1. The Appliance Factory Company
Simplifying Software Delivery
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2. Cloud Computing
IT On-Demand - Self Service
Pay Per Use Cost
Flexibility
Elastic & Scalable
Applications & Software
Available On-Demand
+ Infrastructure
Available On-Demand
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Migrate Application to Cloud Infrastructure
Build Application To Any Cloud Billing
Federate Ecosystem Management
Orchestration
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3. Next Generation Cloud Services
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4. Cloud Image Creation
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5. Base vs Baked Images
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6. Base Image Challenges
• Multiple hypervisors and image formats (Xen, ESXi, KVM,
Raw, VHD, QCOW2, AMI, Hyper-V, EMI, OVF...)
• Multiple Operating Systems and architectures
• Multiple Cloud Environments (upload and registration)
• Adding OS updates to the base images
• Do more with less – automation and industrialization required
• Make the appliances easy to consume for other (less technical
users)
Software Governance & Traceability
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7. Controlling the Template
Transparent Templates vs Opaque Images
Easily update and maintain On-Demand To Any Cloud
Software Governance Using Your Credentials
Clone and Extend
Industrialization and Automation
Template Factories Now on the Market
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8. UShareSoft UForge
Modeling and Generation of Virtual & Cloud Images
OS Agnostic
Cloud Platform Agnostic
Automation and Industrialization of Image Templates
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9. UShareSoft UForge
Build Your Cloud App Store
Customer & Partner Build to Order Templates
Advanced Image Building Services for Stack Designers
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10. Templates -> Cloud
Account Integration
Generation of Compatible Templates
Direct Publish to Cloud Platform
Reducing Template Creation by x10
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11. UShareSoft UForge
Create, Generate & Publish OS Package Update tracking on Template
Administration and Monitoring Advanced Installation Capabilities
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12. Multi-Node Appliances (vApps)
“Self-Configurable Solutions”
Simple. Predictable. Consistent.
Automatically Deploy Distributed Solutions on
Physical, Virtual & Cloud Environments
Providing multiple blueprints
Last-Mile Configuration allowing
end-user parameters to be injected
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13. Open Appliance Studio
“Self-Configurable Solutions”
Framework Providing Self-Service Multi-Tier VM Solutions:
● Distribution and Synchronization for last-mile configuration
● Framework for developing a Deployment Wizard to guide the user through the
configuration
● Multiple offerings or blueprints in the same deployment wizard
● Last-mile user parameters used by the end user
● Embedded in the image or provided by DevOps platform
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14. Demo – Multi-Tier BI Appliance
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15. “Cloud in a Box”
Automatically Configure a Complete Cloud in Less Than 2 Hours
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16. Thank you for your
time
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www.usharesoft.com
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