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Cloud Computing for Developers Hosted by IBM and Amazon Web ServicesOctober 1, 2009

Adam Ginsburg [email protected]:@aginsburg

Cloud Computing for Developers hosted by IBM and Am azon Web Services

Agenda and partner speakers:

� WebRadar - Stephan Beauchesne([email protected])

� Phurnace - [email protected] and [email protected]

� Ixion LLC - Steven Gerhardt ([email protected])

� Virtuosant - Eleanor Anderson-Miles ([email protected])

� Ascendant Technology - Matt Pomroy, [email protected] Alden Taylor ([email protected])

� OpenLogic – [email protected]


IBM Software Available on EC2

� A partnership between IBM and AWS that allows you to develop and deliver your applications on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

� Easy to use. Start developing your applications on IBM software on Amazon EC2 in minutes

� No barriers. IBM is providing software at no charge for development & test ofcommercial applications on Amazon EC2. Pay only infrastructure charges - as little as $0.10/hour.

� Pay as you go. Run production versions of leading IBM software products and pay hourly only for what you need, when you need it.

� Portability. Use your existing IBM licenses for most IBM software products in the cloud or on premise - it’s now your choice.

� Products. Currently DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere sMash, Lotus Forms Turbo, IBM Mashup Center, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, WebSphere Portal Server and Lotus Web Content Management. We have announced our intent to offer others.


$1.60$0.88Lotus Forms Turbo

$1.48$0.81WebSphere Application Server

$3.79$1.98IBM Mashup Center

Hourly Price (in USD)

IBM Production ready Amazon Machine ImagesStandard

Small (default)

Standard Large

Standard Extra Large

High CPU Medium

High CPU Extra Large

DB2 Express Edition $0.38 $0.65

DB2 Workgroup Edition $1.31 $2.50 $3.30

Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition $0.38 $0.65

Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Edition $1.31 $2.50 $3.30

WebSphere sMash $0.50 $0.60

Lotus Web Content Management Server Standard Edition $2.48 $4.82 $8.71

WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Web Content Management Server Standard Edition

$6.39 $12.64 $24.35

IBM Production AMIs on EC2 http://aws.amazon.com/IBM


How can you use IBM on EC2?

� Proof-of-Concept/Development. Many projects begin by creating development and test environments. Development AMIs are available at no additional fee beyond Amazon EC2 usage fees.

� Steady State Usage. Migrate your existing IBM software licenses to the Amazon cloud and only pay the normal hourly charges for EC2.

� On-Demand Usage. Cost-effective, pay as you go licensing for select IBM software allows you to scale up or down the number of instances to meet your workload demands. This model works well for unpredictable or variable workloads

� Hybrid. Use a combination of steady state licenses for the predictable low water mark and on-demand licenses for the variable workloads.

http://aws.amazon.com/IBM

� Founder and president of Web Presence Architects, a US-based IBM business partner

� The firm developed a WPS portlet called WebRadar, a suite of tools designed to enhance the reporting capabilities and Web page editing of IBM's Lotus Web Content Management (LWCM).

� Previously was a Web Project Manager for the International Finance Corporation (the private sector arm of the World Bank) for 8 years, where he oversaw the production of internal and external Web sites andspearheaded the adoption of Aptrix , the precursor to IBM’s LWCM.

Managers of large LWCM websites need to stay ahead of the complex page lifecycle process. So they need tools that

increase their effectiveness.

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Rapidly create sites, site areas and content

Provide additional reports and charts on LWCM

Make mass changes to metadata.

Cut your setup time over 50% when you use WebRadar with LWCM on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Install a production-ready portal in

less than an hour and use Site Creator to setup your page meta data and upload page content.

