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Getting More Out of the Cloud with
        Platform as a Service




                                   Executive Brief
                                  Sponsored by IBM




                   January 2012    www.frost.com
Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan




                                           GETTING MORE OUT OF THE CLOUD WITH
                                                  PLATFORM AS A SERVICE



                                INTRODUCTION


                                If you ask a group of IT leaders about their strategic goals, their responses will likely
                                address business growth. Today’s IT leaders understand they have an unprecedented
                                stake in corporate success, thanks to transformational IT-led business trends such as
                                social networking and crowdsourcing, m-commerce and virtual teaming, analytics-driven
                                decision making and “everything as a service.” For these leaders, “innovation” and
                                “agility” are not just words on a PowerPoint slide, but a mandate for corporate value and
                                differentiation.

                                If you ask the same group of leaders about their challenges, most of the answers can be
                                boiled down to cost and complexity. Like all business leaders, IT is being asked to do more
                                with less, to upgrade legacy technologies and develop new applications in record time,
                                with budgets that are flat or nearly so. At the same time, the IT environment is becoming
                                increasingly complex. Today’s IT leaders must develop and deploy applications that
                                support a range of corporate and user-owned devices, that can be delivered locally and
                                via the network with optimal performance, and that integrate valuable business
                                functionality, such as analytics. The physical and logical complexity of the new IT
                                environment does more than add cost and management resources. Of greater concern—
                                it inhibits business agility. Every newly automated or upgraded business application
                                requires an extended development and test timeline, with shortcut attempts resulting in
                                quality compromises. No wonder Line of Business managers often consider IT a
                                stumbling block to business growth.

                                Savvy IT leaders understand that they cannot succeed in the new, hypercompetitive
                                business world using old-line processes for application development and deployment.
                                They are looking to shorten the development timeline; foster innovative thinking and
                                collaboration among stakeholders; increase functionality; improve quality and reduce
                                launch-delaying bugs. And they want to deliver the data and analysis tools the business
                                needs to measure its performance.

                                Increasingly, IT leaders are finding the solution they need in the cloud—specifically, in a
                                robust Platform as a Service offer.

                                In this white paper, we look at how PaaS can streamline and enhance the development
                                and delivery of corporate applications. With a focus on IBM SmartCloud solutions, we
                                examine how the right platform can help a corporation build a solid foundation for
                                corporate growth.




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DEFINING PLATFORM AS A SE RVICE (PAAS)



As shown in Figure 1, the standard industry definition for the cloud includes three
service layers: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a
Service.

Figure 1: Cloud Ser vices Mode l




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Most users interface with the cloud through the upper and lower layers. Consumers and
business users use their Internet browser to interface with their favorite SaaS apps. Data
center managers utilize IaaS services to augment the computing and storage capacity in
their own data centers.

But what is going on in the middle layer of PaaS? The industry has yet to agree on a
standard definition. As a result, platform providers use the term to cover any and every
type of middleware, regardless of functionality or scope.

We define PaaS as network-based software used for building, running, integrating,
delivering, and managing applications. PaaS solutions usually include tools, Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs), and templates that make it easier for application
developers, managers, and providers to build, run, and manage their software.



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                                As with other cloud services, most PaaS services are available to users on demand, with
                                the PaaS provider responsible for managing the hardware and software that support the
                                PaaS functions.


                                PaaS Functionality

                                Commercial PaaS offers reflect a range of functionality levels, including middleware,
                                automated services and fully managed services. Many PaaS services target the developer
                                community, with templates designed to facilitate application development. Others were
                                designed to help enterprises or third-party providers manage SaaS applications. Providers
                                (and platforms) fall into one or more of several camps:

                                   ▪   Development platforms – The first PaaS services, and some of the best
                                       known, were launched by successful software and application vendors who
                                       opened their platforms to commercial and corporate developers. These include
                                       the Google App Engine, which enables software developers to create applications
                                       that complement or enhance Google’s own applications. Salesforce.com opened
                                       its proprietary platform, called force.com, to commercial and corporate
                                       developers who wanted to build custom functionality into the popular CRM
                                       software. Microsoft Azure provides a platform for developing, scaling and running
                                       Web-based applications.

                                   ▪   IaaS-based     management       platforms    – Under a broader definition of
                                       “platform,” the basic tools offered by IaaS providers may be considered a
                                       middleware platform. Some IaaS providers, such as Amazon Beanstalk, have
                                       enhanced their IaaS services by layering on a limited set of infrastructure
                                       management tools and functionality, including load balancing, capacity scaling, and
                                       monitoring. When corporate developers upload their applications into the
                                       developer’s IaaS, they can access the PaaS functionality to run their software.
                                       Actual functionality varies by provider, with the scope of functionality usually
                                       limited to workloads hosted on the IaaS provider’s public cloud.

