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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Alex Henthorn-Iwane

Vice-President, Marketing

Agile Infrastructure Automation

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QualiSystems Proprietary & Confidential

Global Software Company

Established 2004, privately held

North America HQ: Santa Clara, CA

R&D Center: Tel Aviv, Israel

Market-leading supplier of automation solutions for:

• IT infrastructure self-service for DevOPS agility and cloud evolution

• Network test and test lab efficiency, productivity and savings

Mature, proven technology:

• Hundreds of customer deployments

• Millions of infrastructure elements managed

• $Billions in infrastructure managed

Quali Company Overview

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The Goal:

• Cloud-like self-service

• Continuous everything

• SDN/SDDC

• Hybrid elasticity

• Agile /Lean IT / DevOps

Oh Infrastructure, How Agile Art Thou?

The Reality?

451 Research reports that 61% of companies were still at

the virtualization-only stage in the path to cloud readiness

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Agile Infrastructure Implies Automation

Self-Service/Automation

APP APP APP APP

Application Delivery Stakeholders

Primary Value

Stream

Secondary Value

Stream

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Challenge: Self-Service Model

How to evolve self-service?

• Prevent VM creep/resource gridlock

• Make self-service a round-trip

• Reservation-based

• Both auto-provisioning and auto-reclamation

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Existing IT infrastructure a major obstacle• Massive investments in legacy infrastructure

• Silo’d & homegrown applications

• Industry-specific infrastructure-beyond the traditional datacenter “stack”

Automation Challenge: Legacy’s Long Tail

NTT Europe 2013 Survey of 300 CIOs on

barriers to cloud adoption

58% of CIOssaid the complexity of

their existing IT

environment was their

main barrier to adopting

the cloud

How to create self-service from this mess?

• Old apps & infrastructure are like the proverbial “old soldier”

• Mainframe + dedicated server + private VM + public cloud VM?

• Agility mandate is in no less intense in these environments

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Challenge: Automation is Fixed or Fragmented

Automation

“80% of automation today is scripts

(you just might not know it)”

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Infrastructure teams have few programmers, majority are non-

programmers

Programmer bottleneck

Knowledge not systematized

• Lives in programmer’s brains

• Tribal knowledge phenomenon

Non-programmer productivity:

• Limited, dependent

• Expertise trapped in silos

Automation can’t scale its penetration of business processes

Challenge: Code-Centric Automation

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Most orchestration & automation built for

compute virtualization/cloud

Complex IT infrastructure are topologies

Networking gear = metal = not built for

multi-tenancy

Even with overlay network virtualization,

you still have to deal with the fabric

SDN will make things more complex

Challenge: Not Ready for Networking

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Inventory objects:

• Actual inventory including physical, virtual, cloud, apps, tools, subnets, etc.

• Hierarchical structure for granular multi-tenancy

o EG: Chassis—blade—port for bare metal switches

o Attributes: abstraction+ provisioning object parameters

• Enables reservation/multi-tenancy

Provisioning objects

• Resource level interfaces

Process task objects

• Test automation (functional, sanity, regression)

• Continuous Integration

Build & Maintain an Object Layer

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Pre-packaged libraries (of course)

Independent interface creation:

• Integrate and “objectize” API’s

• Utilize existing scripts (TCL, python, etc.)— no

“starting from zero”

• Capture and objectize CLI, SNMP, terminal

interactions

Make them small and maintainable

Overcomes interfacing obstacles

Removes roadmap dependencies

Helps integrate legacy infrastructure

OOTB & DIY Integration Tools

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• Visual environment creation

o Inventory-based modeling

o Simple to any arbitrary network topology

o Abstract design to maximize utilization

o Packaged with provisioning & reclamation

flows

• Visual workflow authoring

o Hide syntax from users

o Dramatically scale “service creation”

o Continuous integration, test automation

Integrate Orchestration & Workflow

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Infrastructure Self-Service to

People & Processes

TO

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Agile Infrastructure Maturity Model

Local

&

Manual

Level 1

Ad Hoc

Level 2

Shared

Round-trip

Self-Service

True Hybrid

Cloud

Level 3

Operational

Automation of

Complex Infrastrutcure

Continuous Integration

against elastic

infrastructure

Level 4

Enterprise

Resource

Consolidation

Continuous Delivery

of End-to-End

Environments

Level 5

Strategic

Object-Layer

Collaboration

Continuous

Deployment

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Orchestrate & Automate

• Legacy, traditional, dedicated

• Private and public cloud

• Software-Defined Networking

• Reserve, provision & reclaim

Full object & workflow automation toolset

Patented, object-oriented automation technology

What’s QualiSystems Solution?

Agile Infrastructure Automation

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Risk-Mitigated Application Evolution

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• Bare metal provisioning of complex data center environmentso Experienced architects create complex

provisioning workflows

o Less experienced engineers can execute provisioning processes successfully

• Provisioning of converged infrastructure product stackso From bare metal to “ready to consume”

o Accelerates time to value

• Orchestrator for ongoing data center automationo Sustainable, object-oriented architecture

o Can work with variety of automation languages

Data Center Provisioning &

Orchestration

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• SDNs offer northbound

API’s for applications to

drive network behavior

• Yet SDN adopters will need

to manage heterogeneous

network environments with

both legacy and SDN

elements

SDN Network DevOps

• CloudShell provides the means to automate the delivery of

SDN/legacy network environments for agile network application

development, testing and deployment

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