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Cloud Coalition: Rpath, Newscale, and Eucalyptus Systems Partner On Self-Service Public and Private Cloud

RPath, newScale and Eucalyptus Systems announced an integration oi their nagship products. This "Cloud Coalition" partnership delivers a comprehensive solution for self-service ordering and provisioning of Cloud-based services. The partnership goes beyond a surface integration and includes policv-based conguration and ersion control. Role-based access and go ernance. And ser ice metering.

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Cloud Coalition: Rpath, Newscale, and Eucalyptus Systems Partner On Self-Service Public and Private Cloud

RPath, newScale and Eucalyptus Systems announced an integration oi their nagship products. This "Cloud Coalition" partnership delivers a comprehensive solution for self-service ordering and provisioning of Cloud-based services. The partnership goes beyond a surface integration and includes policv-based conguration and ersion control. Role-based access and go ernance. And ser ice metering.

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IMPACT BRIEF | 1 2010 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | www.enterprisemanagement.

com
Cloud Coalition: rPath, newScale, and
Eucalyptus Systems Partner on Self-Service
Public and Private Cloud
Abstract
In August o 2010. newScale. rPath. and Lucalvptus Svstems announced an integration o their nagship
products. This Cloud Coalition partnership delivers a comprehensive solution for self-service
ordering and provisioning of Cloud-based services. The partnership goes beyond a surface integration
and includes policv-based conguration and ersion control. role-based access and goernance. and
serice metering. Lnterprise Management Associates LMA, sees this announcement as a signicant
step forward in the maturing of the Cloud, and one that empowers IT organizations to more easily take
adantage o the benets o public and priate (loud serices.
Cloud Coalition
On August 24, 2010, three Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
announced a technologv partnership that simplies sel-serice
provisioning and delivery of public and private Cloud applications.
rPath, newScale and Eucalyptus Systems have integrated their
nagship products to seamlesslv delier a worknow-based sel-serice
storeront supported bv conguration templates. policv-based serice
governance and a back-end Cloud fabric.
The Cloud Coalition offers enterprise IT organizations a faster on-
ramp to on-demand IT service delivery. Service options are supported
by role-based access and other policy-based controls. This ensures that each user has access to only
those service options that are appropriate to his/her department, geography and role. It also ensures
compliance and security for workloads deployed in a Cloud environment.
In effect, these capabilities enable IT as a Service (IaaS) by combining self-service, policy-based
governance and orchestration with the back-end Cloud computing platform and automated provisioning.
They also extend the Service Catalog with lifecycle tracking for Virtual Machines (VMs), service usage,
and Cloud instances.
The three companies and their contributions to the Cloud Coalition include:
newScale
newScale delivers a self-service front-end storefront that offers prospective consumers the IT services
aailable to them based on pre-dened policies. Pre-packaged oerings are stored as part o a serice
catalog. with each catalog entrv pointing to corresponding deplovment congurations. Serice catalog
inormation also includes specics such as pricing. tiers o serice and options to deplov to either
private or public Cloud as appropriate.
1he entire svstem is policv-based. enabling each companv to tailor the storeront to specic business
needs. 1his enables precise associations between specic sericesserice leels and departments.
geographies, and user groups. This in turn delivers role-based access control and self-service provisioning
and ensures that prospective users are presented with the right service choices.
rPath, newScale and Eucalyptus
Systems have integrated their
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Throughout the selection and provisioning process, newScale acts as an orchestration engine that
sequences and tracks serice worknows rom start to nish. Once serices are proisioned. newScale
also delivers consumption tracking and usage governance. This provides cross-enterprise visibility to
which users are using which services and how much those services are costing the business.
rPath
While newScale is the storefront and orchestration engine, rPath is the service factory. rPath acts
as a version control repository and deployment platform for automating the creation and update of
software stacks and on-demand generation of images for rapid deployment to any physical, virtual or
(loud target. Specicallv designed or automated and sel-serice proisioning enironments. in the
context of this announcement rPath provides the back-end automation for the storefront.
rPath automates the assembly of new, ready-to-deploy software stacks. The process is based on an
automated build-time dependency discovery that resolves the entire dependency chain. The resulting
inormation is the basis or a detailed model that denes what sotware. policies and congurations
belong on a svstem. 1hese models dene entire application stacks or anv laver o a stack such as OS
or middleware). Each model is version controlled to ensure consistency over time.
These models act as blueprints of the systems and system
congurations representing a complete business serice. 1he
blueprints describe every piece of software and the relationships
among software components. Policy enforcement associates policies
with serices and goerns the specications and relationships among
the technology elements.
Once rPath has modeled each service, it makes it available as a
standardized and reusable component within the newScale catalog.
The models can then be used to automate provisioning of similar
services across development, test, and/or production environments,
generating new images on-demand or incremental updates to deployed
systems.
Eucalyptus Systems
Eucalyptus Systems provides the Cloud fabric or private Cloud platform. Eucalyptus is an open-
source software platform that implements IaaS-style Cloud computing using the existing Linux-based
infrastructure found in many of todays data centers.
Commercialized in 2009, the company supports both an open-source edition and a commercial grade
Enterprise Edition. It is interface-compatible with Amazons Amazon Web Service (AWS), making
it possible to move workloads between AWS and the data center without modifying the code that
implements them. Eucalyptus also works with most of the currently available Linux distributions
including Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux (RHEL and CentOS), Suse Linux (SLES and OpenSUSE) and
Debian. Eucalyptus can use a variety of virtualization technologies including VMware, Xen, and KVM
to implement the Cloud abstractions it supports.
Eucalyptus is important for two reasons:
It is available as open-source and has been architected to be compatible with a wide variety of
commonly-installed data center technologies. Because of these factors, it provides an easy and
low-risk way to build private (i.e., on-premise or internal) Clouds.
It was designed from the start to be a Cloud platform, not a re-factored implementation of
previously available technology.

