ibm smartcloudenterprise use of ibm rational solutions

June 5–9 Orlando, Florida

IBM Innovate 2011 IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Relies on IBM Rational Solutions

Scott PeddleAdvisory Software Developer, [email protected]

Alexander AmiesSenior Software Engineer, [email protected]

Harm SluimanDistinguished Engineer, [email protected]

http://ibm.com/cloud/enterprise

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Agenda

Public cloud business scenarios

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise background

Cloud project tools and deliverables

Rational Asset Manager deep dive

Demo

Resources

Questions and answers



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Demo

Resources




Business Scenarios

There are many business scenarios for use of cloud resources. Examples,

Developing and testing using resources that are inconvenient or expensive to procure permanently

Web site hostingMuch cheaper and more convenient than with putting physical servers in a hosting center

minimization of network latency with worldwide delivery points

Short term workloads with high peaks

Proof of concepts and pilots

Support software as a service (SaaS) offerings

Cloud is enabling a different mode of work and a different set of deliverables that can be used more directly and efficiently by customers and help them over the entire life cycle of the systems developed



The reinvention of standards for cloud

• IBM has been involved in standards since their inception in IT industry

• IBM spends millions each year on open standards.

• IBM has made substantial donations to the open source & standards ecosystem

• Thousands of IBMers are involved in standards & regulatory activities

• IBM is currently engaged in over 400+ specifications & standards organizations.

HTTP, HTML, WSFL,

XLANG, REST…

Dawn of the

world wide webJava, Java EE,

XML, XML Schema,

SOAP, WSDL, UML,

Web2.0, ...

WS*, WS-I, SCA,

BPEL, SAML,

XACML …

BPMN, SBVR,

RIF, …Rise of the

application server

Service

orientation

Business agility

Cloud Standards Customer Council

Join today: http://www.cloudcustomercouncil.org

Cloud Computing

Cloud architecture at The Open Group (TOG)

DMTF Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

DMTF Cloud Management WG (IAAS APIs)

OASIS Cloud Identity Management TC

On April 7, 2011 industry leaders form Cloud

Standards Customer Council hosted by the

Object Management Group (OMG) to deliver on the

promise of open cloud computing!

Over 45 companies signed up prior to the April launch – the largest in OMG history!

IBM’s sustained leadership in fostering open standards



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Demo

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What is IBM SmartCloud Enterprise?

IBM delivery centers

Your servers and

PCs

Internet

Your firewall

IBM unique security and

authentication model

IBM firewall

Enterprise-class IT infrastructure

Offering control, reliability, data security and massive scalability in performance and capacity

IBM owned and managed

Multi-tenant shared infrastructure

Highly virtualized

Multiple IBM delivery centers

Preconfigured software images

Enhanced security

Secured access through the Internet

Virtual private network option

Based on IBM security standards

Pay-per-use

Virtualized IT development and test resources delivered on a usage-based billing model



IBM SmartCloud Enterprise on the IBM Cloud at a glance

The production site is at

http://www.ibm.com/cloud/enterprise

More information on the offering landing page

http://www.ibm.com/cloud/solutions/development

Features and functions:

Choice of ten virtual (Intel) server configurations

Choice of pre-configured software images from which to build private image

libraries

Linux® operating systems; Red Hat and Novell SUSE

Windows

IBM Lotus®, WebSphere®, DB2® and Informix® stacks

IBM Rational® Application Lifecycle Management

Tivoli® Monitoring software

Option to add blocks of persistent storage

Virtual Private Network (VPN/VLAN) services

Premium support options; 24*7 by phone with optional add-on Linux OS

support

Choice of six sites worldwide

The large number of high quality images is one of the key

differentiators of SmartCloud Enterprise

• requires a large scale of image development driven

by the Image Center of Excellence that relies greatly

on Rational tools.

http://www.ibm.com/cloud/enterprise


http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/igs/cloud-development/demo2_popup.html



You can have your development and test environment running in minutes on the IBM Cloud.

The easy-to-use self service portal guides you through automated provisioning

1 Choose a service 2 Choose a configuration 3 Image is provisioned



Tool Integration with the Cloud using Application Programming Interfaces

Tools can integrate with the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise using the public APIs

Flavors

Command line – suitable for power users or scripting environments

Build scripts, Rational BuildForge, Rational Functional Tester

REST – applications in any language

Apache libCloud

Java – specifically for Java language applications

Custom deployment tools, Rational Application Developer

Same capabilities as a cloud end user

instances of virtual machines

images of virtual machines

storage volumes

network addresses and virtual local area networks

cryptographic keys



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Demo

Resources




Pilot demo scenario – efficiencies gained from new delivery tools and practices with cloud

Traditional Cloud

Consultant travels to customer site Consultant works over the Internet – save

thousands of dollars in travel expenses

Customer gives access to enterprise network – an

inconvenient and time consuming process

Customer gives consultant access to cloud with

account or specific virtual machines with

cryptographic keys – cut time from days to

minutes

Procure hardware for pilot –expensive and

inconvenient to manage

Create instances with t he self-service interface –

cut time from weeks to minutes

Consultant does it all herself or himself – pulling

someone in for very short periods has too much

overhead

Consultant pulls in experts for high availability,

performance, security, etc for a few hours as

needed

Consultant cannot connect his laptop to the

customer’s network. He uses the minimal tools

that the customer makes available.