                                   ▪   Aggregation platforms – Some PaaS providers offer a platform that aggregates
                                       or integrates the provider’s own software with users’ applications and even
                                       commercial applications. One example is a marketplace or store for distribution
                                       of software developed via its PaaS. Corporate developers can upload their own
                                       custom apps into the provider’s platform for distribution to employees via a
                                       portal. The provider may offer wrap-around application services, such as security
                                       or backup and recovery, as part of the integrated bundle. Similarly, providers of
                                       IT and telecom management systems have taken their licensed software to the
                                       cloud, offering platforms that automate billing and administrative functions for
                                       commercial or custom software, and sometimes enable limited customization.
                                       Some providers offer hosted versions of their software for enterprises; others
                                       sell their multi-tenant platforms to third-party communications or managed




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         services vendors, who, in turn, develop their own branded PaaS offers for
         enterprises. HP, Alcatel-Lucent, and Parallels are providers of management
         platforms.


PaaS Benefits

The best PaaS platforms facilitate development and delivery of corporate applications.
Enterprises that select PaaS for development benefit from:

    ▪    Decreased development time – Easily replicable, preconfigured images enable
         developers to minimize routine coding, significantly cutting time-to-deployment.
         Additional application instances can be deployed immediately, for uses such as
         testing or a training environment. Where teaming tools are built into the
         development platform, stakeholders have the added benefit of real-time review
         and collaboration.

    ▪    Deferral or avoidance of hardware purchases – As a cloud-based service,
         PaaS offers scalable resources that can meet unpredictable and seasonal demand,
         eliminating the need to invest in hardware for peak usage. Furthermore, the
         service is budget-friendly, drawing from operating expenses rather than the
         capital budget.

    ▪    Increased quality and control – Development managers can ensure that
         preconfigured images align with corporate requirements for security.
         Furthermore, by using a clean, consistent image of the app for testing and
         debugging, developers can avoid inadvertently introducing errors and vulnerable
         code during multiple test iterations.

    ▪    Test environments that closely mirror the delivery environment –
         Because cloud is elastic, applications can be tested at the same scale as the
         production environment, eliminating a common cause of rollout problems.

    ▪    Reduced risk in a cloud environment – For all their cost and agility benefits,
         certain shared cloud services, such as Software as a Service and public
         Infrastructure as a Service, introduce more risk—including data loss and leakage,
         unauthorized access, and availability issues—than many enterprises are
         comfortable with. For these businesses, PaaS offers a more controlled
         environment, in which the enterprise IT department—not the SaaS provider or
         cloud provider—is able to establish, maintain, and monitor a consistent security
         profile and performance specifications. This enables enterprises to leverage the
         cloud with confidence.

    ▪    An environment that fosters innovation – Interestingly, some developers
         are fearful that the pre-set templates of most PaaS offers will stifle, rather than
         foster creativity. In fact, the opposite is true, provided the PaaS platform has an
         expansive library of images. Rather than restricting the creativity of developers,



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                                       the pre-configured images remove the repetitive “grunt work” from the
                                       development process, freeing developers to focus on innovative solutions.


                                Using PaaS to Optimize IT

                                The challenge with most of the PaaS offers available today is that they solve only pockets
                                of IT problems—that is, they may only streamline automation of a new business process,
                                or they may only enable management of a single cloud environment.

                                But that’s not the environment most enterprises operate in. Enterprises devote
                                considerable resources to managing mission-critical systems, like SAP and web
                                applications, that long predated the cloud era. Furthermore, they manage multiple data
                                center environments, which generally have separate administrative consoles. In this real-
                                life IT environment, a PaaS solution may not be part of the solution—and in fact, may be
                                part of the problem.

                                But suppose PaaS could solve real challenges faced by IT departments? Suppose PaaS
                                could optimize not only pockets of cloud-based services, but all of IT? Suppose PaaS not
                                only facilitated deployment of an application without dedicated hardware, but also made
                                it easier to build, deploy and manage the app itself? To do all that, a PaaS must be built
                                on a fully integrated cloud foundation, like IBM SmartCoud.




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ABOUT IBM SMARTCLOUD


The IBM SmartCloud is a fully integrated portfolio of services that represents the entire
cloud service stack. As shown in Figure 2, IBM SmartCloud consists of three “pillars” or
service families.

Figure 2: IBM SmartCloud




                                                                               Source: IBM



SmartCloud Foundation comprises hardware and software that enterprises can use to
deploy on-premises private clouds and/or to connect their private clouds with hosted
clouds in a hybrid configuration.

SmartCloud Services includes the SmartCloud Enterprise public (shared) cloud offer, a
secure, virtual machine-based Infrastructure service, as well as SmartCloud Enterprise —
a hosted, managed private cloud service.

Both the SmartCloud Foundation and the SmartCloud Services offer fully integrated
infrastructure and platform, enabling enterprises to not only deploy their apps in
whichever cloud environment they choose, but also to build and manage them.

The third component of the SmartCloud family is IBM SmartCloud Solutions, SaaS-
based services from IBM’s rich legacy of enterprise software.




