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UShareSoft © 2012, All Rights ReservedUShareSoft © 2012, All Rights Reserved

Building “Dynamic” App StoresBuilding “Dynamic” App Stores

13th June 2012

James [email protected]: @jamesgweir

13th June 2012

James [email protected]: @jamesgweir

Booth #369Booth #369

mailto:[email protected]

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Marketplaces and App Stores


AWS Marketplace

• Setting the trend (more pressure on the competition)

• Federating their ecosystem

• New business opportunities

• Provide flexible pricing models for ISVs (ISV setting the price)

• Mono-cloud, opaque images

• AWS recommend ISVs to have their own processes to publish to marketplace

• Lack of tooling to publish to the marketplace

Key PointsKey Points


App Store for Cloud ProvidersBuild ISV Ecosystem

• Multi-hypervisor & Cloud Formats

• Bridge to private clouds (that they may also be hosting)

• Tools and services for image management to partners and channels

• Injection of specific managed services

RequirementsRequirements

EnterpriseEnterprise Parters/SIsParters/SIs ISVsISVs

Multi-CloudApp StoreMulti-CloudApp Store

Public Cloud+

Managed Services

Public Cloud+

Managed Services

Private Cloud (Hosted by Cloud Provider)Private Cloud (Hosted by Cloud Provider)


App Store for EnterpriseCollaborate & Share

• Collaborate and share specific templates with teams

• Role-based access control of templates

• Multi-cloud (bridge between private and public)

• Tools and services for image management for internal teams

• Standard way to deliver software to the cloud

ProcessProcess

OS DevOS Dev Software DevSoftware Dev QAQA PerfPerf OperationsOperations

Test/Pre-Prod ProductionTest/Pre-Prod Production

Collaboration PlatformCollaboration Platform

• OS Dev Team : Maintain OS Repos and Create OS Templates• Software Dev Team : Populate Project Catalog and Create App Templates• QA / Perf Teams : Generate Images and Test on Pre-Prod Cloud Environment• Operations : Use Certified Templates for Production


App Store for ISVsFederate ISV Ecosystem

• Multi-Cloud

• Allow partners to extend and change the templates

• Publish directly to other marketplaces

RequirementsRequirementsCustomers & PartnersCustomers & Partners

ISV TeamISV TeamPublic and Private Clouds & MarketplacesPublic and Private Clouds & Marketplaces


IaaS Cloud Images

Current Industry Problems with Cloud ImagesCurrent Industry Problems with Cloud Images

• Built manually

• No software governance

• Rebuild for each Cloud environment

• Difficult to collaborate and share

• Opaque image proliferation

To harness the full agility of Cloud, software onboarding requires to be automated and have self-service

To harness the full agility of Cloud, software onboarding requires to be automated and have self-service


Model-Driven Templates

XML, JSONXML, JSON

Modeling allows innovation around tooling and automationModeling allows innovation around tooling and automation


Cloud App Store Services

Template FactoryTemplate Factory App Store Front / Cloud PortalApp Store Front / Cloud Portal

Self-Service Tooling + AutomationSelf-Service Tooling + Automation Collaboration & Sharing, One-Click RunCollaboration & Sharing, One-Click Run


UShareSoft's UForge • Self-Service Template Modeling Tools for Software Onboarding &

Software Governance (100% API Coverage)

• White-Labelled Dynamic App Store Platform> To create a thriving ecosystem around a cloud service> Provides new unique added value and business opportunities

• Deployment Blueprints to automate complex multi-tier solutions

Portfolio> UForge Online

> UForge Enterprise Edition

> UForge Cloud Provider Edition


Multi Cloud App Store EcosystemLaunched: 12th June 2012


UForge Architecture


Cloud Architecture

> OS agnostic images

> Generate to any hypervizor

> Publish to any Cloud

> Dev-Ops Integration

> Software Governance

> Share and Collaborate Your Templates


Demo


Key Takeaways

• App Store is the next level value for cloud computing• Multi-Cloud App Stores for bridging to enterprises• Tools are core to develop a thriving ecosystem• Template modeling allowing Multi-Cloud App Stores

possible• Tooling around template modeling for easy software on-

boarding• Tools are core to develop a thriving ecosystem• Get your own App Store platform with UForge


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Q & A

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