiness andresponsiveness relevant to market opportunities. Cloud is about go-to-market. Cloud focuseson making a requested LOB application available on demand and not just on just how to

deploy a VM. Cloud is interested in not only operating VMs, but providing insights of a targetapplication running in those VMs.No, virtualization is not cloud computing. And cloud goes far beyond virtualization. So whatare the specifics about virtualization vs. a private cloud? [To be continued inpart 2]

Yung Chou is currently a Sr. IT Pro Evangelist in Microsoft. Within the company, he has hadopportunities serving customers in the areas of support account management, technicalsupport, technical sales, and evangelism. Prior to Microsoft, he had established capacities insystem programming, application development, consulting services, and IT management.His recent technical focuses have been in virtualization and cloud computing with stronginterests in private cloud with service-based deployment and emerging enterprise computing

architecture. He is a frequent speaker in Microsoft conferences, roadshow, and TechNetevents.

Top 5 Things The Cloud Is Not

Peder Ulander

posted inBlog,Featured June 22, 2012 1:57 pm
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The cloud looks set to be the next king, but there are five things the cloud is not. Can youthink of others? Image:akakumo/FlickrIts clear that the technology industry is moving from the PC era to the cloud era in severalsignificant ways. While cloud represents a new way for IT to deliver and end users toconsume IT applications and services, this transition also represents a significant changein how applications, services and systems are defined. The move to cloud computing is themost important technology disruption since the transition from mainframe to client-server, or

even sinceAl Gore invented the internet. While industry veterans likeOracle s commanderin chiefdeclared it a fad, this is a decade-long trend that is here to stay, and one that willdefine the next generation of IT.

The movement itself has been in play for the last decade, however there continues to be alot of (mis)information in the marketplace about the cloud. So much so that it is difficult fororganizations to figure out what is real and what is not to help them develop a successfulcloud strategy, or simply learn about technologies that have been specifically designed andpurpose-built to meet this dramatic shift in technology. While its important to know what thecloud is, its just as important to separate the wheat from the chaff, and for IT to understandwhat cloud is not.

To this end, I encourage you not to add yet another definition of the cloud to your glossary,but to truly understand the top 5 things the cloud is not.

1. Cloud is not a place.People often talk about moving to the cloud as if they were moving to another city. But thecloud is not a place. In fact, the cloud can be anywhere, in your data center or someoneelses. Organizations that believe they are moving to a strategy that leaves legacy apps andsystems behind are in for a rude awakening. The single most important way for enterpriseorganizations to prepare themselves for the cloud is to understand that the cloud is aradically new way of delivering, consuming and adopting IT services in a far more agile,efficient, and cost-effective manner, which will spread throughout the ether and be a mix ofpublic, private, managed or hybrid clouds. By looking holistically at the cloud, organizationscan optimize its benefits for their budgets, privacy needs, geographies and overall businessneeds.
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2. Cloud is not server virtualization.Despite what many believe, and what many will tell you, the cloud is not the same as next-gen server virtualization. It doesnt surprise me that many believe that by virtualizing theirdata center they will create a private cloud. Some vendors are intentionally trying to blur thatline, aiming to convince customers that their vCenter clusters somehow deliver a privatecloud. On the contrary, that is a gross exaggeration of the term cloud.If you take a look at the way Amazon has built its cloud architecture, it becomes very clearthat there are some fairly stark differences between a server virtualization environment and atrue cloud architecture. While Amazon starts with Xen virtualization technology, the brains ofits architecture comes with a new layer of software that Amazon built in an effort to create anew control plane, a new cloud orchestration layer that can manage all the infrastructureresources (compute, storage, networking) across all of their data centers. This is at the heartof the clouds technology disruption. Some analysts refer to this as the hypervisor ofhypervisors, or a new software category of cloud system software.The fact of the matter is that some of the major players are doing cloud without servervirtualization. Take Google for example. They have deployed a cloud architecture that is not

using server virtualization, but rather a bare metal infrastructure. So while virtualization canbe an important ingredient of cloud, it is not always a requirement.

