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“This platform elevates fluidOps from an application-aware infrastructure
manager (although it's certainly that) to a true cloud-enablement player”
“Another DevOps target is fluidOps, which is taking its IaaS enablement play beyond
SAP applications and users to provide agile, automated applications and cloud
infrastructure for more users”
“The Company is exploiting a niche in the marketplace where there is
currently no other direct competition”
Strategic Importance of Semantic Technologies as a Key Differentiator for
IT as a Service
Cloud Definition
Private Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Desktop as a Service
Cloud describes the concept of dynamically
adapting to needs
IT is blurred and not transparent from a user
perspective – Like a “Cloud”
Cloud describes the concept to IT
infrastructure abstraction
Storage as a Service
Landscape as a Service
Data as a Service
Request as a Service
Software as a Service
Cloud – A New Era for the Business
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Goal: IT as a Service Low cost High performance High flexibility
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Intra Company Service Portal Billing Monitoring
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Private & Public Service
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eCloudManager Positioning
IT Management Today
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Enterprise Clouds Vision => eClouds
All resources of an adaptive, cloud-enabled IT environment can be set up, monitored, and maintained from a single, unified, and intuitive management console:
Internal and external IT resources accessible across stack without vendor lock-in
High degree of automation and IT provisioning at click of button on the level of enterprise landscapes
Internal portal of private/public IT services with e.g. pay-as-you-go cost models
eCloudManagerTM Product Suite
Semantic Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
Behind the Scenes ...
Semantic Technologies
Data from different providers (adapters) Different semantics (LUN, Datastore, Volume, Filesystem, Disk) Different primary keys (serial Number, WWN, moref) Incomplete Information (several providers needed to fill the object) Timing (order of data collection runs)
Solution S.P.O. Tuples (incl. User, Time, Origin)
Examples TestQA is of type Virtual Machine
TestQA has CPU Usage 65% TestQA is managed by Peter
Peter is of type Person
Peter has responsibility Storage Admin
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Informationsdatenbank auf Basis von SPOs
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fluidOps Solution An example how to combine out of the box
Infrastructure-, Application- & IT-Service Management - Awareness
eCloudManager Platform
For Infrastructure Administrators
For Infrastructure and Application Administrators
Self Service access to IT as a Service
For Business and all IT roles and overlays
SOA Integration to other tools
Storage Application Hypervisor Compute Hardware
Network Public Cloud Resources
Business Resources
Provider Provider Provider Provider Provider Provider Provider
In-Memory DB
Rule Engine
Workflows
...
Unified API
eCloudManager Platform – Interconnects Protocols and APIs for the eCloudManager Providers (list not complete)
vCloud Director
HTTPS
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HTTPS HTTPS HTTPS
HTTPS
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HTTPS, CLI, DHSM HTTPS HTTPS, SMI-S HTTPS, SMI-S,
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Rest, XML API Rest, HTTP, ZAPI
Rest PowerShell, WMI, CLI
Rest, EC2Client
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SOAP, SDK
Rest SMI-S, Rest, SSH, XML, CLI, DHSM
SMI-S Rest RMI, CLI, SMI-S Rest, SSH, XML, CLI, DHSM
SOAP, WMI, REST, CLI
RMI, RFC, Jco, JMX, DBMCLI
CLI
SOAP
SAP ACC* SAP LVM
EMC RUN EMC ADM/2*
Blade as a Service*
Cisco UCS HP C7000
NetApp FAS
Cluster
Microsoft Hyper-V*
Public Clouds* Microsoft Azure
Amazon EC2 EMC Atmos
VMware vSphere
Storage Systems*
HDS IBM HP
SMI-
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EMC VPLEX
EMC VNX / VNXe
EMC VSPEX
EMC CLARiiON
EMC Symmetrix
VMAX/VMAXe
EMC Atmos
EMC Celerra
Exchange, Oracle,
legacy Apps*
SAP (SAP NW ABAP +
Java, Sybase Mobile, etc.)
