This presentation describes UShareSoft entreprise tools for simplifying software delivery with high quality software appliances. The UForge appliance factory enables individual developers, system administrators and IT professionals to create and maintain business ready software appliances for on-demand physical, virtual & cloud computing environments.  UShareSoft's UForge and Open Appliance Studio provides the best OS and image format agnostic platform to assemble self-deployable distributed vApps that allows applications to be delivered as ready-to-run software appliances.

1. Solutions Linux
Paris March 18th
Creating and Assembling Software Stacks for
Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Session S17 Virtualization & Cloud Computing
James Weir CTO UShareSoft
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2. UShareSoft About Us
• The Appliance Factory Company
• HQ in Europe, ramping up in US and Japan
• Delivering UForge, a SaaS platform that hugely
simplifies how software appliances are built, maintained
and deployed
• Pioneer in key on-going industry evolution “Go Vertical”
• Contributing to Open Source communities with FREE
access to UForge
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3. Software Delivery
#1 Technical Issue: Installation & Configuration
Legal
Technical Social
“The costs of human resources for producing, operating and maintaining
software will soon become prohibitive” Source Forrester
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4. Software Delivery
Software Appliances – Why Bother ?
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5. Software Delivery
Up to 50% of Support Calls Comes from Improper Software Installation
Source: Nat Friedman's Blog
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6. Lowering The Barriers
Kicking the Tyres Needs to be Quick & Easy
Make Installation & Configuration Easy
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7. Think Vertical
Software Appliances
Different Formats (Physical, VM, Cloud)
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8. Software Appliance Market Trends
• CAGR by 86% (2007 – 2012)
• Market $1.2B in 2012
• Linux Preferred OS for ISVs
• Non-Paid Linux counts for 65%
• IDC expects Microsoft to strategically enter the market
in late 2010
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9. Ecosystem S o ftw a re A pplia nc e
O S V e ndo rs M a rk et P la c e H o s ting P ro vide rs
IS V s C lo ud P ro vide rs
O pe n S o urc e P ro je c ts I nfra s truc ture T o o ling
C o ntent T o o ling S ys tem I nte g ra to rs
B uilders
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10. Software Appliance Life Cycle
Mainly Manual Process Many Industry Actors Investing R&D
Some OS Vendor Tools
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11. Assembling Software Stacks
ECM Collaboration LAMP CRM
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12. Keep Assembly Under Control
• Control Software Image Content
• Stack Integrity
• Control Appliance Life Cycle
• Control Software Licensing
• Enhance IT Agility and TTM
• Control Collaboration & Sharing of IP
• Control the Matrix of Complexity
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13. Building Software Appliances
Technical Challenges
• Just Enough Operating System (JeOS)
• OS Profiles
• 32 or 64 bit
• Stack Integrity
• Installation Parameters
(keyboard,network, admin password)
• Licensing
• Configuration
• Software Governance (versioning)
How to be Predictable & Consistent ?
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14. Generating Software Stacks
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15. Content Tools Landscape
U S ha reS o ft
O pe n A pplia nc e S tudio
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- rP a th L inux
N o ve ll S us e S tudio
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
V M w a re S tudio R edH a t B o x G rinder
U buntu vm builde r
C o hes ive FT
- E la s tic S e rver
U S ha reS o ft
C re a te d
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16. UForge Assembly Factory
Ramp to virtualization & Cloud
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17. Software Appliance Limitations
• Monolithic by nature – Not scalable or highly available
• Manual Configuration between multiple instances
• Multiple Software Appliances to maintain
All Software Instances
Running in the same Container
Multiple Instances as a Solution
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18. vApps
Distributed Software Appliances
S im ple. P redic ta ble. C o ns is ten
Automatically Deploying Distributed Solutions on
Physical, Virtual & Cloud Environments
vApps - IT solutions packaged into a single appliance
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19. Summary
S im plifying S oftw a re D elivery is E s s entia l
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20. Q&A
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21. Glad You
Asked
That!
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22. UShareSoft Booth B20
contact@usharesoft.com
www.usharesoft.com
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23. Solving Business Challenges
Reduce Costs Grow Reduce Risk
Save on Scale with Control Software
Integration Automation Policies &
Governance
Automate Your Differentiate with
Processes Unique Software Risk Free
Appliances Collaboration &
Reduce Field Sharing
Engagement Time Expand with
by x10 Business Ready License
Software Management
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24. Expand to New Markets
Ramp your Apps to the Cloud
Cloud Ready
Appliances
Virtual Appliances
Reduce Sales Offerings Cloud Package
Delays Enterprise Package Remote Deployments
Complete Stack License Management Scalable Appliances
Pre-integrated Distributed vApps Ready for SaaS
Pre-deployed Ready for Production
loud
Ready for POC Physical, Virtual, C
nyw here
ns Any OS to A
Ramp your applicatio
Multi-OS Multi-Format Multi-Cloud
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25. JeOS Profiling
Just enough OS!
Full Stack with Fedora
Distribution > 4000 packages
Today this is manual
and takes weeks
Under 450 packages
Keep only
what you need
JeOS
With UForge
size reduced by 90%
Reasons for JeOS in a few clicks!
>Smaller Footprint
>Better Performance
>More Secure
>Easier to Maintain
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26. Open Appliance Studio
Creating vApps
Install & Provision
Deliver as appliance
Create Image
Solution Logic
Package
Automate Configuration
XWiki
Multiple Instances of Same Images
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27. Open Appliance Studio
Deploy via the Browser
Connect to ONE Instance
to Launch the Deployment
Configure the Software Components
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28. Open Appliance Studio
Simple. Predictable. Consistent.
Automatically Deploying Distributed Solutions on
Physical, Virtual & Cloud Environments
Scalable. Secure. Highly Available
XWiki
Tomcat
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