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[email protected]@[email protected]@webradarwcm.com

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Daniel NelsonVice President of ProductsPhurnace SoftwareOctober 1, 2009

Copyright © 2007 Phurnace Software, Inc. -- CONFIDENTIAL

Phurnace WebSphere Portal ® Deliver™

Configures and deploys Portal Applications� Themes

� Skins

� Portlets

� Content

A powerful tool for WebSphere Portal administrators� No scripting required

� GUI based, or full command line for automated deployments

� Fits into your existing deployment process

Builds off of current Portal tools such as:� Release Builder

� XMLAccess

Works in physical, virtual, or cloud environments

Copyright © 2009 Phurnace Software, Inc. -- CONFIDENTIAL 17


With Phurnace you can…

Support the current deployment requirements:� Deploy/Update portlet application� Deploy/Update themes and skins� Deploy/Update page(s) to portal� Create a portal release� Deploy/Update Personalization and other Shared Resources (User and

Content spot Classes)� Publish Personalization Configuration.� Deploy/Update portlet service

Plus:� Configure and deploy to WAS resources along with Portal resources� “Preview” configuration changes safely� Identify dependencies automatically� Move only the pieces you want, or clone the entire Portal instance� Troubleshoot by comparing “working” to “broken”� Create an inventory of existing configurations� Compare & deploy configs across dev, test & production environments


Copyright © 2007 Phurnace Software, Inc. -- CONFIDENTIALCopyright © 2009 Phurnace Software, Inc. -- CONFIDENTIAL

DevelopmentTest

Production

Phurnace WebSphere Portal® Deliver™

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DevelopmentTest

Production

Portlets

Skins

Themes

Content

Migration

Dependencies


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DevelopmentTest

Production

Portlets

Skins

Themes

Content

Migration

Dependencies


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DevelopmentTest

Production

Portlets

Skins

Themes

Content

Migration

Dependencies


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Bridging the Automation Gap


Development

Develop

BuildSource

Package

Test

Deploy

Monitor

Troubleshoot

Configure

Optimize

IT Operations

Example Products:Rational Application Developer, Build Forge, ClearCase, SVN,

CVS

Example Products:Tivoli Provisioning Manager, HP

Server Automation, BMC BladeLogic, CA Unicenter

Automation Gap

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Development

Develop

BuildSource

Package

Test

Deploy

Monitor

Troubleshoot

Configure

Optimize

IT Operations

Automation Gap

Cloud PublicPrivate

Bridging the Gap

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Case Study: Quintana Private Equity

Environment:�WebSphere 6.0�WebSphere Portal 6.0�SLES 10

Process�Snapshot existing physical infrastructure�Generalize the snapshot using provided wizards�Deploy to Amazon EC2:

• EARs, WARs, content, skins, themes, both Portal and application server configurations


Speaker(s):

Steven [email protected]. Business Development http://www.ixiononline.com

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Ixion, L.L.C.

► Ixion – Founded 2000, IBM Premier Business Partner based in Texas

► IBM Lotus and WebSphere solutions and services provider

► Regional Solution Provider for Portal, Lotus & WebSphere based solutions


Ixion + ? = Customer Value

► Move Faster

► Lower Maintenance

► Lower Risk

► Lowering Cost of Delivery?


Ixion + Amazon + Phurnace = Customer Value

► Move Faster – turnkey solution

► Lower Maintenance – full support agreement

► Lower Risk – AWS infrastructure

► Lowering Cost of Delivery >> CloudCast Blue deliver s Value! • ( >25% over traditional hosting )

CloudCast Blue


Ixion + Phurnace + AWS Platform

AWSServers

WebSphere, WebSphere Portal

Phurnace Engine“ How”

Current Server Profiles“ Where”

- Hostname- Ports- Database location- Cluster size- etc.

Configurations“ What”

- Application- JDBC- JMS- JNDI- etc.

CloudCast Blue Delivery

Snapshot Compare Install Rollback ReportingPreview Update


Quintana Capital Group, LP

IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Quickr serving large energy fund with 180 investors

Solution: A WebSphere Portal

Express 6.1 website with Web

Content Management. Ixion deploys

with AWS EC2 hosted and Phurnace

Deliver.