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                                With its SmartCloud family of services, IBM differentiates itself from other cloud
                                providers in two important ways:

                                   ▪   Not only is IBM one of few companies that provides solutions for each part of
                                       the cloud stack—infrastructure, platform, and software—but the company has
                                       fully integrated its infrastructure and platform layers. This increases the value of
                                       the cloud for enterprises, which can do more than simply deploy their
                                       applications; they can also build and manage their applications in the cloud.

                                   ▪   Furthermore, IBM is unique in enabling enterprises to build on-premises private
                                       clouds and hybrid clouds that are fully interoperable with the public and hosted
                                       private cloud offers. This flexibility in deployment reduces the complexity of IT
                                       management, enabling applications and workloads to be moved across cloud
                                       environments and managed via a single console.


                                IBM SMARTCLOUD APPLICATION SERVICES: GETTING THE MOST
                                FROM THE CLOUD


                                IBM introduced SmartCloud Application Services as part of the SmartCloud portfolio,
                                and a logical extension of the SmartCloud Enterprise and Enterprise                cloud
                                infrastructure services. SmartCloud Application Services is an integrated PaaS offer that
                                enables enterprises to maximize the benefits of the cloud across applications and
                                environments.

                                While most PaaS services are limited in scope and functionality, IBM’s SmartCloud
                                Application Services offers a comprehensive array of tools for developing, deploying,
                                managing and integrating corporate applications. With support for the full range of IT
                                environments (including private and public clouds, on-premises and hosted), the services
                                simplify installation, setup, and configuration of applications and management tools,
                                regardless of the underlying infrastructure environment. As such, SmartCloud Application
                                Services can simplify and strengthen the entire IT environment, offering a consistent and
                                flexible set of capabilities that enable enterprises to respond more quickly to changing
                                market needs.

                                As shown in Figure 3 below, the service comprises five capability areas, which
                                enterprises can adopt independently or collectively. The modular approach allows
                                enterprises to choose the elements they need, depending on where they are in their
                                cloud deployment, and add or subtract later, as their needs change.




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Figure 3: IBM SmartCloud Application Services




                                                                                     Source: IBM



The five categories of capabilities include:

      ▪    Application Lifecycle – This set of capabilities, based on IBM Rational
           technology, includes not only development tools (e.g., templates and APIs) but
           also collaboration tools. The development tools improve speed-to-market by
           allowing developers to reduce repetitive coding tasks, replacing them with
           packaged templates. More importantly, the toolset includes integrated “teaming”
           tools that facilitate collaboration among developers. This includes the shared
           ability to review code and track results, even among non-technical stakeholders.
           The application lifecycle tools foster business agility and innovation, while
           improving quality of software and reducing errors.

      ▪    Application         Resources   –   The   cloud   era   has   brought   with   it   an
           acknowledgement that IT doesn’t have to be homegrown; that enterprises can
           benefit from shared facilities and services without losing a competitive edge.
           IBM’s Application Resources allow enterprises to reduce costs and simplify
           deployment of common application resources, such as database and backup
           services.

      ▪    Application        Environments – Deploying self-contained applications is a
           common usage for cloud services. The Application Environments capability
           automates and facilitates the deployment of apps through a simple interface. The



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                                        user selects a pre-configured pattern for the type of app to be deployed (e.g.,
                                        Web applications, database apps) and selects appropriate performance-related
                                        configurations (e.g., throughput). IBM’s PaaS creates and deploys the virtual
                                        machine, allocating appropriate resources (e.g., load balancing). Integrated
                                        monitoring agents track performance, automatically increasing resources as
                                        needed to maintain specified performance levels. For enterprises, this capability
                                        hastens time to deploy applications—as well as deployment of duplicate
                                        instances for testing or training—and ensures more consistent performance of
                                        the deployed apps.

                                    ▪   Application Management – For many enterprises, the lifeblood of their
                                        businesses is a powerful enterprise resource planning system such as SAP.
                                        Despite the potential benefits that could be derived, they often hesitate to move
                                        such critical systems into the cloud, fearing disruption of operations. For these
                                        businesses, IBM has launched Application Management services focused on
                                        specific third-party enterprise applications. Initially supporting SAP, the service
                                        offers application-specific patterns and configurations that enable users to deploy
                                        their critical SAP workloads in the cloud. The capability leverages IBM’s
                                        expertise in SAP deployments, while enabling enterprises to take full advantage
                                        of cloud efficiencies.

                                    ▪   Integration – To maximize productivity and efficiency, employees need to
                                        access common applications from within other applications, which requires
                                        broad deployment of application service interfaces. Unfortunately, such
                                        integration usually means time- and resource-intense custom coding. That’s
                                        where IBM SmartCloud Application Services can make a big difference. The
                                        Integration capability enables enterprises to integrate new and legacy
                                        applications without requiring coding. The capability includes standard
                                        “connectors” for off-the-shelf software, as well as “builder” templates that
                                        utilize a graphical interface to facilitate integration into custom applications. As a
                                        result, businesses can quickly and easily integrate a SugarCRM application into
                                        SAP, for example. The Integration capability not only facilitates development and
                                        deployment; it also enables businesses to improve productivity—allowing them
                                        to “connect the dots” between disparate business functions more easily, and
                                        providing the visibility and analysis tools they need to make smart business
                                        decisions.

