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The retailer cloud journey: An incremental climb

As a Cloud Advisor who supports several retail clients, it’s impressive to see a company mature in its cloud adoption and realize true value in its business transformation.
One such story is of a major U.S. retailer’s journey to cloud. It’s a story that’s still being written.  But how did this story begin?
It started with the retailer’s vision for rapid retail innovation with lower IT costs. The company was looking to support a more customer-focused infrastructure, enabled for faster design and larger scale experimentation of its digital initiatives.
The retailer required a solution that struck an optimal balance between performance, customer service, cost management and self-service automation and converged on a continuously available architecture on IBM Cloud.
Here’s a breakdown of the details:
Continuous availability
The basic technical concept that enables continuous availability is the capacity to run a service from multiple, geo-dispersed “clouds” in parallel. Each cloud is capable of running the business service independently of its peers, yet replicates state and persistent data to its peer clouds. This requires uniform, reliable and performant network access to replicate state and persistent data.
IBM Cloud delivers on both promises providing global high-performance #cloud computing infrastructure capable of supporting applications at “internet scale.” Further, SoftLayer’s standardized data center and pod design provide modular hardware configurations. Global, unmetered, network-private backbone access facilitates data replication across these geo-dispersed clouds.
Self-service automation
With the architecture proved in all seasons of the retail business cycle, the focus of the retailer is on the road to self-service automation and learning from initial deployments. SoftLayer was built with automation in sight. Everything in the platform — including the provisioning and de-provisioning of services, logging, billing and alerts — is automated and controlled by the Infrastructure Management System (IMS). Each function provided in the IMS is available via APIs supporting the company’s goals for full-stack automation.
With cost efficiencies derived from cloud behind them, the retailer continues to mature into an environment for innovation and business value.
Teams defined their principles based on deep-rooted cultural values. Keeping the focus on customer centricity translates into ensuring each design element and each realized feature benefits the customer. Realizing the benefits derived through automation, application development teams focused on reducing the length of the development cycle. This approach  has served well for years in the retailer’s  product development teams. It allows the application development teams to rapid test, experiment and learn quickly.
Interested? Want to know how to get started? This process is well aligned with the IBM Garage method, combining industry best practices for design thinking, lean startup, agile development, DevOps, and cloud to build and deliver innovative solutions.
This major retailer’s cloud transformation story is still being written and IBM is proud to be its partner along this journey.  We continue to actively partner on this journey, bringing clarity to how IBM and industry cloud practices and technologies can help achieve business objectives.
An Elite Cloud Advisor, Jyoti Chawla specializes in developing enterprise transformation strategies and architecture for global enterprises to transform to Cloud and emerging technologies. Follow Jyoti on Twitter and Linkedin.
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Travel and transportation in the cloud cognitive era