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Eucalyptus is able to deliver scalable Cloud implementations very similar to those provided by
Amazons AWS. Data center operators choosing Eucalyptus can be assured of compatibility with the
emerging application development and operational Cloud ecosystem, while attaining the security and
IT investment amortization levels they require.
In summary, rPath enables the management of blueprints describing the resources necessary to support
a given application, newScale deploys and governs, and Eucalyptus delivers the fabric upon which the
application is deployed.
Value Proposition
Cloud computing is a megatrend that is shaping the future of IT. Its impact on business is similar to
that of the Internet ten years ago. It is forcing companies to reevaluate their approach to delivering IT
serices. to stang and budgeting. and to application goernance and management.
EMA has conducted extensive research on the topic and published a major paper covering Cloud
deployment, management, security, and best practices in early 2010.
1
That research found that the top
three drivers for Cloud include:
Reduction in IT operational costs
Improved IT service quality
Reduction in IT capital costs
It also reealed that taking adantage o these benets requires a degree o I1 maturitv that manv
organizations lack. 1he same organizational characteristics that enabled companies to benet rom
other disruptive technologies, such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), also enable them to take
advantage of the Cloud. Cross-silo processes, use of automation, and high levels of expertise all play
a part, and more mature IT teams tend to deliver higher levels of business value than those that are
less mature.
The research also reveals that companies prefer private Cloud to public Cloud by a wide margin.
Seentv e percent either hae deploved or plan to deplov priate (loud. while onlv 31 aor
public Cloud. One reason for this preference is that they see private Cloud as being more secure.
Another is that most companies today already have extensive investments in on-premise hardware and
software. As part of a comprehensive private Cloud strategy, todays
production-grade virtualization platforms such as VMware ESX help
companies maximize these investments.
That being said, there are also factors hampering Cloud adoption.
Companies still lack expertise in managing and governing virtualized
environments and VM sprawl remains a problem. In addition,
until recently moving to the Cloud required that IT organizations do
much of the hands-on work required to deploy Cloud-based services and integrate them with existing
solutions. It is only in the past 6-12 months that Cloud vendors have started making these tasks simpler
bv deliering ull-nedged serices ersus simple technologv. 1he (loud (oalition outlined in this brie
is an example of this maturing of the Cloud process.
1 The Responsible Cloud, EMA Research Report, available at
http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/research/asset.php?id=1652

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EMA Perspective
All three of these vendors have seasoned products that have been available for several years. The
problem was that only the most astute IT organizations were capable of connecting the dots in a way
that these three vendors have. With this announcement, rPath, newScale, and Eucalyptus Systems have
connected the dots for them, and the result is a very nice set of capabilities that can accelerate Cloud
adoption for virtually any company.
While this paper has focused primarily on private Cloud, this same
partnership enables public Cloud adoption as well. The choice of
public versus Cloud platforms can be built into a system via policy,
enabling the same platorm conguration to be deliered and priced
based on either public or private options.
This announcement also has implications for companies that are
trying to break down barriers between application development and
I1 operations. One o the main benets o this coalition is agilitv.
helping multiple departments within IT to accelerate testing and
deployment of new business applications. For example, while its nice to have a process for requesting
a new Quality Assurance (QA) testing platform, its even better to be able to request it via a self-service
storefrontand have it provisioned while you wait. This is what the Cloud Coalition has delivered,
and LMA beliees it is a signicant step orward in turning potential (loud consumers into seasoned
Cloud users.
According to the old saying, You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink, the Cloud
Coalition has delivered the water. Even companies that have been leery of the Cloud in the past now
have access to a fully-formed Cloud deployment platformall thats left is for them to drink.
About EMA
Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst frm that provides deep insight across the full spectrum
of T and data management technologies. EMA analysts leverage a unique combination of practical experience, insight into industry best
practices, and in-depth knowledge of current and planned vendor solutions to help its clients achieve their goals. Learn more about EMA research,
analysis, and consulting services for enterprise T professionals, lines of business users, and T vendors at www.enterprisemanagement.com or
follow EMA on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ema_research). 2162.091610
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