                                IBM SmartCloud Application Services offer enterprises the following unique benefits:

                                •   Cross-platform support – IBM’s PaaS supports the full range of corporate IT
                                    environments, providing visibility and management tools for corporate cloud
                                    applications, whether they are hosted in private, public, or hybrid clouds. Because
                                    IBM’s PaaS technologies and IaaS technologies are fully integrated, the service offers
                                    an unprecedented degree of visibility into IaaS-based virtual machines.




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•   Robust library – IBM SmartCloud users have access to a robust and continually
    updated library of templates and APIs to facilitate development.

•   SAP management – IBM SmartCloud Application Services enable enterprises to
    streamline management and maintenance of their current mission critical applications,
    with SAP as the first application being supported. This valuable capability enables
    enterprises to leverage the benefits of the cloud—including ease of management and
    avoidance of hardware maintenance—for commercial applications, without giving up
    control or customization that is a by-product of SaaS deployments. By placing SAP in
    the IBM cloud, enterprises experience reduced time and cost associated with SAP
    maintenance tasks, including cloning, testing, patching, and refreshing. Because the
    deployments are managed by IBM SAP experts, enterprises can minimize risk
    associated with migration.

•   Common Core Technology – IBM uses the same underlying technology for its
    private and public cloud solutions, including IBM SmartCloud Foundation for
    deploying on-premises private clouds, as well as IBM Enterprise and Enterprise
    infrastructure services, and the SmartCloud Application Services platform. The
    technologies include robust capabilities such as IBM Workload Deployer, Cast Iron,
    DB2 and Rational tools, which are fully integrated into the platform. This helps
    ensure seamless application portability across the full spectrum of cloud delivery
    models.


WHY IBM?


Leveraging its reputation as a technology leader serving the world’s largest enterprises,
IBM is executing a cloud strategy that well positions the company as the leading cloud
provider for enterprises. As enterprises increasingly seek to deploy cloud services, not
just for trials but for their production environments, they can turn to IBM for solutions
that address their concerns and meet their future needs.

Among the advantages offered by IBM are:

    ▪    Leadership in enterprise cloud services – With over 20 years of experience
         managing mission-critical applications for enterprises, it’s not surprising that IBM
         launched the industry’s first set of enterprise-grade cloud services. Today, its
         cloud services portfolio is second to none. IBM continues to invest in its
         enterprise cloud vision, with tightly integrated services that span infrastructure,
         platform, and software layers, and support private, public, and hybrid cloud
         environments. Furthermore, IBM’s expertise in managed and professional services
         allows the company to provide expert guidance to the large number of companies
         that are seeking assistance in developing a cloud strategy. Professional services




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                                    include cloud strategy and roadmap development, risk assessments, and cloud
                                    implementation services.

                                ▪   Unmatched Service Level Agreements (SLAs) – At a time when most cloud
                                    providers are unsure whether and how to develop service level agreements, IBM
                                    continues to lead the way. As with other IBM cloud services, the company has
                                    adopted meaningful SLAs based on workload performance within its SmartCloud
                                    Application Services.

                                ▪   Leader in security solutions – In our networked and collaborative world,
                                    with anytime-anywhere access to applications, security is no longer an
                                    afterthought, but a critical element to be built into every workload, application,
                                    and toolset. IBM’s Security Framework ensures that robust and flexible security
                                    components are built into each solution.

                                ▪   Leader in developer community initiatives – IBM is building a broad
                                    ecosystem of partners who are building their solutions on the IBM SmartCloud
                                    platform and extending the IBM SmartCloud platform with additional capabilities
                                    and services. In addition, IBM’s developerWorks program offers tools and
                                    resources for commercial and in-house developers.




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                                           Stratecast
                                          The Last Word

  For forward-looking IT leaders, the cloud is not a technology to be pursued for its
  own sake; instead, the cloud represents a means to grow and differentiate the
  business. Unfortunately, most cloud infrastructure and software services on the
  market today make it difficult to achieve that lofty goal. In fact, they may have the
  opposite effect, merely adding yet another development or delivery environment to
  be managed by the already-overburdened IT staff.

  However, a new view of a flexible, integrated cloud is being introduced by IBM, one
  that enables enterprises to enter the cloud with confidence. Through its new PaaS
  offer, SmartCloud Application Services, IBM offers enterprises the capability to
  develop, deploy, manage and integrate corporate applications—regardless of
  operating system or environment.

  SmartCloud Application Services facilitate application development, with unique
  collaboration tools that enable even non-technical stakeholders to participate in
  quality reviews. To maximize performance of applications, the PaaS includes
  management and monitoring tools that offer high levels of visibility and control over
  multiple environments. Furthermore, because enterprises expend considerable time
  and employee resources in managing mission-critical legacy apps, SmartCloud
  Application Services includes prepackaged application environments for commercial
  business applications, beginning with SAP.