In my capacity as a Cloud Advisor, I’ve had several discussions with clients in the travel and transportation (T&T) industry over the past 18 months.
During one initial discussion with a large airline, the client’s enterprise architect posed a targeted question to the IBM team: “What are the industry disruptors and what can we do as an organization to put us in an industry-leading position?”
I answered the question by saying how a cloud strategy should encompass speed to market, agility and the need to be innovative. I discussed our open by design strategy, industry best practices and industry expertise. I talked about our agnostic approach to partner with them in developing a cloud strategy. In essence, I was saying, “We will partner with you to be that trusted advisor as you start your cloud transformation journey.”
I continue to meet with large airline carriers in the T&T industry. Most are looking to develop a transformational cloud strategy that differentiates them from their competitors. These changes impact all levels of IT organizations as they struggle to keep pace with the changing needs of the business while maintaining IT operational demands amid continually shrinking IT budgets. With the perpetual progression of technology and consumer expectations, IT organizations need agility and speed to keep pace with industry disruptors.
Industrial hybrid cloud
With increasing pressure from the business, IT organizations are retooling to operate in two modes: a traditional delivery model and an agile delivery model for speed and agility. Cloud facilitates the ability for organizations to operate in a bimodal environment by consuming infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud capabilities. This enables organizations to build industrial hybrid cloud solutions to adjust to the changing demands of the business.
Cloud transformation is impacting more than just IT. To be successful, a cloud transformation strategy must change all parts of the organization from IT, marketing, to HR and the customer. This journey will change the way things are done across the enterprise. Organizations will work to introduce disruptive technologies as part of their strategic direction to stay competitive..
What cloud advisors do
We work very closely with account teams to partner with clients and socialize the IBM hybrid cloud and DevOps strategies that align with the client’s long-term strategic initiatives.
We continuously work with clients using both “top-down” and “bottom-up” cloud transformation strategy approaches. This allows IBM to partner with clients at all levels of the organization to develop a cloud strategy designed to addresses the ever-changing, accelerated delivery needs of the organizational leadership team, while creating a grassroots environment that fosters innovation, speed and agility at the team level throughout the enterprise.
As technology continues to evolve and the demands of business increase, companies experiencing the T&T technology renaissance will continue to leverage cloud technologies as an essential part of their overall enterprise strategies in an industry where consumer demand continues to drive innovation.
See how an IBM Cloud Advisor can help your organization.
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CloudForms as a Container

The CloudForms 4.1 release (June ’16) delivered a new format for the CloudForms appliance: as a container in docker format. CloudForms has led the way by offering the appliance in several different virtualization and cloud formats, such as:

Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft SCVMM (Hyper-v)
VMware vSphere

With the new CloudForms container you can now host CloudForms on:

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3
Red Hat Atomic Host (7.2 or higher)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2 or higher)
Anywhere using docker

This is really ground breaking for a cloud management platform, as Container technology brings additional levels of portability, scalability and security.
Another great benefit is the simplicity to instantiate the container.
NOTE: Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 availability as a container image is currently a TECHNICAL PREVIEW, therefore is UNSUPPORTED for production use. See Technology Preview Features Support Scope for more information. You can obtain the Red Hat CloudForms container image from https://registry.access.redhat.com.
Here are the various ways you can instantiate CloudForms across the different container platforms available.
Red Hat Atomic Host

Install Red Hat Atomic Host.
Log in via SSH to your Atomic Host.
Download the CloudForms container:

# atomic install cloudforms/cfme4:latest

Run the CloudForms container:

# atomic run cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Alternatively you can also use the docker command to run the CloudForms container:
# docker run –privileged -di -p 80:80 -p 443:443 cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
Log in via SSH to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
Register your system with Red Hat:

# subscription-manager register –username=<rhnuser> –password=<pwd>
# subscription-manager list –available
# subscription-manager attach –pool=<pool_id>
# subscription-manager repos –enable=rhel-7-server-extras-rpms
# subscription-manager repos –enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

Install docker and needed dependencies:

# yum install docker device-mapper-libs device-mapper-event-libs

Start the docker service:

# systemctl start docker.service

Enable the docker service:

# systemctl enable docker.service

Run the CloudForms container:

# docker run –privileged -di -p 80:80 -p 443:443 cloudforms/cfme4:latest

Login using a browser to http://<hostname>

Anywhere with docker

Install docker.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/docker and amend the Red Hat registry to the ADD_REGISTRY key:

ADD_REGISTRY=’–add-registry registry.access.redhat.com’

Restart the docker service.
Execute the following command:

# docker run –privileged -di -p 80:80 -p 443:443 cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Lastly&#8230;.SSH Access
Execute the following command to obtain a bash prompt on the CloudForms container to do things like import items or view log files:
# sudo docker exec -i -t <container ID/name> /bin/bash
You will be given access under /var/www/miq/vmdb path.
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Red Hat Confirms Over 40+ Accepted Sessions at OpenStack Summit Barcelona

