End of Support for IBM WebSphere Application Server v.7 & 8 on April 30th is fast approaching 26 th of April 2018 Host: Lisa Hedlund
Agenda Why migrate What’s new with WAS V.9 including Liberty Application migration tools available from IBM Overview Talos - the middleware configuration management solution from Tech Data Migration in action demo Q&A 2
Talos Overview Easily configure, deploy, manage & migrate middleware Philip Leaper Domain Architect, Tech Data philip.leaper@techdata.com
The current state of the middleware market The worldwide application integration and middleware (AIM) software market continues to grow faster than the overall infrastructure software market Growth in mobile, big data, analytics, in-memory computing, cloud and Internet of Things initiatives is associated with digital business and requires application and integration professionals to invest in new AIM technologies Worldwide Middleware market: $27 billion in 2017, +7% on 2016. Gartner, Inc . “ Established approaches to application infrastructure are too rigid, closed and cumbersome to support many digital business requirements,” said Fabrizio Biscotti, research vice president at Gartner. https://www.smechannels.com/gartner-predicts-middleware-software-market-to-reach-27b-in-2017/ 4
New Software Tooling & the Cloud Docker Hybrid Clouds " Over the next five years, new custom application development will continue to be built on a cloud architecture, and we'll also see an acceleration in the use of containers to migrate existing bespoke applications to the cloud. Migration will inhibit growth ," according to Maureen Fleming, vice president of IDC's Business Process Management and Middleware research DevOps IDC “By 2020 50% of the CIO’s that have not transformed their capabilities will be displaced from the digital leadership team. ” Orchestration Gartner http://www.gartner.com/binaries/content/assets/events/keywords/infrastructure-operations-management/iome5/gartner-predicts-for-it-infrastructure-and-operations.pdf http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US42079317 5
The move to DevOps Some of the stats behind DevOps on the surface seem incredible: • 46x more frequent software deployments than their competitors • 96x faster recovery from failures • 440x faster lead time for changes • Higher levels of customer satisfaction and operational efficiency Regardless of the numbers, the movement to seamless tool chains and continuous development seems inevitable. Stats from Puppet State of DevOpS 2017 6
Describe how Talos forms part of a DevOps toolchain that substantially reduces the complexity of configuring, managing & migrating middleware 7
Common Customer Challenges I want to be able to move I want a quicker How do I migrate to micro- into (or out of) cloud implementation cycle services running on Docker environments and avoid for applications containers? vendor lock in I want to migrate to the cloud I need a single I have too many I’ve already purchased method for multiple highly skilled people orchestration tools, middleware platforms I need to do everything faster focussed on this why do I need this too? My configuration management We have identified I have released code into a different is out of control need to save money environment and it doesn’t work I’m dependant on one script guru, what if he leaves?! 8
Customer Challenges CommonTheme 9
Who Middleware users who want to: • migrate to the cloud or Talos is for • drive better operational control of their estate 10
What A migration and configuration tool which has pre-built interfaces to popular Talos is middleware, container and cloud platforms 11
In contrast to configuration and orchestration How tools such as Puppet and Ansible, Talos provides a comprehensive toolkit that normalises the Talos differs administration of multiple middleware platforms (i.e. one method for all) 12
Enables: Benefit • easy visualisation of compliance • enhances configuration consistency of Talos for you • simplifies setup of migration tasks 13
How Talos fits with modern DevOps Tooling So why do you need Talos? Agile Dev Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Continuous test Environment Version Artefact Configuration Application Build Automated Deployment Control Repository Management Deployment Server Testing Developers 14
Orchestration engine integration 15
Public cloud platform integration 16
Containers migrating to microservices 17
Automatically migrate from monolithic legacy middleware run-times to microservices run-times on containers Containers Automatic template translation from traditional middleware to microservices run-times Build middleware based containers leveraging a migrating to microservices wizard Map Talos templates to both traditional middleware and microservice based containers thereby leveraging a common deployment approach across both estates 18
Middleware platforms supported 19
What if my middleware is not currently supported? If the Middleware platform is unsupported, then we can offer toolkit development – typically an 8 week build cycle (4 Week Beta / 4 Week Production) = 8 weeks 20
Common Customer Challenges I want to be able to move I want a quicker How do I migrate to micro- into (or out of) cloud implementation cycle services running on Docker environments and avoid for applications containers? vendor lock in I want to migrate to the cloud I need a single I have too many I’ve already purchased method for multiple highly skilled people orchestration tools, middleware platforms I need to do everything faster focussed on this why do I need this too? My configuration management We have identified I have released code into a different is out of control need to save money environment and it doesn’t work I’m dependant on one script guru, what if he leaves?! 21
Benefits Prevents cloud “Lock - In” Negates the requirement for producing and maintaining scripts Supports migrations – retaining customer’s investment in current Middleware Middleware can scale without having to scale resources Reduce Risk of losing key people, through capturing Tribal Knowledge Eliminate scripting Move to a DevOps methodology quicker Enables ease of migration to the cloud with Cloud Provider plugins Reduces release and deploy cycles Works with and enhances other DevOps tools you’ve already got Brings consistency to multiple teams (Dev/Ops/geographic) Eradicates the inconsistencies between environments Removes human error Provides a standard normalised platform for multiple Middleware Vendors Enforcing consistent global changes securely while ensuring compliance; data protection and security Manage performance and quality of your outsourced IT / infrastructure provider 22
Case Study #1 International Bank An international organisation that provides offshore banking services to their personal, business, commercial, corporate and financial intermediary customers were facing a predicament in the way they deployed and managed the applications in their IBM WebSphere Application Server environment. After implementing Talos the bank is now able to build environments for IBM WebSphere, read existing IBM WebSphere Cell configurations and deploy applications in existing or new IBM WebSphere Cells from test to production environments Once implemented we compared the time it used to take for build and deploy applications prior to, and post, the installation of Talos. What used to take 40 man hours of build and deploy now takes just two and a half hours, a time saving of 93.75%. 23
Case Study #2 Financial Clearing House A financial organisation was looking to upgrade from WebSphere Application Server 7.0 to WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5. There were 30 WebSphere cells across Development, QA, Staging and Production environments The organisation was keen to use Talos for the ability to migrate and promote configurations, apply and rollback fix-packs, plus it would be set up to compare environment configurations. The customer originally estimated that to do the migration manually using internal consulting services, it would take four months. The project was delivered in four weeks. Leveraging Talos allowed for a 75% reduction in delivery time and 60% savings on the costs as well as providing a solution for ongoing deployment, day-to-day maintenance and promotion after the initial migration. 24
Summary Talos and other DevOps tools – where it fits Orchestration Engines, Cloud & Container integration Middleware platforms Cost, Quality, Speed Case studies – actual benefits proven Talos is a key part of any DevOps toolchain that substantially reduces the complexity of configuring, managing & migrating middleware 25
WAS Version Migration Demo
Q&A Contact: lisa.hedlund@techdata.com 27
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