Customer can use her or his favorite Rational tools

on own laptop or available on the cloud, saving

potentially thousands of dollars in license costs for

the customer in the process

Consultant installs everything from scratch Consultant starts up instances from pre-built

images – saves thousands of dollars in consulting

charges

Server is re-purposed after completion Server instances are saves as images and running

instances are deleted, saving completed work and

saving money



Comparison of Project Deliverables

Traditional Cloud

Software installation program

• time consuming to develop

Virtual machine image (click a button to capture an

instance)

• Saves time and money

• Lower level of skill needed

Written reports summarizing installation and

deployment steps

• expensive to maintain over time

• Deployment topology models (Rational Software

Architect)

• Automated and repeatable/reusable (BuildForge)

Testing and quality assurance

• Scaling up and down test team and systems

is slow and expensive

• Test lab automation

• Ensures testing accuracy, minimizes

individual testing configurations

• Test artifacts for change management, and

resource and project planning (RTC, RQM or RAM)

Configuration files in miscellaneous locations • Full lifecycle management capabilities (RAM)

• Version source files for future use or reusability

(RTC)

System disasters, crashes or failures

• Extremely time consuming, labor intensive

and costly

• Image reprovisioning a fraction of the cost, not to

mention precious development time regained



Cloud Synergy with Rational Tools

Rational tools can help manage the life cycles of cloud assets

Images, software, and documentation assets

Document image content and prerequisites with topologies using Rational Software Architect

Organize and manage life cycle these assets in a catalog with Rational Asset Manager

In transition from physical infrastructure to cloud, analysis and modeling with Rational tools can help implement informed planning

Many business scenarios lend themselves to automation, which is a best practice for realizing cost reduction with cloud. Rational tools can help to automate deployment



Work Efficiency on the Cloud with Rational Tools

Asset management with Rational Asset ManagerExample: approval process around the lifecycle of virtual machine image and other assets

produced by Image Center of Excellence and third party providers

Provisioning with Rational Application Developer, Rational Quality Manager, and Testing as a ServiceRapid setup and tear down of complex environments for test scenarios

Deployment topology modeling with Rational Software Architect Introduction of deployment modeling early into the development life cycle

Automation with Rational Build Forge and Rational Team Concert Improve reproducability of system deployment

Rational tools themselves are available to users as cloud assetsNo need to install them on your personal desktop

The IBM SmartCloud Enterprise development and test team uses Rational tools for development of the systemFor all stages of the cloud development



Provisioning with RAD, RQM, and TaaS

The cloud APIs allow images, storage, and other resources to be provisioned and

managed for development and testing

Virtual machine instances can be added via UI or script

Cloud allows set up of complex test environments to be scripted

Compare this with the process to procure and set up physical environments

This is very convenient for developers and testers who can do all their work from

one primary workstation without having to permanently own and manage other

servers required for their work

Save time in setting up and maintaining test tool environments

The tools themselves are also assets that are available on the cloud

Images of tools can be saved like other images after a project finishes to assist the people

who support the systems



Use of RAD in a Cloud Environment

RAD discovers and provisions virtual machine images in the cloud using the

RAM catalog



Modeling Cloud Topology with RSA

All assets on the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise include topology models

This can help understand different deployment models

Make sure deployment prerequisites can be met

Topology files can be downloaded from the RAM catalog and imported into RSA

Encourages the use of topology models as project deliverables



Dynamic Provisioning of Software Bundles

Software bundles are needed in IaaS Clouds to prevent image proliferation

Some software, such as native tools, utilities, agents, and so on can be widely used across many different images. For example, editors.

Some software may or may not be bundled with other software. For example, RAM may be bundled with WebSphere and DB2. LDAP servers are bundled with a number of security products.

This leads to many combinations, which would be too many images to support

The solution is to support dynamic provisioning of software bundles

Topology models are used to model the software prerequisites and to assist in automated provisioning



Cloud Security and Rational AppScan

Cloud opens up some different security challenges

Web management layers need to be secure to

SQL injection

cross site scripting

cross site request forgery (multi-tab browsing)

network vulnerabilities (open ports)

Cryptographic weaknesses (use of old crypto algoritms)

Rational AppScan is a must to identify and guide resolution of any problems identified

Same problems exist for any applications but those on the Internet are at more risk



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Demo

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Rational Asset Manager

Rational® Asset Manager is a collaborative software development tool that

organizations can use to identify, manage, and govern the design, development,

and consumption of software assets and services.

A definitive software library

A lifecycle management solution



Rational Asset ManagerDefinitive Software Library

Template Topology

The parameters, activation

scripts, and instructions to

provision a VM.

Composable Software Bundle

A bundle of software, installation and configuration operations, parameters, topology metadata and documentation




Rational Asset ManagerImage Development

CaptureProvision

Customize

Configure •Provision

Create VM from catalog

•Configure

Install tools, software, configuration

•Capture

Create image from VM

•Customize

Extract variability into asset



Rational Asset ManagerImage Development Collaboration

VM 2

Share

Image Developer

Private Image Community

Image consumable by

owner only

Enterprise Community

Image consumable by others

Collaboration by forums,

ratings, comments.

VM 3

VM 4

Image Collaborators

VM 1

VM 1

VM 1



Rational Asset ManagerImage Development Redux

Capture

Provision Customize

Configure

Image Developer

Image Testers

Share

Test

Feedback

Rational Software Architect


Rational Team Concert



www.ibm.com/software/rational



Summary

Cloud is enabling

a different mode of work

a different set of deliverables that can be used more directly

more efficient use of resources

savings over each step of the software development lifecycle

freedom from procuring and managing physical systems

a new way of collaborating



Resources

Production web site:


More information:


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http://www.ibm.com/services/us/igs/cloud-development/buydevandtest.html








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