  SmartCloud Application Services helps enterprises get the most from the cloud,
  allowing them to realize the benefits of cost containment and rapid deployment of
  applications, while minimizing risk. Even more important to IT leaders, the IBM PaaS
  solution enables them to achieve business goals: to respond more quickly to the
  changing marketplace, to rapidly deploy innovative ways to connect with customers,
  and to foster collaboration among partners and employees.

  With SmartCloud Application Services, IBM has shown that a robust PaaS can provide
  more than a set of development tools. In the hands of a savvy IT leader, it can
  become the platform that optimizes IT in the cloud.




   Lynda Stadtmueller
   Program Manager - Cloud Computing Services
   Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan
   lstadtmueller@stratecast.com




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Getting More Out of the Cloud with Platform as a Service

  • 1. Getting More Out of the Cloud with Platform as a Service Executive Brief Sponsored by IBM January 2012 www.frost.com
  • 2. Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan GETTING MORE OUT OF THE CLOUD WITH PLATFORM AS A SERVICE INTRODUCTION If you ask a group of IT leaders about their strategic goals, their responses will likely address business growth. Today’s IT leaders understand they have an unprecedented stake in corporate success, thanks to transformational IT-led business trends such as social networking and crowdsourcing, m-commerce and virtual teaming, analytics-driven decision making and “everything as a service.” For these leaders, “innovation” and “agility” are not just words on a PowerPoint slide, but a mandate for corporate value and differentiation. If you ask the same group of leaders about their challenges, most of the answers can be boiled down to cost and complexity. Like all business leaders, IT is being asked to do more with less, to upgrade legacy technologies and develop new applications in record time, with budgets that are flat or nearly so. At the same time, the IT environment is becoming increasingly complex. Today’s IT leaders must develop and deploy applications that support a range of corporate and user-owned devices, that can be delivered locally and via the network with optimal performance, and that integrate valuable business functionality, such as analytics. The physical and logical complexity of the new IT environment does more than add cost and management resources. Of greater concern— it inhibits business agility. Every newly automated or upgraded business application requires an extended development and test timeline, with shortcut attempts resulting in quality compromises. No wonder Line of Business managers often consider IT a stumbling block to business growth. Savvy IT leaders understand that they cannot succeed in the new, hypercompetitive business world using old-line processes for application development and deployment. They are looking to shorten the development timeline; foster innovative thinking and collaboration among stakeholders; increase functionality; improve quality and reduce launch-delaying bugs. And they want to deliver the data and analysis tools the business needs to measure its performance. Increasingly, IT leaders are finding the solution they need in the cloud—specifically, in a robust Platform as a Service offer. In this white paper, we look at how PaaS can streamline and enhance the development and delivery of corporate applications. With a focus on IBM SmartCloud solutions, we examine how the right platform can help a corporation build a solid foundation for corporate growth. 2 January 2012 © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved.
  • 3. Getting More Out of the Cloud with PaaS DEFINING PLATFORM AS A SE RVICE (PAAS) As shown in Figure 1, the standard industry definition for the cloud includes three service layers: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Figure 1: Cloud Ser vices Mode l Source: Stratecast Most users interface with the cloud through the upper and lower layers. Consumers and business users use their Internet browser to interface with their favorite SaaS apps. Data center managers utilize IaaS services to augment the computing and storage capacity in their own data centers. But what is going on in the middle layer of PaaS? The industry has yet to agree on a standard definition. As a result, platform providers use the term to cover any and every type of middleware, regardless of functionality or scope. We define PaaS as network-based software used for building, running, integrating, delivering, and managing applications. PaaS solutions usually include tools, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and templates that make it easier for application developers, managers, and providers to build, run, and manage their software. © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved. January 2012 3
  • 4. Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan As with other cloud services, most PaaS services are available to users on demand, with the PaaS provider responsible for managing the hardware and software that support the PaaS functions. PaaS Functionality Commercial PaaS offers reflect a range of functionality levels, including middleware, automated services and fully managed services. Many PaaS services target the developer community, with templates designed to facilitate application development. Others were designed to help enterprises or third-party providers manage SaaS applications. Providers (and platforms) fall into one or more of several camps: ▪ Development platforms – The first PaaS services, and some of the best known, were launched by successful software and application vendors who opened their platforms to commercial and corporate developers. These include the Google App Engine, which enables software developers to create applications that complement or enhance Google’s own applications. Salesforce.com opened its proprietary platform, called force.com, to commercial and corporate developers who wanted to build custom functionality into the popular CRM software. Microsoft Azure provides a platform for developing, scaling and running Web-based applications. ▪ IaaS-based management platforms – Under a broader definition of “platform,” the basic tools offered by IaaS providers may be considered a middleware platform. Some IaaS providers, such as Amazon Beanstalk, have enhanced their IaaS services by layering on a limited set of infrastructure management tools and functionality, including load balancing, capacity scaling, and monitoring. When corporate