Results:

Web site up and running quickly

Robust web content management

and delivery infrastructure for files

and reports

Low maintenance / hosting services

Challenge: New $650 million energy

fund based in Houston; needs website

and way to deliver fund information and

reporting to 180 investment partners

Keys to the solution:

Simplicity, turn-keyNon-technical administration team to support siteWeb Content Management and Lotus Quickr Document Manager included


Ixion + Amazon = Move Faster

► Move Faster

� Amazon Machine Images –create / reuse–Demonstrations for Sales

–Customer Proof of Concept

–Reduce 'Phase 1' Timeline

–(Zero on hw acquisition / provision)

The Challenge: ... needs website

and way to deliver fund information

and reporting to 180 investment

partners


Ixion + Amazon = Lower Maint.

► Lower Maintenance–Infrastructure = Service

–Freeing up resources

–Remove 10 hours/month on 5 servers

Keys to the Solution...

Simplicity, turn-key

Few technical resources / skills


Ixion + Amazon = Lower Risk

► Lower Risk–Reliable services

–One infrastructure: Operations streamlined for customer support practices.

Reliable Results:

Reliability built in

Back-up / restore services included


Session N05: Portal by the HourLeveraging Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud Services with IBM WebSphere Portal Solutions

Marshall Lamb, IBM WebSphere Portal Development

Mike Culver, Amazon Web Services

Steven Gerhardt, VP Business Development, Ixion, LL C


Ixion, L.L.C. - Thank you.

Steven Gerhardt

VP Business Development

Ixion, LLC

(O) 713.933.0339 (cell) 832.724.8692

Yahoo im: stevengerhardt

Internet e-mail address: [email protected]

http://www.ixiononline.com

Software to Manage Tomorrow’s Healthcare Operations

We are the Virtuosi of the SMB

healthcare IT world.

Virtuosant and Amazon Web Services’Elastic Compute Cloud

40Company Confidential

Who is Virtuosant?

Smaller hospitals and doctors’ offices face the same operational issues and government regulations as larger providers, but they do not have the staff, the technical expertise, nor the budget to meet these demands. This is where Virtuosant steps in to deliver IT products that keep these organizations running at their best.

Few IT companies focus with dedication and vision on providing operational efficiencies for the smaller healthcare provider. Virtuosant does. Virtuosant’s business model allows the company to do so at a price the small healthcare provider can manage.


What Virtuosant Does: Our Product Lines

Virtuosant delivers the ability to achieve operational excellence,

helping healthcare organizations keep pace with their needs.

�VFAST Healthcare Operational Portal (HCOP) offers smaller hospital

administrators a real time solution that gets Labor Utilization, Revenue

Cycle, Admissions, and Finance changes to them fast so they can

make management decisions when needed.

�VFAST Virtuosant Foundation Portal (VFP) offers clinics, labs, and

physician practices affordable software that resolves critical IT issues,

including cutting edge portal-based security and recovery, information

management, Daily Scorecards, and email management.


The Timing Was Right

�Virtuosant seeking:

»To expand its development platform

»To access extensive development and production

capabilities

»To determine ways to control financial outlay

»To access quality QA environment


What IBM Brings to Virtuosant

�IBM announces agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

to deliver market leading software to clients and developers

�IBM bundles software in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

(Amazon EC2) environment, providing comprehensive

portfolio of products on AWS for development and production

that Virtuosant uses:

• IBM DB2 database software

•WebSphere Portal Server software

•Lotus Web Content Management

•WebSphere sMash

• Amazon Machine Images


The Results: Virtuosant + Portal Express + Cloud =

�Virtuosant Manages its business better:

» Saves 30% in development costs (“Pay-As-You-Go” dev model)

»Ease of management through AWS IT infrastructure

»Enables worldwide development organization and rapid growth

»Sales process more successful: Customer demos with AWS

�Virtuosant ‘s Customers Benefit greatly:

»Customers up and running in 2-3 weeks

»Customers get cutting edge technologies, software, and support

»Customers get infrastructure (Recovery, technology foundation)