* Beta All Vblock Types of VCE Coalition
HTTPS
Rest
OpenStack*
HTTPS
SSH
LibVirt* KVM* Xen
Unified Management of the Entire IT Stack True IT as a Service
Manage Enterprise Application Landscapes As A Single Entity
Virtual Landscape Concept A Virtual Landscape (VL) is an isolated, logical grouping of several VMs containing
connected applications which communicate with each other
The Virtual Landscape Manager (VLM) is an appliance that comes as part of the eCloudManager Enterprise Edition, and represents the central component of a Virtual Landscape and manages the network and application layer
eCloudManager Virtual Landscape Management Benefits: Zero configuration VLM with intelligent
DHCP and DNS without the need for MAC address-based DHCP reservations
Existing network setups can be cloned and encapsulated
Virtualized file and printer shares
Cross-landscape connects
SAP ACC integration
Flexible access to VL: RDP, VNC, VPN, Reverse Proxy, SAP Router, etc.
Charge back possibilities (selection) Fully customizable cost formula with huge set of parameters from Infrastructure or Application:
CPU and memory reservation and consumption
Storage utilization and allocation (thin / thick)
Guarantee of SLAs (availability, performance, …)
Storage type
• NAS, SAN
• RDM (Raw Device Mapped LUNs), VMFS, NFS
• RAID Level
• SATA, FC, EFD
• iSCSI (1GB, 10GB), FC
actual usage vs. allocated space
amount of data written, read or deleted
bandwidth usage
other datacenter-relevant items, like compute resource usage, application performance,
Location (Public cloud, private cloud, partner cloud)
Uptime of VM, suspend time of VM, uptime of application
Average response time of application
Logon time of users to the application
Additional services (installation, consulting, data import, backup, data shares)
Usage tracking on each level and entity (storage, traffic, compute, contract agreements, SLAs, …)
Cost calculation can be configured on each level (distributors, resellers and customers) and for every individual
Costs can be aggregated for groups or individuals
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Hybrid Cloud Management
eCloudManager: Assess:
Ideal for Outsourcing / Data Center Due Diligence
Integrate: Link IT to business data
Analyze: On demand dashboards
Control: Make cost of IT transparent
Optimize: Brokerage between private and public resources
Upsell: On premise interface to public cloud services
fluidOps Solutions Semantic Master Data Management as base for a
transparant data center
Semantic Master Data Management
In many enterprises, data is scattered across different silos.
Our Semantic Master Data Management Platform brings together:
various data formats
various mechanisms for accessing different data types which requires a large set of APIs
data from various domains
data sources which are partly overlapping, partly complementary
redundant data items
different IDs for the same resource which are used across different data formats
Semantic Master Data Management
Phase 1 – Integration: Data integration in a central
repository via data providers
Lift existing data sources to RDF
RDF data integration into a central repository
Data alignment using a global ontology
Phase 2 – Logical Mapping: Bring together entities from
different sources
Generate a logical view and map data items
Identify and align equal data across different data sources
A logical mapping layer derives IDs spanning different data sources
Benefits of the Semantic Master Data Management in the Data Center Domain
Seamless integration creates transparency
Improve data quality
Reuse data
Discover redundancies and inconsistencies
Ad hoc analysis
Reduce time and effort for search, query and report generation
Use Cases
Game Changers*
What if you could provision a complete, integrated enterprise application landscape in 10 minutes?
