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VMware CloudApplication PlatormModernize Todays Apps.

Build or Tomorrows.


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Competitive organizations demand that IT leaders increase the velocity o new

application development. By improving time to market, enterprises can more

eectively address competitive threats, accelerate success in new business

opportunities and meet business objectives. Business applications are central

to many strategic initiatives. Thereore, it is imperative or IT to simpliy the

development, delivery and management o new customer-acing and internal

applications while ensuring that they meet evolving business requirements.

Yet delivering increasingly sophisticated unctionality in shorter development

cycles is dicult or teams relying on heavyweight application development

and runtime environments that predate the cloud computing era. For example,

development teams are challenged to leverage ull-stack Java Platorm,

Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application servers. According to Gartner, a drastic

application overhaul is required to eliminate redundancy, standardize business

processes, consolidate solutions and establish platorms or tomorrows agile

and growing business environment.1

For IT leaders looking to transorm the application liecycle, VMware provides a

customer-proven cloud application platorm or modernizing legacy applications

and accelerating new, modern application development and delivery. VMware

enables enterprises to ollow a pragmatic path that increases agility while reducing

the complexity and operational costs o application development and delivery.

Modernize Applications.

Todays IT organizations are aware that modern applications are dramatically

dierent rom prior generations and increasingly:

Web-oriented Users expect access to applications and data rom a variety o

sources, on a variety o devicesanytime, anywhere. This requires enterprises

to provide Web-based access rom desktop computers and mobile devices.

Dynamic To handle predictable and sudden unpredictable spikes in trac,

businesses must deploy inrastructure that easily scales applications, pools

resources, and quickly and automatically adjusts capacityadding it and

releasing it, as needed. Businesses must also be able to easily recongureapplication architecture to ensure greater application speed or reliability.

Real-time Business and government leaders want to make decisions based

on real-time situational awareness. Whether the goal is to improve customer

satisaction, create competitive advantage or identiy potential threats, they

cannot aord to act on outdated inormation.

Drive Application Velocity.

Transorm Your Business.


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Data-intensive The volume o

data fowing through businesses is

predicted to grow by 5060

percent a year.2

Managing thisgrowth using a traditional relational

database approach is costly

because these systems are unable

to scale horizontally. Organizations

want access to real-time data

delivered more cost-eciently and

systems that can scale elastically

as demand requires.

Virtualized By enabling aster

provisioning, virtualization allows

enterprises to simpliy application

delivery and urther reduce time to

market or new applications.

Modern applications will likely be

deployed on virtual inrastructure

or within private, public or hybrid

clouds. Organizations must

consider how to ensure that these

applications are portable so that

they can run in the most

appropriate environment or

business needs.

Develop and Deploy Modern

Applications with VMware.

IT organizations need a new

approach to application development

and deployment to accommodate

these modern application

characteristics. They need a new

model conceived and designed with

the cloud in mind. As the global

leader in virtualization and cloud

inrastructure, VMware delivers it.

The VMware vFabric Cloud

Application Platorm is engineered

to enable IT to eciently build, run

and scale modern, data-intensive

applications and deploy them inprivate, public or enterprise hybrid

clouds. The vFabric platorm

improves application delivery by

intelligently leveraging underlying

inrastructure or the highest

application perormance, quality o

service and resource utilization.

Figure 1: VMware Cloud Application Platform solutions support the complete cloud

application lifecycle.

VMware Solutions Enhance Application Development, Delivery and Management

IT is undergoing a transormation:

Applications are changing,

inrastructure is changing,

and organizations are looking

or a pathway to harness the

promise o the cloud. Application

platorms o today have

markedly dierent requirements

than those we have relied upon

in the past. VMware vFabric is

evolving to meet the needs o

todays organizations.3

Rachel Chalmers

Director, Inrastructure,The 451 Group


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Reduce Development Complexity.Modernize Your Applications.

The typical IT organization has

become relentlessly tactical in nature,

driven by short-term imperatives,

reports Gartner. The result is an

application portolio that is aging,

expensive and infexible.4 VMware

solutions accelerate application

modernization by reducing

development complexity. At the same

time, they dramatically lower costs

and enable a fexible application

deployment model that bettersupports users and business needs.