This Fall&#8217;s 2016 OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, Spain will be an exciting event. After a challenging issue with the voting system this time around (somehow prevented direct URLs to each session), the Foundation has posted the final session agenda, detailing the entire week&8217;s schedule of sessions and events. Once again, I am excited to see that based on community voting, Red Hat will be sharing over 40 sessions of technology overview and deep dives around OpenStack services for containers, storage, networking, compute, network functions virtualization (NFV), and much more. 
Red Hat is a Premiere sponsor in Barcelona this Fall and we are looking forward to sharing all of our general sessions, workshops, and full-day breakout track. To learn more about Red Hat&8217;s accepted sessions, have a look at the details below. Be sure to visit us at each session you can make, come by our booth in the Marketplace, which starts on Monday evening during the booth crawl, 6-7:30pm, or be sure to contact your Red Hat sales representative to meet with any of our executives, engineering, or product leaders face-to-face while in Barcelona. Either way, we look forward to seeing you all again in Spain in October! 
For more details on each session, click on the title below:

Tuesday October 25th
General sessions

Deploying and Operating a Production Application Cloud with OpenStack
 Chris Wright, Pere Monclus (PLUMgrid), Sandra O&8217;Boyle (Heavy Reading), Marcel Haerry (Swisscom)
11:25am-12:05pm

Delivering Composable NFV Services for Business, Residential & Mobile Edge
 Azhar Sayeed, Sharad Ashlawat (PLUMgrid)
12:15pm-12:55pm

I found a security bug, what happen&8217;s next?
 Tristan de Cacqueray and Matthew Booth
2:15pm-2:55pm

Failed OpenStack Update?! Now What?
 Roger lopez
2:15pm-2:55pm

OpenStack Scale and Performance Testing with Browbeat
Will Foster, Sai Sindhur Malleni, Alex Krzos
2:15pm-2:55pm

OpenStack and the Orchestration Options for Telecom / NFV
Chris Wright, Tobias Ford (AT&T), Hui Deng (China Mobile), Diego Lopez Garcia (Telefonica)
3:05pm-3:45pm

How to Work Upstream with OpenStack
Julien Danjou, Ashiq Khan (NTT), Ryota Mibu (NEC)
3:05pm-3:45pm

Live From Oslo
Kenneth Giusti, Joshua Harlow (Go Daddy), Oleksii Zamiatin (Mirantis), ChangBo Guo (EasyStack), Alexis Lee (HPE)
3:05pm-3:45pm

OpenStack and Ansible: Automation born in the Cloud
Keith Tenzer
3:05pm-3:45pm

Message Routing: a next-generation alternative to RabbitMQ
Kenneth Giusti, Andrew Smith
3:05pm-3:45pm

Pushing your QA upstream
Rodrigo Duarte Sousa
3:55pm-4:35pm

TryStack: The Free OpenStack Community Sandbox
Will Foster, Kambiz Aghaiepour
3:55pm-4:35pm

Kerberos and Health Checks and Bare Metal, Oh My! Updates to OpenStack Sahara in Newton
Elise Gafford, Nikita Konovalov (Mirantis), Vitaly Gridnev (Mirantis)
5:05pm-5:45pm

Wednesday October 26th

Feeling a bit deprecated? We are too. Let&8217;s work together to embrace the OpenStack Unified CLI.
 Darin Sorrentino, Chris Janiszewski
11:25am-12:55pm

The race conditions of Neutron L3 HA&8217;s scheduler under scale performance
John Schwarz, Ann Taraday (Mirantis), Kevin Benton (MIrantis)
11:25am-12:55pm

Barbican Workshop &#8211; Securing the Cloud
Ade Lee, Douglas Mendizabel (Rackspace), Elvin Tubillara (IBM), Kaitlin Farr (John Hopkins University), Fernando Diaz (IBM)
11:25am-12:55pm

Cinder Always On &8211; Reliability And Scalability Guide
Gorka Eguileor, Michal Dulko (Intel)
12:15pm-12:55pm