3. Cloud is not an island.Depending on what youre reading, youll hear a lot about public clouds versus privateclouds, and it may feel as if enterprises must make a wholesale decision on which way to go.But the cloud is not an island, it is not a place where you put all of your IT services, and thenlose all interconnectivity and access. The recent Amazon outages have proven this to be animportant point for any organization leveraging the cloud. The right cloud strategy will be onethat enables you to have a hybrid approach with the ability to easily connect private andpublic clouds. Even the recent move by NASA to include Amazon Web Services as part ofits cloud rollout after a significant investment in the build-out of its own technology proves

that the market is moving to open, interoperable multi-cloud environments.

4. Cloud is not top-down.The cloud has up-ended the traditional IT approach to delivering services. The lines ofbusiness have been leading the charge in making the decision to move to cloud computing.With specific needs to get to market quickly, functional business leaders are consumingcloud services to avoid traditional IT processes. But we dont need surveys to clarify thismovement. The reality is that with the simple swipe of a credit card and the creation of anaccount, end users can gain instant access to infinite pools of IT resource to help test out anew idea, get their job done or even become more agile in their daily work. This is part ofwhy this revolution is so powerful. TheConsumerization of IT is driving this new movement.Users are already there and the C-level offices are just now trying to catch up with them.

Those that embrace this move sooner rather than later will learn how to use the cloud as astrategic weapon before their competitors do. So the cloud is not top down, but rather abottoms-up phenomenon.

5. Cloud is not hype.As I started this piece, I wrote about the (mis)information that has flooded the market andslowed progression and adoption of the cloud for some organizations. Ive spoken withpeople in many organizations who are still skeptical of the cloud and believe that it issomething that is very far off into the future. No doubt there is a lot of noise in the marketwith many claiming early victory in the hearts and minds of developers, with open sourcemomentum, or beta products. The reality is that the cloud is ready now, and Citrix has morethan 100 organizations that are running clouds in production today. Companies likeAutoDesk, Edmunds.com, Nokia, Chatham Financial and others, already reaping thebenefits.
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My words of advice to companies considering a move to the cloud learn from others whohave already built highly scalable, successful clouds that have helped them transform theway they deliver and consume IT resources.This is just the beginning of the discussion. There are many more topics that we will continueto talk about in the coming weeks, months, years (such as, cloud is not only an infrastructureand cloud is not just for service providers). All with the goal of helping organizations and themarket understand what the cloud is and what it is not.

Peder Ulander is vice president of product marketing for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix,overseeing the companys marketing strategy for its cloud infrastructure and servervirtualization products.

CIOs Don 't Need to Be BusinessLeaders

Given the complexity of today's applications, it'sfolly to suggest that the future role of the CIO isless technical and more businesslike, columnistBernard Golden writes. If anything, it's theopposite -- the business side of the enterpriseshould embrace technology.

By Bernard GoldenFri, May 18, 2012

It seems like every week I come across an article stating that being a CIO means thinkingmore like a business person and less like an engineer. Often I see articles that say that CIOsneed to talk the language of business, not technology. Occasionally I'll see one that saysthat CIOs need to be business leaders and stop focusing on technology.I have seen pieces asserting that future heads of IT will be from disciplines such asmarketing or finance, since technology really isn't that important anymore. I've even seenanalyses that say that CIOs no longer need to manage technically capable organizationsbecause infrastructure is being offloaded to outsourcers and on-premise applications arebeing displaced by SaaS applications.

The implication of all these viewpoints is that technology qua technologyis no longersignificant and that, overall, it's so standardized and commoditized that it can be treated likeany other area of the business. In fact, it can be managed by someone with no technicalbackground at all.

The general rap against technical IT executives is that they talk about technology too muchand fail to communicate with CEOs in so-called "business terms." The thinking is that CIOsfail to use the language of business and thereby boreor, worse, alienateCEOs, with theresult that CIOs are dismissed from the inner ranks of corporations.If only CIOs could learn to communicate in business terms, the argument goes, then theywould be accepted into the inner circle, embraced by CEOs no longer discomfited bytechnical jargon.
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