Increase Developer Productivity with

a Proven Application Framework.

IT organizations have embraced the

Spring development ramework to

deliver high-quality, modern enterprise

and Web applications. More than three

million developers use Springnow

the most popular Java development

ramework in the world.

Unlike legacy Java EE platorms,

Spring speeds the creation o

enterprise, Web and integration

applications. The core values o

Spring include increasing developer

productivity, and ensuring

application portability and quality.

These capabilities have made Spring

the de acto standard or developing

enterprise Java applications

or banks, governments and

e-commerce, as well as or packaged

independent sotware vendors (ISVs).

The application development

ramework o choice or 83

percent o organizations with large

development teams,5 the open

source Spring ramework delivers

dramatic advantages in every phase

o the application liecycle.

Spring signicantly reduces the

amount o coding required, ensures

high reusability o code, supports

application portability and simplies

application testing. A recent study

shows that Spring accelerates overall

development by more than 50

percent compared with traditional

approaches, greatly speeding time to

market or new applications.6

For enterprises modernizingapplications and moving to the cloud,

vFabric with Spring provides the

best path orward or developing

mobile and social applications in a

ramework already amiliar to millions

o developers. New capabilities in

Spring Mobile, Spring Android and

Spring Social equip applications

with the latest eatures to run on

the newest generation o end-user

devices. Spring Data Access adds

the capability to interact with

non-relational data sources such

as key-value, graph and document

data stores, as well as distributed

data caches.

Gain Deployment Efciency and

Productivity with vFabric.

When it comes to application

deployment, platorm consistency

can be a major challenge or

enterprise development teams. For

example, a production environment

might run on legacy Java EEapplication servers, but developers

still choose to build and test

applications using a lightweight

application server. The vFabric

platorm includes an enterprise

version o Apache Tomcata popular,

lightweight application server

that runs in production at some o

Telecom Italia

Using Spring, our

development time,

debugging and testing is

reduced by 30 percent.

This is a critical advantage

because o our tight

deadlines or prototype

delivery.7

Marco Ughetti

Senior Sotware Architect in

the Inormation Technology

Innovation Group,

Telecom Italia


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the largest global organizations.

vFabric leverages Tomcat at its core

to simply and uniy development,

testing and production environments,

decreasing the cost o updates.

The fexible solution also ensures

consistent management.

Reduce Costs with Lightweight

Runtime Services.

Lightweight runtime environments

such as vFabric typically cost

enterprises 6070 percent less

than legacy solutions.8 They also

enable greater application server

consolidation ratiosat least two

times greaterwhen deployed on

VMware virtualized environments.9

Purpose-built to support applications

developed with modern rameworks

such as Spring, vFabric provides

superior scalability, perormance,

management and system utilization.

Unlike traditional Java EE servers

with large disk and memory

ootprints, the vFabric platorms

lean architecture maximizes disk,

memory and CPU resources. When

deployed with VMware vSphere

the industrys leading virtualization

platorm used to optimize underlying

computing inrastructuresthe

tightly integrated solution ensures

that applications deliver unmatched

deployment automation and sel-

service provisioning.

Figure 2: vFabric provides infrastructure consistency from development to quality assurance (QA)

to choice of production locations.

vFabric Speeds Application Development and DeliveryLinkedIn

Spring is nonintrusive,

allowing LinkedIn developers

to concentrate on businesslogic and code, without

having to worry as much

about the inrastructure.10

Yan Pujante

Distinguished Sotware Engineer

and Member o the Founding Team,

LinkedIn Corporation


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Data in the enterprise is growing

exponentially year ater year. To

harness its value, businesses are

seeking better ways to achieve elastic

scale. They also want to simpliy

database provisioning and enorce

governance to improve security

and eliminate database sprawl.

Meanwhile, real-time access to data

is now a business imperative.

With most enterprise data storedin monolithic relational database

management systems (RDBMSs),

businesses are being orced to scale

their databases vertically by adding

larger machines in big quantities to

handle the current explosion o data.