»Customers that do not have the skill, infrastructure, staff, and budget

to run themselves get high-quality, hosted, managed services


In closing

�IBM and Cloud Technology offers Virtuosant

unprecedented options: the tools, customer offerings

and the support that small businesses need for

growing business

»1) Delivering an IBM cloud services portfolio to partners

»2) Helping partners design, build, deliver and market cloud

services

»5) Enabling partners to offer cloud hosted and managed

September 24, 2009

Dynamic Portal Provisioning with AWS/IBM and RAFW

Ascendant TechnologyPresented by: Matt Pomroy

AWS/IBM Virtual Dev Day

AWS/IBM and RAFW

Agenda

Atech Overview

WP Provisioning Needs and Challenges

Solution Idea – AWS/IBM and Build Forge/RAFW

How did we Do It?

Business Value to Atech & Uses for WP Customers

Q & A

AWS/IBM and RAFW

Ascendant - Deep IBM Experience and Asset-Based Consulting

100% IBM Focused

Over 400 IBM Product Certifications

Co-Authored 17 IBM Redbooks

Co-Authored IBM Training courses

Portfolio of Branded Assets and Growing

Tier 1 Software Services Partner

All of us carry a SW number!

SVI Enables us to invest in Pre-Sales

Hosted and Managed Services supported in Belgrade, Serbia, Florianopolis, Brazil and U.S. Locations

Global Delivery Offerings with Office in Pune, Indi a and Florianopolis, Brazil

260 Employees World-wide – Hired over 60 people in 2 008 !!

Recognition:

Winner Lotus Distinguished Partner North America 2007, Finalist

2006, 2008

Winner 2009 IBM Rational Beacon Award!

Winner Lotus Best Portal Solution 2009

Winner Impact SOA Partner of the Year, Innovation and Customer

Awards 2007, 2008 & 2009

Winner Rational Change & Release Management Award 2008, Top

Sales & Marketing Award 2009

Inc 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies

AWS/IBM and RAFW

WP Provisioning Needs and Challenges

Needs

3 server environment for demonstrations and training

Multiple environments to avoid resource contention

Easy to stand up and tear down

Cost-effective

Challenges

Local VMWare slow

Corporate VMWare servers full

No budget to buy additional hardware

Limited internal IT staff to assist

Limited resources to build new WP images

AWS/IBM and RAFW

Solution Idea – AWS/IBM and Build Forge/RAFW

Leverage existing AWS/IBM WP developer AMI for targ et environments

Use base SUSE Linux AMI to build Build Forge/RAFW AM I

Create Build Forge project to provision the environ ment

Create Build Forge project to tear down the environ ment when finished

AWS/IBM and RAFW

Environment Launch Project

AWS/IBM and RAFW

Reusable Launch Library

AWS/IBM and RAFW

Build Forge EC2 Environment

AWS/IBM and RAFW

Business Value to Atech & Uses for WP Customers

Value to Atech

Low cost, pay per use

Able to scale pre-sales and enablement teams

WP AMI provided excellent head start

Uses for WP Customers

Dynamic environments for

o Test

o UAT

o Training

Open Logic, IBM and EC2

Lotus and WebSphere in the cloud

David Strachan, Senior Architect

� 4 practices

• Portal & mashups

• Web content management

• Business process automation

• Social & collaborative computing

� Based in UK – London and Worcester

� Recognition

• Lotusphere awards 2009

• Distinguished partner, NE IOT

• Platinum awards 2008

• Partner of the Year

• Top Marketing Performer

• Best Solution Provider

• Beacon Awards finalist 2007

• Sunday times tech track 100 twice

� Software Services partner

Presenter introduction

� David Strachan

� Senior architect at Open Logic

� 6 years at IBM, of course

• UK and France

� 5 years in business partners

� Open Logic architecture leader

� [email protected]