What if that landscape were easily consumed in a self-service portal by your private or public cloud customers? Compare … 4-6 weeks average to provision enterprise systems at SAP customer sites
1 week to resurrect a (successful) test landscape
Gartner: 66% of IT spend on configuring & running system landscapes, not in supporting business innovation or transforming the company
* Gartner asked: “Who is the next game changer?” and fluid Operations made the list for ‘SAP Ecosystem in 2010’
Customer Case Study
Challenge: Needed a solution which would enable them to address the challenges
of managing various resource silos in their data centers
Replicating customer environments consisting of multi‐tiered multisystem SAP enterprise application landscapes in a rapid and automated manner
Why fluidOps: eCloudManager drives stack virtualization and delivers a one‐console
solution for private and public cloud management and monitoring, enabling simplified administration and increased IT efficiency
Out-of-the-box Landscape as a Service solution integrates with enterprise storage, hypervisors and enterprise application resources, and provides a unified view over data centers
Results: fluidOps platform allowed the SAP CoE to deal with today’s cloud
infrastructure challenges by integrating all silos in the SAP data center
eCloudManager has been in productive use at the SAP CoE in Germany and the USA since 2008
Managing thousands of compute cores and Petabytes of enterprise storage from a single platform
“The eCloudManager full stack
monitoring and management feature
allowed us to detect infrastructure
failures affecting the applications, or
errors at the application level, before they
were discovered by the customer and
before they could cause application or
service downtime”
- Ralf Lindenlaub
Senior Director, Infrastructure &
Technology
SAP CoE / Value Prototyping
SAP Center of Excellence / Value Prototyping – eCloudManager Customer
Information Workbench at SAP Center of Excellence/Value Prototyping Support collaborative
operations management in the data center
Link business data to technical data
Technical Documentation
Analytics and Reporting
Performance and Capacity Monitoring
Responsibility Management
Resource Management
Change Management
Technical Ticketing System
eCloudManager for SAP Applications
What Provides full control over the life cycle of your (SAP) enterprise application landscapes through
a single, unified, easy-to-use management console, delivering Landscape as a Service (LaaS)
Application (VM) Templates for immediate application content or custom versioning
Monitoring of all (SAP) enterprise application relevant systems based on data sources
Rapid provisioning, management and monitoring of multi-tiered multi-system enterprise application landscapes
Typical example: SAP ECC + BI + Portal + Citrix access gateway
Includes connections between systems as well as user management; no post-provisioning configuration needed
Landscape as a Service (SAP) enterprise application landscapes exposed to
business clients as Landscape as a Service
eCloudManager Dashboard View
Per client virtual application landscape (VL) Per client network access and traffic separation, firewall/router appliance
Automated personalization of systems
SAP and non-SAP Monitoring Advanced monitoring and analysis including everything managed within the SAP systems, e.g. CCMS
All SAP and non-SAP instances across landscapes automatically detected and monitored, no configuration necessary
Event and notification system (E-mail, SMS, RSS), customizable through standard rule language
Storage-assisted freeze, backup and recovery of (SAP) enterprise application systems within seconds
Full IT stack integration from storage to hypervisor to application to end-user
Policies and Policy Editor
eCloudManager for SAP Applications
Customer Case Study
Challenge:
Platform which would enable MvB to provision and host their customers’ application landscapes in hybrid cloud environments on-demand, while maintaining control over costs and consumed resources
Data center resource integration and monitoring, and error handling
Why fluidOps:
Hybrid cloud management and distribution of resources across private and public clouds based on SLAs
Self-service provisioning of enterprise application landscapes
End-to-end data center monitoring, from storage to hypervisor to application, including advanced SAP database monitoring
Customizable rules and policies for data center-wide monitoring
Customizable cost calculation formula for a highly flexible pay-per-use billing model
Results:
Provisioning of enterprise landscapes within minutes and without any post-provisioning effort in MvB’s private Xen cloud, with the option to integrate public cloud resources on demand
Maintain control over the complete lifecycle of enterprise applications
Automated root cause analysis process and faster reaction to errors
Detailed metering and billing reports for each user, cost transparency
“eCloudManager has enabled us
to easily provision productive
environments for our customers,
while still keeping costs under
control. This has allowed us to
offer cost- and innovation-
oriented services.” - Martin vom Bruch
Managing Director MvB Consulting GmbH
MvB Consulting, Member of Vision Consulting Group
Information Workbench at The BBC
Support the Dynamic Semantic Publishing Strategy for the 2012 Olympics site and the BBC Sports site
The Information Workbench supports the editorial process – from authoring and curation to publishing of ontology and instance data following an editorial workflow.