However, this has increased license

costs and management overhead.

Todays enterprises want to scale

systems both incrementallyby

leveraging commoditized x86

hardwareand dynamically, up and

down, in response to variable data-

consumption demands. Yet their

RDBMSs are incapable o partitioning

data; nor are they optimized or

virtual or cloud environments.

The latency issues associated with

traditional RDBMS queriescoupled

with the challenge o working with

outdated inormationsubject

enterprises to undetected risk and

missed revenue opportunities. For

example, a less than optimal userexperience with a travel Web site

would likely result in a lost sale. Now

imagine hundreds o lost salesall

because o slow page rereshes and

outdated booking inormation.

IT teams must enable the regional

and global distribution o very

dynamic data. In business and

government, the need has never been

greater or IT to provide decision

makers with a single, consistent view

o data that is constantly changing.

With data rapidly crossing borders,

signicant events must be detected

so that the necessary systems

are updated and the appropriate

personnel are alerted.

Speed Data Delivery.

As IT leaders look or ways to

mitigate data latency issues and

achieve real-time data capabilities,

they are rethinking their database-

centric architectures. To support

cloud applications and to improve

scalability and perormance while

reducing costs, many are moving

rom RDBMSs designed decades

ago to non-traditional databases.

vFabric improves high-perormance

data management by delivering

in-memory speed and dynamic

scalability with the reliability, security

and data management capabilities o

a traditional database.

Gain Elastic Scale and High-

Perormance Data with VMware.

Memory-based database technology

which can complement or replace

existing database inrastructurehas

emerged as the approach o choice

or global data grids and cloud data

management. By managing datain-memory, vFabric is designed to

handle exponential data growth and

real-time data access and processing.

It allows data to sleep in the database

but to live in the data abric, so

that data is always accessible and

up to date.

Take a Modern Approach to Data.Enable Real-Time Decisions.

bet365.com

GemFire technology had the

scale, fexibility and reliability

to make our systems ourstrength.11

Martin Davies

Chie Technology Ocer,

bet365.com


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With its built-in, distributed data

management platorm, vFabric

provides dynamic scalability, high

perormance and database-like

persistence. It blends advanced

techniques such as replication,

partitioning, data-aware routing

and continuous querying to help

enterprises achieve unparalleled

perormance. It also includes

database-class reliability and improves

operational eciency with non-

disruptive up-and-down scalability.

Power Database as a Service

or the Cloud.

Frustrating to both developmentteams and database administrators

(DBAs), the cumbersome database

provisioning process has led

to unprecedented database

sprawl. vFabric oers just-in-time

provisioning o ully congured

databases in minutes. Included are

built-in, automated policies to enable,

monitor and test database backup

and recovery, saving DBAs time and

enhancing business agility. vFabric

increases developer productivity

by allowing a developer to use a

sel-service portal to get a clone

up and ready in minutesrather

than daysregardless o database

size. A series o vSphere optimized

databases, beginning with the

popular PostgreSQL, will allow ITteams to take advantage o virtual

and cloud evironments.

Figure 3: vFabric delivers in-memory speed and elastic scalability with the reliability, security

and data management capabilities of a traditional database.

VMware Delivers a Modern Approach to Data Management


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VMware enables the delivery o

enterprise private clouds, and it

partners with more than 3,500 service

providers to deliver compatible public

cloud inrastructures. The vFabric

Cloud Application Platorm provides a

pragmatic path to a seamless, dynamic

operating environment through a

common runtime environment and

common management services

between clouds.

To provide maximum fexibility or IT

teams to deploy applications onsite

or osite, VMware has established

strategic relationships with leading

service providers including Bluelock,

Colt, Terremark, SingTel, CSC and

Verizon. These partnerships deliver

application portability and enable

developers to quickly and easily

deploy Spring applications on their

choice o public cloud platorms

powered by these VMware vCloud

Datacenter service providers.

