CA Plex / CM WebClientImplementing on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure

Our Story– IBM i/z Integrator w/

International Scope• Offices in USA, Switzerland, Italy, France

– CA Partner for 13+ years • Reseller (Eurozone, North America)• Services / Education• Technology• Partner Delivered Support (PDS) - Europe

– IBM, Sencha, PTC Partner• Rational, WebSphere/Java, CA Plex/CA 2E

(Synon), IBM i, IBM z Back Ends, Mobile

– Focus on Technical Debt / Legacy Modernization

Why go to the cloud?

SQL Server Integration Services

My app. On the cloud. Nirvana…

Why go to the cloud? IDC report on AWS:• Five-year ROI: 626%• Payback period: 7.1 months• Software development productivity increase: 507%• Average savings per application: $518,990• Downtime reduction: 72%• IT productivity increase: 52%• Five-year TCO savings: 72%

Source: IDC, 2013

The marketplace is the proof

Financial Benefits• Reduction in capex

and opex• Increased IT staff

productivity• Users have less

downtime• New Business

Models

Increased Developer Efficiency• Simplification of

complex services– Less code

• Less defects• Speed

Benefits over time• Learning curve• Acceleration of

benefits with more apps

• Amazon fees are a small % of total

An Amazon Cloud Brief Tour

Basic Steps• Sign Up for AWS• Set up a computer• Configure• Save the image• Monitor

• More advanced– Load Balancers– Relational Database

Services– Virtual Private Cloud– Elastic Beanstalk,

OpsWorks, and many more

Amazon Overview (Plex Perspective) Deploy pre-defined load balanced instances of

CA Plex WebClient applications in Cloud environments

Other Cloud TargetsGoogle, Windows Azure, IBM, etc.

Java RPG IV

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RDSServices

EC2 / EBS /AMI Alphabet Soup!• A EC2 Machine is

– Based on an AMI (Machine Image)

– Running in an availability zone

– Using EBS storage– Under a security

group/key

Elastic Load Balancer• Distribute application

traffic across multiple instances

• Fault Tolerance• Autoscaling• Manage SSL load

Autoscaling• Adjust to seasonal

or daily load• Recover from failed

instances• Get notifications

Load Testing• Many Different

ServicesNeed performance, stress, scalability

and load testing LoadUIWeb – Free for single apps

DemoAmazon Cloud in Action

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