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QualiSystems Proprietary & Confidential
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Alex Henthorn-Iwane
Vice-President, Marketing
Agile Infrastructure Automation
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QualiSystems Proprietary & Confidential
Global Software Company
Established 2004, privately held
North America HQ: Santa Clara, CA
R&D Center: Tel Aviv, Israel
Market-leading supplier of automation solutions for:
• IT infrastructure self-service for DevOPS agility and cloud evolution
• Network test and test lab efficiency, productivity and savings
Mature, proven technology:
• Hundreds of customer deployments
• Millions of infrastructure elements managed
• $Billions in infrastructure managed
Quali Company Overview
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The Goal:
• Cloud-like self-service
• Continuous everything
• SDN/SDDC
• Hybrid elasticity
• Agile /Lean IT / DevOps
Oh Infrastructure, How Agile Art Thou?
The Reality?
451 Research reports that 61% of companies were still at
the virtualization-only stage in the path to cloud readiness
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Agile Infrastructure Implies Automation
Self-Service/Automation
APP APP APP APP
Application Delivery Stakeholders
Primary Value
Stream
Secondary Value
Stream
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Challenge: Self-Service Model
How to evolve self-service?
• Prevent VM creep/resource gridlock
• Make self-service a round-trip
• Reservation-based
• Both auto-provisioning and auto-reclamation
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Existing IT infrastructure a major obstacle• Massive investments in legacy infrastructure
• Silo’d & homegrown applications
• Industry-specific infrastructure-beyond the traditional datacenter “stack”
Automation Challenge: Legacy’s Long Tail
NTT Europe 2013 Survey of 300 CIOs on
barriers to cloud adoption
58% of CIOssaid the complexity of
their existing IT
environment was their
main barrier to adopting
the cloud
How to create self-service from this mess?
• Old apps & infrastructure are like the proverbial “old soldier”
• Mainframe + dedicated server + private VM + public cloud VM?
• Agility mandate is in no less intense in these environments
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Challenge: Automation is Fixed or Fragmented
Automation
“80% of automation today is scripts
(you just might not know it)”
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Infrastructure teams have few programmers, majority are non-
programmers
Programmer bottleneck
Knowledge not systematized
• Lives in programmer’s brains
• Tribal knowledge phenomenon
Non-programmer productivity:
• Limited, dependent
• Expertise trapped in silos
Automation can’t scale its penetration of business processes
Challenge: Code-Centric Automation
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Most orchestration & automation built for
compute virtualization/cloud
Complex IT infrastructure are topologies
Networking gear = metal = not built for
multi-tenancy
Even with overlay network virtualization,
you still have to deal with the fabric
SDN will make things more complex
Challenge: Not Ready for Networking
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Inventory objects:
• Actual inventory including physical, virtual, cloud, apps, tools, subnets, etc.
• Hierarchical structure for granular multi-tenancy
o EG: Chassis—blade—port for bare metal switches
o Attributes: abstraction+ provisioning object parameters
• Enables reservation/multi-tenancy
Provisioning objects
• Resource level interfaces
Process task objects
• Test automation (functional, sanity, regression)
• Continuous Integration
Build & Maintain an Object Layer
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Pre-packaged libraries (of course)
Independent interface creation:
• Integrate and “objectize” API’s
• Utilize existing scripts (TCL, python, etc.)— no
“starting from zero”
• Capture and objectize CLI, SNMP, terminal
interactions
Make them small and maintainable
Overcomes interfacing obstacles
Removes roadmap dependencies
Helps integrate legacy infrastructure
OOTB & DIY Integration Tools
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• Visual environment creation
o Inventory-based modeling
o Simple to any arbitrary network topology
o Abstract design to maximize utilization
o Packaged with provisioning & reclamation
flows
• Visual workflow authoring
o Hide syntax from users
o Dramatically scale “service creation”
o Continuous integration, test automation
Integrate Orchestration & Workflow
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Infrastructure Self-Service to
People & Processes
TO
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Agile Infrastructure Maturity Model
Local
&
Manual
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Ad Hoc
Level 2
Shared
Round-trip
Self-Service
True Hybrid
Cloud
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Operational
Automation of
Complex Infrastrutcure
Continuous Integration
against elastic
infrastructure
Level 4
Enterprise
Resource
Consolidation
Continuous Delivery
of End-to-End
Environments
Level 5
Strategic
Object-Layer
Collaboration
Continuous
Deployment
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Orchestrate & Automate
• Legacy, traditional, dedicated
• Private and public cloud
• Software-Defined Networking
• Reserve, provision & reclaim
Full object & workflow automation toolset
Patented, object-oriented automation technology
What’s QualiSystems Solution?
Agile Infrastructure Automation
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Risk-Mitigated Application Evolution
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• Bare metal provisioning of complex data center environmentso Experienced architects create complex
provisioning workflows
o Less experienced engineers can execute provisioning processes successfully
• Provisioning of converged infrastructure product stackso From bare metal to “ready to consume”
o Accelerates time to value
• Orchestrator for ongoing data center automationo Sustainable, object-oriented architecture
o Can work with variety of automation languages
Data Center Provisioning &
Orchestration
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• SDNs offer northbound
API’s for applications to
drive network behavior
• Yet SDN adopters will need
to manage heterogeneous
network environments with
both legacy and SDN
elements
SDN Network DevOps
• CloudShell provides the means to automate the delivery of
SDN/legacy network environments for agile network application
development, testing and deployment
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