OpenStack is an Application! Deploy and Manage Your Stack with Kolla-Kubernetes
Ryan Hallisey, Ken Wronkiewicz (Cisco), Michal Jastrzebski (Intel)
2:15pm-2:55pm

OpenStack Requirements : What we are doing, what to expect and whats next?
 Swapnil Kulkarni and Davanum Srinivas
3:55pm-4:35pm

Stewardship: bringing more leadership and vision to OpenStack
 Monty Taylor, Amrith Kumar (Tesora), Colette Alexander (Intel), Thierry Carrez (OpenStack Foundation)
3:55pm-4:35pm

Using OpenStack Swift to empower Turkcell&8217;s public cloud services
 Christian Schwede, Orhan Biyiklioglu (Turkcell) & Doruk Aksoy (Turkcell)
5:05pm-5:45pm

Lessons Learned from a Large-Scale Telco OSP+SDN Deployment
Guil Barros, Cyril Lopez, Vicken Krissian
5:05pm-5:45pm

KVM and QEMU Internals: Understanding the IO Subsystem
Kyle Bader
5:05pm-5:45pm

Effective Code Review
Dougal Matthews
5:55pm-6:35pm

Thursday October 27th

 Anatomy Of OpenStack Through The Eagle Eyes Of Troubleshooters
 Sadique Puthen
9:00am-9:40am

 The Ceph Power Show :: Hands-on Lab to learn Ceph &#8220;The most popular Cinder backend&#8221;
Brent Compton, Karan Singh
9:00am-9:40am

 Building self-healing applications with Aodh, Zaqar and Mistral
Zane Bitter, Lingxian Kong (Catalyst IT), Fei Long Wang (Catalyst IT)
9:00am-9:40am

 Writing A New Puppet OpenStack Module Like A Rockstar
Emilien Macchi
9:50am-10:30am

 Ambassador Community Report
Erwan Gallen, Kavit Munshi (Aptira), Jaesuk Ahn (SKT), Marton Kiss (Aptira), Akihiro Hasegawa (Bit-isle Equinix, Inc)
9:50am-10:30am

 VPP: the ultimate NFV vSwitch (and more!)?
Franck Baudin, Uri Elzur (Intel)
9:50am-10:30am

 Zuul v3: OpenStack and Ansible Native CI/CD
James Blair
11:00am-11:40am

 Container Defense in Depth
Thomas Cameron, Scott McCarty
11:50am-12:30pm

 Analyzing Performance in the Cloud : solving an elastic problem with a scientific approach
Alex Krzos, Nicholas Wakou (Dell)
11:50am-12:30pm

 One-stop-shop for OpenStack tools
Ruchika Kharwar
1:50pm-2:30pm

 OpenStack troubleshooting: So simple even your kids can do it
Vinny Valdez, Jonathan Jozwiak
1:50pm-2:30pm

 Solving Distributed NFV Puzzle with OpenStack and SDN
Rimma Iontel, Fernando Oliveira (VZ), Rajneesh Bajpai (BigSwitch)
2:40pm-3:20pm

 Ceph, now and later: our plan for open unified cloud storage
Sage Weil
2:40pm-3:20pm

 How to configure your cloud to be able to charge your users using official OpenStack components !
Julien Danjou, Stephane Albert (Objectif Libre), Christophe Sauthier (Objectif Libre)
2:40pm-3:20pm

 A dice with several faces: Coordinators, mentors and interns on OpenStack Outreachy internships
Victoria Martinez de la Cruz, Nisha Yadav (Delhi Tech Universty), Samuel de Medeiros Queiroz (HPE)
3:30pm-4:10pm

 Yo dawg I herd you like Containers, so we put OpenStack and Ceph in Containers
 Sean Cohen, Sebastien Han, Federico Lucifredi
3:30pm-4:10pm

 Picking an OpenStack Networking solution
Russell Bryant, Gal Sagie (Huawei), Kyle Mestery (IBM)
4:40pm-5:20pm