Developers can dynamically move

Spring applications, as needed,

between a private cloud environment

and VMware enabled clouds hosted

by vCloud providers. In act, all ve

cloud service providers placed in the

leaders quadrant in the most recent

Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant or

Cloud Inrastructure as a Service and

Web Hosting12 are partially or wholly

VMware based.

This integrated approach bridges

private cloud application services

with available public cloud services,

enabling enterprises to achieve the

ull fexibility and benets o cloud

computing. The result is a hybrid

clouda model that oers the best o

both worlds at the lowest total cost,

without compromise.

Hybrid clouds enable lower IT

spend through virtualization andconsolidation, optimized workload

sourcing, optimized provisioning, and

higher productivity in application

development and maintenance.

According to recent VMware

and EMC research, hybrid cloud

deployment would typically reduce

total IT spend by approximately

2030 percent.13

Experience Freedom o Choice.Deliver Portability Between Clouds.

CSC

The development

community has chosen

the Spring Framework or

the development o Java

applications due to the core

tenets o productivity and

application portability. As

organizations move business

processes to the cloud, they

identiy ideal workloads to

transorm, and we are giving

them a simple, secure and

managed inrastructure

upon which to run those

applications, on a platorm

that is optimized or Spring

applications.14

Siki Giunta

Vice President Cloud Computing

and Hosting Services,

CSC


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Meet Your Business Needs.Let Licenses Match Your Use.

VMware understands how important

it is or businesses to rapidly and

cost-eectively respond to changing

requirements. Whether your

enterprise needs to meet seasonal

demands or react to a specic

market, customer or competitive

development, VMware oers the

right vFabric sotware conguration,

at the right price.

The unique vFabric licensing andpricing model allows enterprises to

purchase application inrastructure

sotware based on virtual machines

rather than physical CPUsand to

pay only or the licenses in use. This

model eliminates the decades-old

need or organizations to purchase

excess sotware in anticipation o

peak loads, incurring signicant costs

and allowing sotware licenses to sit

dormant outside o peak periods.

The model closely aligns with cloud

computing deployments that directly

link the cost o sotware to use,consumption and the value delivered

to the organization.

Figure 4: The vFabric licensing and pricing model enables enterprises to purchase application

infrastructure software based on virtual machines and to pay only for the licenses in use.

vFabric Includes Unique Licensing and Pricing Model

With Java EE being a major

platorm on enterprise, a good

PaaS platorm like vFabric is

very exciting. This gives a lot

o choices or existing JavaEE-based applications to move to

the cloud.15

Cloud Computing Journal

March 20, 2011


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Todays applications are increasinglydeployed to pools o virtual

inrastructurenot physical

machinesmaking the legacy

approach o licensing application

inrastructure based on physical CPUs

decreasingly relevant. On virtualized

inrastructure, an application may be

running on a server with our CPUs

at 9 a.m., but when employees log

on during their lunch hour at noon,

the application will be automatically

moved to a server with 16 CPUs.

With vFabric virtual machine-based

licensing, enterprises simply license

the number o virtual machines to

run vFabric components, as needed.

Additionally, licensing is based

on average use, rather than peak,

which allows or predicted andunpredicted usage spikes without

requiring enterprises to license

based on the high-water mark o an

application workload. For example,

i an enterprise licenses 10 vFabric

virtual machines, it can burst to use

signicantly more virtual machines

than 10 as long as over a 12-month

period, the average usage is 10 or

ewer virtual machines.

Only VMware allows vFabric license

reuse across dierent types oserversto support application

inrastructure reconguration oten

resulting rom time-to-market

pressures that require releasing

applications early and oten.

vFabric Enables Deployment Flexibility and Speeds Time to Market

Figure 5: Only VMware allows vFabric license reuse across dierent types of servers in support

of enterprises that need to recongure their application infrastructure.

The VMware vFabric licensing

model is per VM (virtual

machine), and is based on

average VM usage during a

twelve month period rather thanthe high water-mark, allowing an

option or bursting during peak

periods.16

InfoQ

June 14, 2011


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Explore Cloud Development.Try Cloud Foundry.

