“Leaving aside the proliferating startups in ServiceMesh’s sector, Cisco, Dell, VMware and the Big Four enterprise systems management vendors can’t lose the battle for cloud management without losing the war – and their lives.” This is what 451 analyst Rachel Chalmers wrote when describing the competition to ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform 9.0, and just one reason of many I’m so excited to publicly unveil ServiceMesh Agility Platform 9.0. Since we believe neither startups in the cloud management space, nor the big vendors mentioned here have the capabilities we do to accelerate the software release process through hybrid cloud (nor will they any time in the near future), we feel this quote is especially insightful. We’ve been working hard to add a variety of new features and functionality to Agility Platform and I’ve never seen our development team so excited about getting a new product into your hands. More than working on features, though, we have been building a platform for business innovation/business success. Talking to customers and prospects who are leaders in their industries, we have heard time and time again about the need to drive business agility in order to compete more aggressively in the market. Large enterprises are talking about competition from more nimble market entrants who are unencumbered by industry regulation or legacy systems and processes and as a result are able to take the fast lane to first-mover status. Knowing that Global 2000 enterprises need a platform to drive business innovation that helps them move at the speed of the market was the motivation behind Agility Platform 9.0. Want to learn more? http://www.servicemesh.com/resources/transform-it-blog/blog/servicemesh-agility-platform-9-0-driving-business-agility-through-effective-cloud-management/

1. Agility Platform 9.0
New Product Capabilities Overview

2. ServiceMesh Agility Platform™ 9.0
A single, consolidated platform to enable on-demand, self-service IT
operating models for Global 2000 enterprises
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3. Top 5 New Features in v9.0
 Graphical Blueprint Designer
1 Model complex, cloud-portable applications and optimize deployment
decisions including detailed “what if” scenarios
 Configuration management for cloud apps and platforms
2 Leverage application context and sophisticated policies for remediation
 Redesigned Store that is now mobile-device friendly
3 Improved ease of use, greater cost visibility, and increased versatility
 Policy-driven Storage Tiering
4 Adhere to storage/performance SLAs while optimizing resources and costs
 Expanded cloud support including new SDK
5 Support for 16 clouds plus rapidly build integrations to other resource mgrs

4. 1 Agility Platform’s New Blueprint Designer
 Accelerate standardization
of platforms and apps
across the enterprise
 Graphically design cloud
portable, multi-tier
applications.
 Perform “what if”
scenarios to aide
deployment
decisions, such as best fit
based on cost and
capacity
4
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5. Optimize deployment decisions automatically via
policies, or manually via “what if” analysis
1. Blueprints provide an application abstraction Blueprint
that can be deployed to any cloud. Firewall
Load Balancer
Web
Servers
2. Policies govern and App
Servers
optimize deployments Database
based on cost, capacity, and Servers
other app requirements.
3. Users can override default
policy decisions for further “what
if” analysis if permissions allow.
4. Applications are automatically deployed
and orchestrated for the selected cloud
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6. Application-centric, policy based
2 Configuration Management
Notifications, alerts, and
approval workflows
 Extend Agility Platform’s
Integration with other
3rd party systems extensible policies, event
Integration
with CMDBs
correlation
capabilities, and
Automatically enforce
CMDB desired configurations application context into
automated configuration
management.
Master Server
Automatically
Orchestrate and
configure at monitor and  Continuously monitor for
detect drift
deployment compliance of
apps, platforms, and entire
SOEs… not just
infrastructure.
Puppet
Agent
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7. Example: Remediation of cloud application changes
Remediation Process
INCIDENT 1. Application deployed by Agility Platform
MANAGEMENT CHANGE
CMDB SYSTEM MANAGEMENT 2. Configuration change detected
SYSTEM
3. Validate non-compliance with CMDB
3 4a 4. Execute policies to enforce remediation
4b
action(s):
4c PUPPET a) Register incident and specify incident
MASTER priority <and/or>
SERVER
b) Register change request and specify
risk level <and/or>
1 c) Automatically enforce compliance with
2
rollback to approved configuration
Business Application • Deployment location of app
APPLICATION • Lifecycle stage (Dev, QA, Prod, etc)
CONTEXT FOR • Business Unit using app
POLICY-BASED • Security zone for app
REMEDIATION:
• Business criticality of app, along
with other meta-model extensions
Source: Biki Analysis
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8. Leveraging Blueprints and Configuration
Management in DevOps
Blueprint
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9. 3 Agility Platform’s Redesigned Store
 Extend self-service IT
to broader audiences
» Completely redesigned UI
for greater ease-of-use
» Provide cost visibility
directly to end users
 Support increased
workplace mobility
» Browse, order, and
consume IT resources
from your mobile device
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10. 4 Policy-driven Storage Tiering
Applications
Dev Platforms
 Leverage policies to
automatically select the
optimal storage tier at
deployment
 Meet storage and
performance SLAs while
optimizing resources and
costs
 Enforce storage tiers by
group, project, SDLC
stage, or extend the
Platinum Bronze meta-model for your own
• Uptime: 99.99% • Uptime: 99.9% • Uptime: 99%
• RAID 0/1/5 • RAID 0 • No RAID parameters
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11. 5 Expanded cloud support including new SDK
Now Supported:
New SDK
Supported • Partners and customers can
+ Clouds rapidly develop new integrations
• Integrate resource managers and
bare metal provisioning tools
• Accelerate transition to “hybrid IT”
environments that include
traditional data centers.
Others…
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12. Interested in Learning More?
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