Forget everything you knew about Swift Rings &8211; here&8217;s everything you need to know about Swift Rings
Christian Schwede, Clay Gerrard (Swiftstack)
5:30pm-6:10pm

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How VMware and IBM offer choice with consistency

There are still questions about the strategic partnership between VMware and IBM announced back in February.
Many centered around two things: How much IBM will invest to ensure this partnership can scale and provide real value to both existing and new customers, as well as how the partnership would fit into the IBM vision of cloud.
Fast forward six months later to last week’s VMworld event in Las Vegas and those questions now have solid answers.
At the VMworld general session, IBM Senior Vice President of Cloud Robert LeBlanc shared the stage with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to announce that IBM is the first company to be recognized as a certified partner in VMware Cloud Foundation an on-demand software-defined data center (SDDC) for hybrid cloud deployments.
Concurrently, Forbes.com ran a story about the partnership and IBM’s overall investment. To date, IBM has more than four thousand service professionals training in the technology stack to support customers. In addition, the company has multiple beta clients making us of this new offering, with use cases ranging from disaster recovery to cloud bursting. To say that IBM has “invested” might be a bit of an understatement.
So what is Cloud Foundation?
Simply put, it is the automated, hyper-converged deployment of three central VMware offerings: Vsphere for virtualization and management, Vsan for software-defined storage and NSX for software defined networking.
What would once take weeks to stand up a new environment has been reduced to less than twelve hours through automation developed jointly by VMware and IBM. Once initially provisioned, scaling becomes even easier, with the ability to deploy new capacity in both directions in under an hour. All aspects of the offering are provided as a service, from licensing all the way down to the hardware satisfying all requirements of cloud for the customer.  With the additional capabilities of NSX, such as micro-segmentation, policy and host based controls, and the decreased dependency of enterprise storage hardware through VSAN, customers will gain a bevy of benefits with the click of a button on their browser.
In a world with multiple public cloud providers all vying for supremacy in the market, customers are faced with tough decisions. The complexity of transforming workloads makes the journey to cloud difficult, as most enterprise consumers are still running millions of legacy workloads that don’t necessarily fit the born on cloud model.
However, there is a bright spot. Most enterprises are predominantly virtual, with the largest share of those workloads running on VMware software. IBM can ease the stress of migration through this hybrid model. With more than 40 data centers worldwide, the build out of the Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud makes a perfect solution for customers begin, advance and facilitate their cloud journey without having to reinvent the wheel.
As Jason Mcgee, CTO of IBM Cloud Platform wrote, “Hybrid is a not transitional state; it’s a destination.” This partnership clearly reflects the principles of “choice with consistency.”
For more information on the VMware and IBM partnership please click here.
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Recent RDO blogs, September 12, 2016

Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last few weeks.

LinuxCon talk slides: “A Practical Look at QEMU’s Block Layer Primitives” by Kashyap Chamarthy

Last week I spent time at LinuxCon (and the co-located KVM Forum) Toronto. I presented a talk on QEMU’s block layer primitives. Specifically, the QMP primitives block-commit, drive-mirror, drive-backup, and QEMU’s built-in NBD (Network Block Device) server.

… read more at http://tm3.org/9x

Complex data transformations with nested Heat intrinsic functions by Steve Hardy

Disclaimer, what follows is either pretty neat, or pure-evil depending your your viewpoint ;) But it’s based on a real use-case and it works, so I’m posting this to document the approach, why it’s needed, and hopefully stimulate some discussion around optimizations leading to a improved/simplified implementation in the future.

… read more at http://tm3.org/9y

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 is here! So what’s new? by Marcos Garcia

This week we released the latest version of our OpenStack product, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9. This release contains more than 500 downstream enhancements, bug fixes, documentation changes, and security updates. It’s based on the upstream OpenStack Mitaka release. We have worked hard to reduce the time to release new versions and have successfully done so with this release! Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 contains new Mitaka features and functionality, as well as the additional hardening, stability, and certifications Red Hat is known for. Of course, there continues to be tight integration with other key portfolio products, as well as comprehensive documentation.

