1. The Appliance Factory Company
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2. UShareSoft
Simplifying Software Delivery
“First enterprise platform that hugely
simplifies how software appliances are
built, maintained, & deployed”
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3. IT Evolution Creating New Challenges
A New Approach to Software Delivery Required
“The costs of human resources for producing, operating and maintaining
software will soon become prohibitive” Source Forrester March 9, 2009
70% of IT Budget Version Sprawl & Software Control
Spent in operations!
Solution Complexity More Formats
TTM Too Long
Do More with Less Try & Buy or PoCs
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4. What We Provide
Factory and Tools for
reducing the complexity of software
integration, deployments, maintenance
and delivery
Automated deployments
Qualified Open Source Distributed architecture
Catalogues
Many formats
Appliance simple creation
Optimize a JeOS software
image
Fine grain flexible build
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5. Simplifying Software Delivery
Most efficient way to deliver software to physical, virtualization and cloud
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6. Software Governance & Control
for virtualization & cloud
Control TTM, SW Governance
& Risks Management
• Control Software Image Content
• Control Configuration Sprawl
• Control Appliance Life Cycle
• Control Software Licensing
• Enhance IT Agility and TTM
• Control Collaboration & Sharing of IP
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7. UForge Open Source Catalogue
Major Open Source Operating Systems Supported
(Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora & Open Solaris)
60 of the Top Open Source Projects Qualified and Ready to Use
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8. Costs Savings Potential
Proprietary
Average TCO* Breakdown
IT Projects
Open Source
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Implementations
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TCO = 100 TCO = 72 TCO = 29
* Three Years TCO; Source include Gartner and UShareSoft
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9. Use Case
Use Case : Average Monolithic Virtual Appliance
Goal : Develop a high quality virtual appliance
Nb Phases Without UForge With UForge
1 Appliance Design & Cookbook 30 hours 30 hours
2 Selecting components and Qualification 30 hours 15 hours
3 OS Optimization and sizing 50 hours 5 hours
4 Developing Pre-Configuration 80 hours 50 hours*
5 Assembly, License Mgt, Kbd and 1st boot 20 hours 100% Auto
6 Image Generation, VMWare, Cloud.... 24 hours** 100% Auto
7 Testing 60 hours 60 hours
100% Auto
8 Upgrade your appliance (New version) 80 hours 10 hours***
Total 340 hours 140 hours
* 50 hours for the first appliance, 5 hours for re-use and upgrades
** 24 hours per OS Platform, need 12 hours more for each new OS Platform
*** Upgrade with UForge is 100% auto, however 10 hours required for testing cycles
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10. UForge Offerings
UForge Enterprise Edition
Data Center or Private cloud factory for large corporations
and cloud providers. On-premise deployment and
maintenance.
• UForge Enterprise Edition
• UForge OEM (white labeling)
• Professional Services
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11. Other UShareSoft Offerings
Professional Services
• Custom Appliance Services
• UForge OS Integration
• Support & Maintenance
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12. UForge Features
Simple Build & Maintenance
● Assemble “à la carte”. Choose from UForge qualified open source
operating systems and projects to assemble your tailored-made
appliances in minutes.
● Flexible Build. Flexible construction including OS package selection,
installation and boot options & software entitlement.
● Appliance Life Cycle management. Create your private software
appliance library. UForge provides version control, automatic update
and appliance cloning.
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13. UForge Features
Full Automation from visual design to image generation
● Optimize software. Automatically reduce your virtual appliance image
size by up to 90% with UForge's one click JeOS feature.
● Generate your appliances in minutes. One click format generation of
your appliance. All the major industry standard formats supported for
physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
● Easy Update & Maintenance. Maintain your appliance with auto update
helping you to reduce software maintenance efforts and release
engineering costs.
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14. UForge Architecture
UForge RIA Client (UShare Builder)
- Built using Adobe AIR
- HTTPS with UForge
HTTPS
UForge
Life cycle Build & Collaboration Admin - Restful Web Service
Web Tier Management Optimisation Services Services JSR-311 Implementation
(Jersey) XML & JSON
- Coming months exposing
Image Update Client API for Web Tier
Image Assembly Tier Grid
Assembly Tools
- Glassfish Application Server
- Hibernate
Database Tier - MySQL Db
Certified Catalogue Appliance Templates - OAR Grid
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15. Open Appliance Studio
Make your software as simple as an iPhone application
● Automate Deployments. Make your software ready-to-run, fully pre-
configured and self-deployable anywhere.
● Plug & Play. Live up to the expectations of a software appliance, easily
install and automatic deploy, while providing the customer the possibility
to customize some of the configuration parameters.
● Virtual Distributed Solution Deployment (vApps). Deploy automatically
a distributed virtualized solution tailored to fit your customers needs.
Control Field Deployments
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16. Creating vApps
with Open Appliance Studio
Simple. Predictable. Consistent.
Automatically Deploying Distributed Solutions on
Physical, Virtual & Cloud Environments
vApps - IT solutions packaged into a single appliance
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17. Bernard Candy - Business Development (bernard.candy@usharesoft.com)
www.usharesoft.com
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18. JeOS Profiling
Just enough OS!
Full Stack with Fedora
Distribution > 4000 packages
Today this is manual
and takes weeks
With UForge
size reduced by 90%
Reasons for JeOS in a few clicks!
>Smaller Footprint
>Better Performance
>More Secure
>Easier to Maintain
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19. Software Appliances Examples
Collaboration Wiki LAMP
Enterprise Content Customer Relationship
Management (ECM) Management (CRM)
Knowledge Base Repository
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