� 07891 059191

Open Logic and AWS

� Move faster – accelerate solution delivery

� Reduce cost – remove barriers

� Automate – rebuild, reuse

� Deliver better value for money

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Move faster – accelerate solution

delivery

� Set up new servers very quickly

• Especially if coupled with an automation solution

� Move faster than your own operations people

can

• Eg one large bank were installing 70 servers per week

and had a 20-week backlog; everyone else got to the

back of the queue

� Focus on value-add

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Traditional EC2

Lead-time 2-3 weeks 20 mins

Capacity restrictions Rack, network etc Few

Reduce cost – remove barriers

� Get high quality infrastructure for no up-front

cost

• Reliable and fast

� Small and medium-sized enterprises can run

WebSphere configurations otherwise

inaccessible due to cost

• Multi-server clusters

• Separation of concerns

• Virtualisation

� Outpace your own data centre

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Reduce cost – remove barriers (ii)

Traditional EC2

Set-up £30,375 £0

Annual hosting £44,040 £29,959

1-year cost £74,415 £29,959

3-year cost £162,495 £89,877

Difference -£72,618

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� Source: Best hosting quote from UK provider, EC2 online calculator

� Architecture: 8x wintel servers to host WebSphere Portal & WCM

� Services, support and licence costs have been removed as these were the

same per environment; only the hosting costs are shown above

Automate – rebuild, reuse (i)

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Automate – rebuild, reuse (ii)

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InstanceInstance

PortalPortal

Build SystemBuild System

RAFWRAFW

Custom scriptsCustom scripts

Build Forge consoleBuild Forge console

Media libraryMedia library

ConfigurationConfiguration

Deploy application components

AuditAudit

�IBM Rational Build Forge

�IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere

InstanceInstance

WASWAS

InstanceInstance

Process ServerProcess Server

New instanceNew instance

??????

Some experiences

� All the normal virtualisation considerations apply

� Consider how you’ll manage many instances,

and change

• Especially if you have to cross-charge

� Amazon do have some behind-the-scenes

restrictions

• Eg Base windows AMI can’t communicate on port 389

� Got to have a strategy for recovering from

(unlikely) instance failure

• Unlike in your own data centre, you can’t retrieve a

stopped instance64

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IBM showcase platform

WebSphere Portal

Lotus Web Content Management

WebSphere Process Server

Lotus Forms

Open Logic company web site

WebSphere Portal

Lotus Web Content ManagementGoing live October 2009

Open Logic uses EC2 to reduce project start-up times, delivering

more business value for less money

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Solution components:

� WebSphere Portal

� Lotus Web Content Management

� Amazon EC2

“Delivering services via EC2 enables us to deliver business value to our customers faster and for less money.”

— Source: David Strachan, Senior Technical Architect,

Open Logic

Business challenge:

On shorter projects, software installation and conf iguration can consume high percentages of the project budget. This leaves less money to deliver business value to cust omers, reducing competitiveness.

Solution:

By combining WebSphere/Lotus services in the cloud with IBM Rational configuration tools, Open Logic is abl e to reduce middleware set up times to hours instead of days or weeks.

Benefits:

� Open Logic delivers more business value for less mo ney, increasing our competitiveness.

� Dramatically reduced middleware setup times saves money.

� Pay as you go delivers performance when required.

Open Logic accelerates delivery of IBM banking showcase platform

using Amazon cloud computing

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Solution components:

� WebSphere Portal

� Lotus Web Content Management

� WebSphere Process Server

� Amazon EC2

“By using EC2, Open Logic managed to finish the whole showcase before traditional servers would have been ready.”

—Source: Chris Patterson, Business Development Mgr,

Open Logic

Business challenge:

To assist with sales of IBM software, it’s often us eful to build a proof of concept. However finding hardware is hard and leaving machines on site requires frequent trip s to service them.

Solution:

By combining WebSphere/Lotus services in the cloud with IBM Rational configuration tools, Open Logic was ab le to deliver a banking showcase platform, without a data centre, in under a month.

Benefits:

� IBM customers can access the platform from anywhere .

� Dramatically reduced middleware setup times saves money.

� Pay as you go delivers performance when required.

Showcasing Lotus and WebSphere technology to UK ban king customers


Thank you for attending.

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