… read more at http://tm3.org/9z

Deploying Server on Ironic Node Baseline by Adam Young

My team is working on the ability to automatically enroll servers launched from Nova in FreeIPA. Debugging the process has proven challenging; when things fail, the node does not come up, and there is little error reporting. This article posts a baseline of what things look like prior to any changes, so we can better see what we are breaking.

… read more at http://tm3.org/9-

A retrospective of the OpenStack Telemetry project Newton cycle by Julien Danjou

A few weeks ago, I recorded an interview with Krishnan Raghuram about what was discussed for this development cycle for OpenStack Telemetry at the Austin summit.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a0

Deploying Fernet on the Overcloud by Adam Young

Here is a proof of concept of deploying an OpenStack Tripleo Overcloud using the Fernet token Provider.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a1

OpenStack Infra: Understanding Zuul by Arie Bregman

Recently I had the time to explore Zuul. I decided to gather everything I learned here in this post. Perhaps you’ll find it useful for your understanding of Zuul.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a2

OpenStack Infra: How to deploy Zuul by Arie Bregman

This is the second post on Zuul, which focuses on deploying it and its services. To learn what is Zuul and how it works, I recommend to read the previous post.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a3

Scaling-up TripleO CI coverage with scenarios by Emilien Macchi

When the project OpenStack started, it was “just” a set of services with the goal to spawn a VM. I remember you run everything on your laptop and test things really quickly.
The project has now grown, and thousands of features have been implemented, more backends / drivers are supported and new projects joined the party.
It makes testing very challenging because everything can’t be tested in CI environment.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a4

Introducing patches to RDO CloudSIG packages by Jakub Ruzicka

RDO infrastructure and tooling has been changing/improving with each OpenStack release and we now have our own packaging workflow powered by RPM factory at review.rdoproject.org, designed to keep up with supersonic speed of upstream development.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a5

From decimal to timestamp with MySQL by Julien Danjou

When working with timestamps, one question that often arises is the precision of those timestamps. Most software is good enough with a precision up to the second, and that’s easy. But in some cases, like working on metering, a finer precision is required.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a6

Generating Token Request JSON from Environment Variables by Adam Young

When working with New APIS we need to test them with curl prior to writing the python client. I’ve often had to hand create the JSON used for the token request, as I wrote about way back here. Here is a simple bash script to convert the V3 environment variables into the JSON for a token request.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a7

Actionable CI by Assaf Muller

I’ve observed a persistent theme across valuable and successful CI systems, and that is actionable results.
A CI system for a project as complicated as OpenStack requires a staggering amount of energy to maintain and improve. Often times the responsible parties are focused on keeping it green and are buried under a mountain of continuous failures, legit or otherwise. So much so that they don’t have time to focus on the following questions:

… read more at http://tm3.org/a8

Thoughts on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and certification of Tesora Database as a Service Platform by Ken Rugg, Chief Executive Officer, Tesora

When I think about open source software, Red Hat is first name that comes to mind. At Tesora, we’ve been working to make our Database as a Service Platform available to Red Hat OpenStack Platform users, and now it is a Red Hat certified solution. Officially collaborating with Red Hat in the context of OpenStack, one of the fastest growing open source projects ever, is a tremendous opportunity.

… read more at http://tm3.org/a9
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Thoughts on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and certification of Tesora Database as a Service Platform

When I think about open source software, Red Hat is first name that comes to mind. At Tesora, we’ve been working to make our Database as a Service Platform available to Red Hat OpenStack Platform users, and now it is a Red Hat certified solution. Officially collaborating with Red Hat in the context of OpenStack, one of the fastest growing open source projects ever, is a tremendous opportunity.
This week, we announced that Red Hat has certified the Tesora Database as a Service (DBaaS) Platform on Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Mutual customers can operate database as a service with 15 different database types knowing that they have been extensively tested in the Red Hat environment. They also have the confidence of knowing that their database software is running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in an environment that is supported by Red Hat.

