Enabling the Journey to Automation

By Amjad Afanah

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Applications

• Drive competitive advantage

• Enable new business opportunity

IT Operations

DEMAND

• Faster delivery expectations

• Embrace DevOps while enforcing security

The Business

RESULT

• Lower customer satisfaction• Growing use of shadow IT

• Increased risk• Missed opportunity

The move toward digital transformation

Benefits

HyperForm enables the journey to automation so that you can deliver services to your teams faster.

This journey has multiple entry points.

• You can start by moving towards an automated, self-service provisioning model to deliver infrastructure on any cloud for IT efficiency, or

• by containerizing your existing applications to turbocharge DevOps

HyperForm – Enabling the Journey to Automation

Physical Virtual Cloud

HyperFormSelf-Service

Policy-based Governance with Entitlements M

onitoring

Cost Metering

Infrastructure Services

App Container Services

Custom Services

18+ Clouds & PlatformsQuotas & Approvals

On-the-fly Containerizatio

nService Discovery

DBaaS, PaaS

Code Run

Plug-ins

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The High Cost of Manual VM Provisioning

• Long Waits

• Rising Costs

• Inconsistent Infrastructure

• Rapid Delivery

• Lower CapEx & OpEX

• Fewer Errors

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Infrastructure AutomationMANUAL VM PROVISIONING

Long waits. After a request is made, it typically takes days or even weeks for IT to deliver new infrastructure.

SELF-SERVICE PROVISIONING

Rising costs. Manual processes reduce IT efficiency, while increased use of infrastructure outside of IT’s control leads to over-provisioning and overspending.

Manual Provisioning Can Take Days or Even Weeks!!

Delivering Infrastructure Can Be Done in Minutes not Weeks!

Rapid delivery. Self-provisioning for business users means infrastructure is delivered in minutes, not days, reducing the likelihood of shadow IT.

Fewer errors. Reduces configuration errors that are a natural consequence of manual processes.

Inconsistent infrastructure. Poorly executed manual tasks can lead to configuration errors, requiring time-consuming reworking.

Lower CapEx and OpEx. Eliminates underutilization of VMs and improves IT efficiency.

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Enabling Governance & Cost Metering

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• Loss of Control

• Weak Oversight

• Rising Costs

• Stronger Governance

• Lower CapEx and OpEx

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Governance, Entitlements, Approvals, & Cost MeteringMANUAL APPROVALS

Loss of control. The business turns to unsanctioned infrastructure as a faster alternative, at the expense of security, governance, and visibility.

HIGH GOVERNANCE

Weak oversight. Manual enforcement of granular entitlements and other security policies leads to errors and inconsistencies across clouds.

Strong governance.

• Users get automated policy enforcement and a consistent workflow for provisioning infrastructure on any cloud.

• Automatically enforces policies and quotas that prevent the underutilization of resources and insecure access policies.

Rising costs. Infrastructure cannot be adequately monitored across clouds, leading to overspending.

Lower CapEx and OpEx. Cohesive utilization and expense monitoring means you can see where to optimize for better cost efficiency.

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Hybrid Cloud Management

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• Fractured Organizations

• Lack of Visibility

• Rising Costs

• IT Efficiency

• Holistic Management

• Lower CapEX and OpEX

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Hybrid Cloud ManagementDISPARATE TOOLS

FOR CLOUD MANAGEMENT

Fractured organizations. You need to appoint separate teams with varying skill sets, tools, and operating processes to manage multiple clouds.

CENTRALIZED CLOUD MANAGEMENT

IT efficiency. Supervise all workloads using a single interface.

Lack of visibility. Use of multiple management tools impairs your ability to oversee utilization and policy enforcement.

Rising costs. Infrastructure cannot be adequately monitored across clouds, leading to overspending.

Holistic management. A centralized console enables you to manage resources, workloads, and operations across any cloud, ensuring secure use of public clouds.

Lower CapEx and OpEx. Cohesive utilization and expense monitoring means you can see where to optimize for better cost efficiency.

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Life-Cycle Management

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• Manual Updates Driven By IT

• Automated Life-Cycle Management

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Managing Infrastructure & Apps Post-ProvisionINITIAL PROVISIONING

Manual Updates by IT. Day-2 operations end up being a major bottleneck for IT teams struggling to manage infrastructure and applications post-provision.

LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT

Full lifecycle management. Automates downstream operations, lowering the cost to apply patches, scale out resources, and update configurations.

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Lift, Containerize & Shift Legacy Applications

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• Orphaned Legacy Apps

• Insufficient Automation

• Manual Service Discovery

• Agility

• Portability

• Zero Learning Curve

• Ease of Integration

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Containerizing Legacy Applications

VIRTUALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE

Orphaned legacy apps. The cost of migration delays efforts to modernize and migrate legacy apps to lower-cost infrastructure.

CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS

Insufficient automation. Containers are designed to improve application portability, but typically require code changes and a long learning curve.

Agility. Eliminates IT bottlenecks and turbocharges DevOps for rapid business innovation.

Portability. Automates the modernization of legacy applications so they can run anywhere.

Manual service discovery. Services to aid integration require additional effort and expertise to containerize.

Zero learning curve. Requires no app code changes; performs on-the-fly containerization.

Ease of integration. Automates service discovery for no-effort integration with any external service.

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Dockerfile

docker build

Container Scheduling & Orchestration

Package

Complexity in Adoption:

• Developer Skills Gap: Learning Curve Needed for Adoption of Containers (e.g. Creating Dockerfiles & Docker Compose)

• Complexity in External System Integration: (i.e. Storage, Networking, Logging, etc.), State of Official Drivers, Third Party Drivers, etc.

• Service Discovery & Scaling Intelligence Not Built into Enterprise Legacy Apps

• IT Issues in Supporting Containerized Applications: Governance, Security, Isolation, Lifecycle Management, Easily Setting Up Infrastructure Services Optimized for Containers

ComposeBlueprints

Network StorageLogging

Legacy App Journey to Containerization

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Extending Docker Compose & Docker Machine through Plug-ins written in BASH, PowerShell, Python, Ruby or Perl:

• On-the-fly Containerization of Legacy Applications – no code change needed

• Automatic Service Discovery -- for HTTP Load Balancing & Databases

• On-the-fly Integration with External Services – e.g. automated storage management (creating, mounting and taking snapshots of external volumes)

More than 400 multi-tier app templates published – enabling instant deployment on containers

Legacy App Journey to Containerization with HyperForm

Auto-ScalingService Discovery

Self-Service Governance

HyperForm

Service Templates

Service Cluster

Compose

TemplatesHyperForm

UIComposeBlueprints

Machine

VMBlueprint

Network StorageLogging

Plug-ins20+ Lifecycle

Events Entitlements 5 Scripting Languages

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Enabling IT as a Service

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• Rigid Approach • Extensible Framework

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IT as a ServiceRIGID, INFLEXIBLE

APPROACH

Rigid Approach. Many cloud management & PaaS solutions are extremely rigid with limited extensibility and vendor lock-in expected.

EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR ANY SERVICE

Extensible Framework. HyperForm’s advanced plug-ins, which can be invoked at more than 15 different lifecycle stages enable any service on any cloud.

The plug-ins framework, which relies on custom scripts that can be written in BASH, PowerShell, Perl, Ruby or Python, enables advanced application deployment and facilitates integration with any external service.

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Enabling the Journey to Automation

• Long Waits

• Weak Oversight

• Rising Costs

• Rapid Delivery

• Stronger Governance

• Lower CapEx & OpEx

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Enabling the Journey to Automation