The Information Workbench supports the following specific authoring and publishing steps: • Automated generation of content from both
structured and unstructured data and metadata.
• Content enrichment using metadata. • User-friendly forms and auto-suggestion list
for easy editing of semantic metadata. • Support for multi-level internal approval
processes. • Semantic metadata processing for
automated publication.
eCM / IWB Platform & Solutions
Infrastructure Layer
Virtualization & Linking Layer
Data Layer
Server Superdome Egenera
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eCloudManager in a Nutshell
Enterprise Storage Network Virtual Compute Physical Compute Enterprise Application Landscapes
Big Data
Semantic Integration
Unified API
Access to heterogeneous
Resources
Unified monitoring of resources
Extendable provider
architecture
Automation
Automated, on-demand Provisioning
Policy engine for
error tracking
Availability Monitoring
Orchestration
workflows
Service Definition
Template Library
Zone definition
SLA definition
Resource reservation and management
Analytics
Historical data Management
Search and Exploration
Collaborative
Documentation
Dashboards and reporting
Security
User management
Role concept
Utilization monitoring
Error and failure detection and
Handling
Audit Log and Jobs
Self-Service Portal
Multi-user Architecture
One-click provisioning
Utilization and
service availability Monitoring
Metering and billing
Next Generation Data Management
Integration & Collaboration
BI & Analytics
Metadata
management
Interactive visual exploration & search
Semantic Wiki-based
Authoring
Federated access
THANK YOU! Francesco Incorvaia [email protected] Direct: +49 163 384 0909 Office: +49 6227 384 6527 http://www.linkedin.com/in/francescoincorvaia
http://www.xing.com/profile/Francesco_Incorvaia http:// www.fluidOps.com fluid Operations AG Altrottstr. 31 Walldorf, Germany
eCloudManager in a Nutshell
Run an agile cloud to provide local or external users with a flexible and highly-automated application and IT infrastructure to run their workloads
internet-like ease and abstraction of IT complexity
hybrid: local and external resources
eCloudManager An enterprise cloud management solution that spans infrastructure, application and business
stacks, and can be used to build and run mission-critical application heavy private clouds, with …
… a modular, flexible, scalable and open architecture
… seamless integration to existing storage, networking and virtualization providers, as well as business resources
What it does provides a uniform and homogenous view of virtualized and physical resources
manages the full lifecycle of a virtual application landscape (Landscape as a Service)
provides support for configurable resource allocation policies
allows for reuse, consistency and compliance based on a high level of automation
allows for on-demand dashboarding, analytics and reporting
eCloudManager Benefits
Begin or accelerate the transition to a cloud-enabled IT infrastructure and company that focuses on the applications
increasing SLAs, end-users demand “cloud”-like ease of use, speed
early focus on management and automation to always remain in control
Lower costs, especially lower effort for repetitive “keeping-the-lights-on” tasks
optimize IT stack resource utilization => green IT
increase application accessibility, availability, performance and stability
simplify administration, reduce the daily workload
Transition to value-add activities that improve the support for the business side
rapid prototyping, custom development, increased testing for a much higher level of business process innovation based on enterprise applications
easy ramp-ups with template-based rollout of new features/systems, training systems
fluidOps Integration
fluidOps Stands Out in Cloud Vendor Benchmark by Experton Group
In a recently published study by the Experton Group, fluidOps is named one of the technologically most promising platforms for cloud management. “Users should pay special attention to the cloud management product family of Fluid Operations AG, a young German technology company. The new version 3.5 of the Walldorf-based start-up’s eCloudManager is among the most interesting cloud management platform technologies in the market.” - Published in May 2011 -
http://www.cio.de/was_ist_cloud_computing/anbieter/2274043/index4.html