This announcement is a great milestone in our relationship with Red Hat. Tesora has been collaborating with Red Hat folks in the OpenStack community since we launched Tesora in early 2014. Last year, we were excited to have Red Hat come on board as an investor in our company. We feel that this announcement is great news for our joint customers since it enhances the combined solution.
We also share a common philosophy with Red Hat in that the work we do on OpenStack Trove is done “upstream first”. This is evidenced by the fact that even as a relatively small startup, Tesora has become not just the number 1 contributor to the Trove project, but also one of the top 25 contributors in all of OpenStack, as measured by Stackalytics.
At the same time, Tesora is focused on providing the best DBaaS software in the industry while working with Red Hat and others for the underlying infrastructure and various database vendors, such as Oracle, IBM, MongoDB, and DataStax for the core database technology.
To make this possible, we run a robust set of integration testing across all of these database technologies in both single instance and clustered configurations. This enables them to be easily deployed in a Red Hat OpenStack cloud without requiring extensive, database-specific knowledge.
Of course all of this great collaboration and technical innovation would be useless without a drive towards customer success. While we already have some users operating the Tesora platform to deliver DBaaS in Red Hat-based environments, we expect even greater interest now that we are a Red Hat certified solution. We certainly hope that Red Hat OpenStack Platform users looking for a simple way to offer databases on-demand to your users and will consider giving the solution, certified for Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a try.
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How hybrid cloud management accelerates business

Global CEOs recognize cloud as critical to their business and understand that it is not always easy to manage their cloud infrastructures.
Organizations should be able to jump in and react quickly to changing demands, scale resources on the fly and accelerate performance across diverse resources. Automation and orchestration solutions are critical technologies to address this need. One of the biggest gaps that remains in many orchestration solutions is taking the cloud applications into production, which requires connecting to existing enterprise tools and adhering to existing policies.
&#8220;IT organizations need orchestration solutions that can consistently implement service models, governance and policies across complex, heterogeneous environments — including cloud, virtual and legacy infrastructure,&#8221; according to a 2013 IDC report on orchestration. This is where IBM Cloud Orchestrator can help organizations add value in the cloud. IBM Cloud Orchestrator provides cloud management for your IT services, allowing you to accelerate the delivery of software and infrastructure. It reduces the number of steps to manage public, private and hybrid clouds with an easy-to-use interface based on open standards. It also gives you access to ready-to-use content packs.
Here are some examples of how our clients have benefited from using IBM Cloud Orchestrator:
Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT), which managed and promoted the French Open, wanted to boost the global visibility of the tournament with a secure and cost-effective digital environment. It was looking for a flexible, reliable and high-performance IT infrastructure to manage unpredictable spikes in demand. With IBM Cloud Orchestrator software, FFT was able to automatically optimize workloads, dynamically create and allocate resources in real time, and deliver transparent and real-time access across resources. Jeremy Bottom, General Manager of FFT, said, “Partnering with IBM, we have demonstrated our ability to add to the excitement of tennis fans whether they are in the stands or at home.”
HBL, Pakistan’s largest bank, was looking to provide its enterprise customers the ability to execute high-volume transactions through a cash management portal. IBM Cloud Orchestrator software was used by the application team to manage HBL’s IT environment, orchestrate workloads across the PureApplication System, and oversee hardware, storage, networking and applications across the IT environment. The IBM platform delivered an immediate, up-front savings of approximately $500,000 in storage and hardware-related costs, as compared to conventional hardware and software procurement.
IBM Cloud Orchestrator can help customers rapidly implement more scalable and cost-effective data center management solutions across diverse, heterogeneous application and infrastructure.
Join us at IBM Edge 2016 to learn how you can simplify and automate your IT infrastructure across the hybrid cloud. Visit booth #525 to get a brief demo on how you can put this into practice in your organization. Register today.
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