For enterprises well into their journey

o application modernization and

high-perormance data management,

VMware oers Cloud Foundry. Cloud

Foundry is the open Platorm as a

Service (PaaS) project initiated and

managed by VMware. It supports

multiple rameworks, cloud providers

and application servicesall on a

cloud-scale platorm.

The perect complement to internalvFabric deployments, Cloud Foundry

streamlines the development,

delivery and operation o modern

applications. It signicantly enhances

developers ability to deploy, run

and scale their applications in cloud

environments while embracing the

widest choice o public and private

clouds, industry-standard high

productivity developer rameworks,

and application inrastructure

services.

Traditional application deployments

require developers to congure

and patch systems, maintain

middleware and worry about network

topologies. Cloud Foundry enables

developers to ocus their attention

on applicationsnot machines or

middlewareand deploy and scale

applications in seconds.

Cloud Foundry supports MongoDB,

MySQL, Redis and RabbitMQ today,

with additional services being

continually added. A ull catalog

o current and uture services is

available at www.cloudoundry.com.

Figure 6: Cloud Foundry is the industrys rst open PaaS.

VMware Supports Freedom o Choice

Cloud Foundry streamlines

the development, delivery

and operations o modern

applications, signicantly

enhancing the ability odevelopers to deploy, run and

scale their applications in

cloud environments while

embracing the widest range

o public and private clouds,

high productivity developer

languages and rameworks and

application services.17

eWeek

April 12, 2011


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Enable Your Cloud.Team with VMware.

Cloud computing is transorming

application development. It is helping

enterprises create competitive

advantage through improved

response to increasing business

demands. Virtualizationthe

undamental technology enabling

cloud computingprovides the critical

rst step in transitioning application

development and delivery to this new

model. More than 250,000 customers

rely on VMware virtualization andcloud inrastructure solutions to

reduce capital and operating costs,

and to increase business agility while

preserving reedom o choice.

As enterprises move to the cloud, they

are choosing the vFabric platorm

to eectively transition their legacy

applicationsand to architect new

cloud-ready applications more

eciently to realize the ull benets

o IT as a Service. With vFabric,

organizations are increasing the

reliability, availability and scalability

o applications and enhancing

application portability between their

private clouds and VMware enabled

public clouds. They are also improving

application perormance through

advanced management, monitoring

and optimization.

VMware cloud application platorm

solutions allow your enterprise to

increase the velocity o new application

development and transorm your

legacy application portolio. The

VMware approach preserves your

existing investments and supportsyour unique business requirements.

With VMware, you can enable the

most important cloudyour cloud

accelerating IT and the value your

development organization provides

to your business.

Your Cloud.

Modernize Todays Apps.

Build or Tomorrows.

vFABRIC BENEFITS

Build modern, Web and

enterprise applications inless than half the time of

traditional approaches.18

Deliver cloud-ready

applications that are

optimized to run on virtual

and cloud infrastructure.

Enhance application

portability between public

and private clouds.

Overcome relational

database bottlenecks and

enable real-time data.

Increase the reliability,availability and scalability

of applications.


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vFABRIC SOLUTIONS

VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform solutions include:

Spring- The most popular Java development framework in the world.vFabric Web Server - A high performance, scalable and secure Apache

HTTP server.

vFabric tc Server - An enterprise version of Apache Tomcat optimized for Spring

and vSphere.

vFabric RabbitMQ - The leading open source implementation of the Advanced

Message Queuing Protocol, it enables a cloud ready approach to messaging.

vFabric SQLFire - An in-memory SQL data solution with horizontal scale and

lightning-fast performance.

vFabric GemFire- Fast, secure, reliable and scalable access to data in support ofmodern enterprise and cloud applications.

vFabric Data Director- Powers Database as a Service (DBaaS) by securely automatingroutine tasks, including database provisioning, backup and cloning.

vFabric Postgres - A vSphere optimized ACID and ANSI-SQL relational database, it is the

frst o a broad range o commercial and open source databases to be supported by

vFabric Data Director.

vFabric Hyperic - Proactive performance management of custom applications

through transparent visibility into modern applications deployed across

physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Cloud Foundry - The industrys rst open Platform as a Service (PaaS).


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