developers upload their applications into the developer’s IaaS, they can access the PaaS functionality to run their software. Actual functionality varies by provider, with the scope of functionality usually limited to workloads hosted on the IaaS provider’s public cloud. ▪ Aggregation platforms – Some PaaS providers offer a platform that aggregates or integrates the provider’s own software with users’ applications and even commercial applications. One example is a marketplace or store for distribution of software developed via its PaaS. Corporate developers can upload their own custom apps into the provider’s platform for distribution to employees via a portal. The provider may offer wrap-around application services, such as security or backup and recovery, as part of the integrated bundle. Similarly, providers of IT and telecom management systems have taken their licensed software to the cloud, offering platforms that automate billing and administrative functions for commercial or custom software, and sometimes enable limited customization. Some providers offer hosted versions of their software for enterprises; others sell their multi-tenant platforms to third-party communications or managed 4 January 2012 © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved.
  • 5. Getting More Out of the Cloud with PaaS services vendors, who, in turn, develop their own branded PaaS offers for enterprises. HP, Alcatel-Lucent, and Parallels are providers of management platforms. PaaS Benefits The best PaaS platforms facilitate development and delivery of corporate applications. Enterprises that select PaaS for development benefit from: ▪ Decreased development time – Easily replicable, preconfigured images enable developers to minimize routine coding, significantly cutting time-to-deployment. Additional application instances can be deployed immediately, for uses such as testing or a training environment. Where teaming tools are built into the development platform, stakeholders have the added benefit of real-time review and collaboration. ▪ Deferral or avoidance of hardware purchases – As a cloud-based service, PaaS offers scalable resources that can meet unpredictable and seasonal demand, eliminating the need to invest in hardware for peak usage. Furthermore, the service is budget-friendly, drawing from operating expenses rather than the capital budget. ▪ Increased quality and control – Development managers can ensure that preconfigured images align with corporate requirements for security. Furthermore, by using a clean, consistent image of the app for testing and debugging, developers can avoid inadvertently introducing errors and vulnerable code during multiple test iterations. ▪ Test environments that closely mirror the delivery environment – Because cloud is elastic, applications can be tested at the same scale as the production environment, eliminating a common cause of rollout problems. ▪ Reduced risk in a cloud environment – For all their cost and agility benefits, certain shared cloud services, such as Software as a Service and public Infrastructure as a Service, introduce more risk—including data loss and leakage, unauthorized access, and availability issues—than many enterprises are comfortable with. For these businesses, PaaS offers a more controlled environment, in which the enterprise IT department—not the SaaS provider or cloud provider—is able to establish, maintain, and monitor a consistent security profile and performance specifications. This enables enterprises to leverage the cloud with confidence. ▪ An environment that fosters innovation – Interestingly, some developers are fearful that the pre-set templates of most PaaS offers will stifle, rather than foster creativity. In fact, the opposite is true, provided the PaaS platform has an expansive library of images. Rather than restricting the creativity of developers, © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved. January 2012 5
  • 6. Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan the pre-configured images remove the repetitive “grunt work” from the development process, freeing developers to focus on innovative solutions. Using PaaS to Optimize IT The challenge with most of the PaaS offers available today is that they solve only pockets of IT problems—that is, they may only streamline automation of a new business process, or they may only enable management of a single cloud environment. But that’s not the environment most enterprises operate in. Enterprises devote considerable resources to managing mission-critical systems, like SAP and web applications, that long predated the cloud era. Furthermore, they manage multiple data center environments, which generally have separate administrative consoles. In this real- life IT environment, a PaaS solution may not be part of the solution—and in fact, may be part of the problem. But suppose PaaS could solve real challenges faced by IT departments? Suppose PaaS could optimize not only pockets of cloud-based services, but all of IT? Suppose PaaS not only facilitated deployment of an application without dedicated hardware, but also made it easier to build, deploy and manage the app itself? To do all that, a PaaS must be built on a fully integrated cloud foundation, like IBM SmartCoud. 6 January 2012 © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved.
  • 7. Getting More Out of the Cloud with PaaS ABOUT IBM SMARTCLOUD The IBM SmartCloud is a fully integrated portfolio of services that represents the entire cloud service stack. As shown in Figure 2, IBM SmartCloud consists of three “pillars” or service families. Figure 2: IBM SmartCloud Source: IBM SmartCloud Foundation comprises hardware and software that enterprises can use to deploy on-premises private clouds and/or to connect their private clouds with hosted clouds in a hybrid configuration. SmartCloud Services includes the SmartCloud Enterprise public (shared) cloud offer, a secure, virtual machine-based Infrastructure service, as well as SmartCloud Enterprise — a hosted, managed private cloud service. Both the SmartCloud Foundation and the SmartCloud Services offer fully integrated infrastructure and platform, enabling enterprises to not only deploy their apps in whichever cloud environment they choose, but also to build and manage them. The third component of the SmartCloud family is IBM SmartCloud Solutions, SaaS- based services from IBM’s rich legacy of enterprise software. © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved. January 2012 7
