Application Darwinism - Why Most Enterprise Apps Will Evolve to the Cloud
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1. Compelling Events for Automation
• Middleware Upgrades It’s great when new vendors
bring out new features - but often taking advantage of
them takes a good deal of time and effort to upgrade
the new infrastructure - and introduces risk. Automating
the upgrade project speeds it up, reduces the risk and
builds a more manageable platform in the future.
• Migrating off ‘Premium Product’ With the economy
as it is, more organizations are forced to tighten their
belts, and one area that has come under particular
scrutiny is the annual cost of maintaining installed
software. Some organizations have made the decision
to move less business critical applications off more
expensive middleware onto open-source platforms
such as JBoss and Tomcat. This type of project is
accelerated when it’s automated and an automation
tool makes managing hybrid or heterogeneous
environments much easier.
• Building a PAAS or a private cloud With pressure
on businesses to deliver more innovation to their
customers, faster, we see many of our customers
building Platforms As A Service and private clouds.
These are a lot faster and quicker to set up using an
automation tool, and a lot quicker to manage demand
once they are up and running.
• Core business application upgrades or migrations
Many of our customers occasionally need to upgrade
or even replace their core business applications - often
complex, multi-layered, integrated systems that have
evolved over time and have many integration points
and are absolutely critical to the minute by minute
operations of the business. Using an automation tool
can reduce the risk and time associated with such
a project.
• Platform migrations Sometimes it’s time to move
from one platform to another - for instance, customers
sometimes feel that a UNIX based platform will
offer them performance advantages over an OS400
platform. But moving hundreds of middleware
applications might seem like a challenge too far -
without automation.
• Rearchitecting Change is a constant and businesses
need to continually evolve their IT infrastructure
and operations, build new environments for things
like Disaster Recovery and automating the build
and deployment of these new environments means
delivering them faster.
.Net Insights
• Roughly half of IIS users are on Version 6 and
the other half on 7. There are still a fraction of
users on Version 5 which is now out of support,
and although there are no announced plans to
terminate support on Version 6, the launch of
Version 8 in October 2012 would suggest it’s only
a matter of time. The migration path from Version 6
to 7 has commonly proved to be painful, since the
server object configuration has changed requiring
manual intervention. Version 7 to 8 upgrades of IIS
are seen to be more straightforward, but for larger
installations still represent a significant workload
and a good deal of potential risk.
• There are some great new features in Version 8
of IIS that users will want to take advantage of,
such as: real CPU throttling, SSL scalability, server
name indication, SSL manageability, dynamic
IP restrictions, FTP logon restriction and a new
application initialization module.
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