  • 8. Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan With its SmartCloud family of services, IBM differentiates itself from other cloud providers in two important ways: ▪ Not only is IBM one of few companies that provides solutions for each part of the cloud stack—infrastructure, platform, and software—but the company has fully integrated its infrastructure and platform layers. This increases the value of the cloud for enterprises, which can do more than simply deploy their applications; they can also build and manage their applications in the cloud. ▪ Furthermore, IBM is unique in enabling enterprises to build on-premises private clouds and hybrid clouds that are fully interoperable with the public and hosted private cloud offers. This flexibility in deployment reduces the complexity of IT management, enabling applications and workloads to be moved across cloud environments and managed via a single console. IBM SMARTCLOUD APPLICATION SERVICES: GETTING THE MOST FROM THE CLOUD IBM introduced SmartCloud Application Services as part of the SmartCloud portfolio, and a logical extension of the SmartCloud Enterprise and Enterprise cloud infrastructure services. SmartCloud Application Services is an integrated PaaS offer that enables enterprises to maximize the benefits of the cloud across applications and environments. While most PaaS services are limited in scope and functionality, IBM’s SmartCloud Application Services offers a comprehensive array of tools for developing, deploying, managing and integrating corporate applications. With support for the full range of IT environments (including private and public clouds, on-premises and hosted), the services simplify installation, setup, and configuration of applications and management tools, regardless of the underlying infrastructure environment. As such, SmartCloud Application Services can simplify and strengthen the entire IT environment, offering a consistent and flexible set of capabilities that enable enterprises to respond more quickly to changing market needs. As shown in Figure 3 below, the service comprises five capability areas, which enterprises can adopt independently or collectively. The modular approach allows enterprises to choose the elements they need, depending on where they are in their cloud deployment, and add or subtract later, as their needs change. 8 January 2012 © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved.
  • 9. Getting More Out of the Cloud with PaaS Figure 3: IBM SmartCloud Application Services Source: IBM The five categories of capabilities include: ▪ Application Lifecycle – This set of capabilities, based on IBM Rational technology, includes not only development tools (e.g., templates and APIs) but also collaboration tools. The development tools improve speed-to-market by allowing developers to reduce repetitive coding tasks, replacing them with packaged templates. More importantly, the toolset includes integrated “teaming” tools that facilitate collaboration among developers. This includes the shared ability to review code and track results, even among non-technical stakeholders. The application lifecycle tools foster business agility and innovation, while improving quality of software and reducing errors. ▪ Application Resources – The cloud era has brought with it an acknowledgement that IT doesn’t have to be homegrown; that enterprises can benefit from shared facilities and services without losing a competitive edge. IBM’s Application Resources allow enterprises to reduce costs and simplify deployment of common application resources, such as database and backup services. ▪ Application Environments – Deploying self-contained applications is a common usage for cloud services. The Application Environments capability automates and facilitates the deployment of apps through a simple interface. The © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved. January 2012 9
  • 10. Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan user selects a pre-configured pattern for the type of app to be deployed (e.g., Web applications, database apps) and selects appropriate performance-related configurations (e.g., throughput). IBM’s PaaS creates and deploys the virtual machine, allocating appropriate resources (e.g., load balancing). Integrated monitoring agents track performance, automatically increasing resources as needed to maintain specified performance levels. For enterprises, this capability hastens time to deploy applications—as well as deployment of duplicate instances for testing or training—and ensures more consistent performance of the deployed apps. ▪ Application Management – For many enterprises, the lifeblood of their businesses is a powerful enterprise resource planning system such as SAP. Despite the potential benefits that could be derived, they often hesitate to move such critical systems into the cloud, fearing disruption of operations. For these businesses, IBM has launched Application Management services focused on specific third-party enterprise applications. Initially supporting SAP, the service offers application-specific patterns and configurations that enable users to deploy their critical SAP workloads in the cloud. The capability leverages IBM’s expertise in SAP deployments, while enabling enterprises to take full advantage of cloud efficiencies. ▪ Integration – To maximize productivity and efficiency, employees need to access common applications from within other applications, which requires broad deployment of application service interfaces. Unfortunately, such integration usually means time- and resource-intense custom coding. That’s where IBM SmartCloud Application Services can make a big difference. The Integration capability enables enterprises to integrate new and legacy applications without requiring coding. The capability includes standard “connectors” for off-the-shelf software, as well as “builder” templates that utilize a graphical interface to facilitate integration into custom applications. As a result, businesses can quickly and easily integrate a SugarCRM application into SAP, for example. The Integration capability not only facilitates development and deployment; it also enables businesses to improve productivity—allowing them to “connect the dots” between disparate business functions more easily, and providing the visibility and analysis tools they need to make smart business decisions. IBM SmartCloud Application Services offer enterprises the following unique benefits: • Cross-platform support – IBM’s PaaS supports the full range of corporate IT environments, providing visibility and management tools for corporate cloud applications, whether they are hosted in private, public, or hybrid clouds. Because IBM’s PaaS technologies and IaaS technologies are fully integrated, the service offers an unprecedented degree of visibility into IaaS-based virtual machines. 10 January 2012 © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved.
  • 11. Getting More Out of the Cloud with PaaS • Robust library – IBM SmartCloud users have access to a robust and continually updated library of templates and APIs to facilitate development. • SAP management – IBM SmartCloud Application Services enable enterprises to streamline management and maintenance of their current mission critical applications, with SAP as the first application being supported. This valuable capability enables enterprises to leverage the benefits of the cloud—including ease of management and avoidance of hardware maintenance—for commercial applications, without giving up control or customization that is a by-product of SaaS deployments. By placing SAP in the IBM cloud, enterprises experience reduced time and cost associated with SAP maintenance tasks, including cloning, testing, patching, and refreshing. Because the deployments are managed by IBM SAP experts, enterprises can minimize risk associated with migration. • Common Core Technology – IBM uses the same underlying technology for its private and public cloud solutions, including IBM SmartCloud Foundation for deploying on-premises private clouds, as well as IBM Enterprise and Enterprise infrastructure services, and the SmartCloud Application Services platform. The technologies include robust capabilities such as IBM Workload Deployer, Cast Iron, DB2 and Rational tools, which are fully integrated into the platform. This helps ensure seamless application portability across the full spectrum of cloud delivery models. WHY IBM? Leveraging its reputation as a technology leader serving the world’s largest enterprises, IBM is executing a cloud strategy that well positions the company as the leading cloud provider for enterprises. As enterprises increasingly seek to deploy cloud services, not just for trials but for their production environments, they can turn to IBM for solutions that address their concerns and meet their future needs. Among the advantages offered by IBM are: ▪ Leadership in enterprise cloud services – With over 20 years of experience managing mission-critical applications for enterprises, it’s not surprising that IBM launched the industry’s first set of enterprise-grade cloud services. Today, its cloud services portfolio is second to none. IBM continues to invest in its enterprise cloud vision, with tightly integrated services that span infrastructure, platform, and software layers, and support private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Furthermore, IBM’s expertise in managed and professional services allows the company to provide expert guidance to the large number of companies that are seeking assistance in developing a cloud strategy. Professional services © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved. January 2012 11
  • 12. Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan include cloud strategy and roadmap development, risk assessments, and cloud implementation services. ▪ Unmatched Service Level Agreements (SLAs) – At a time when most cloud providers are unsure whether and how to develop service level agreements, IBM continues to lead the way. As with other IBM cloud services, the company has adopted meaningful SLAs based on workload performance within its SmartCloud Application Services. ▪ Leader in security solutions – In our networked and collaborative world, with anytime-anywhere access to applications, security is no longer an afterthought, but a critical element to be built into every workload, application, and toolset. IBM’s Security Framework ensures that robust and flexible security components are built into each solution. ▪ Leader in developer community initiatives – IBM is building a broad ecosystem of partners who are building their solutions on the IBM SmartCloud platform and extending the IBM SmartCloud platform with additional capabilities and services. In addition, IBM’s developerWorks program offers tools and resources for commercial and in-house developers. 12 January 2012 © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved.
  • 13. Getting More Out of the Cloud with PaaS Stratecast The Last Word For forward-looking IT leaders, the cloud is not a technology to be pursued for its own sake; instead, the cloud represents a means to grow and differentiate the business. Unfortunately, most cloud infrastructure and software services on the market today make it difficult to achieve that lofty goal. In fact, they may have the opposite effect, merely adding yet another development or delivery environment to be managed by the already-overburdened IT staff. However, a new view of a flexible, integrated cloud is being introduced by IBM, one that enables enterprises to enter the cloud with confidence. Through its new PaaS offer, SmartCloud Application Services, IBM offers enterprises the capability to develop, deploy, manage and integrate corporate applications—regardless of operating system or environment. SmartCloud Application Services facilitate application development, with unique collaboration tools that enable even non-technical stakeholders to participate in quality reviews. To maximize performance of applications, the PaaS includes management and monitoring tools that offer high levels of visibility and control over multiple environments. Furthermore, because enterprises expend considerable time and employee resources in managing mission-critical legacy apps, SmartCloud Application Services includes prepackaged application environments for commercial business applications, beginning with SAP. SmartCloud Application Services helps enterprises get the most from the cloud, allowing them to realize the benefits of cost containment and rapid deployment of applications, while minimizing risk. Even more important to IT leaders, the IBM PaaS solution enables them to achieve business goals: to respond more quickly to the changing marketplace, to rapidly deploy innovative ways to connect with customers, and to foster collaboration among partners and employees. With SmartCloud Application Services, IBM has shown that a robust PaaS can provide more than a set of development tools. In the hands of a savvy IT leader, it can become the platform that optimizes IT in the cloud. Lynda Stadtmueller Program Manager - Cloud Computing Services Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan lstadtmueller@stratecast.com © 2012 Stratecast. All Rights Reserved. January 2012 13
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