1. Technical overview: Migration Factory Team
Greg O’Connor
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

2. Elastic enterprise
We see a world where enterprise applications can be provisioned as quickly and easily as mobile apps for seamless movement to and from any operational stack.

3. Experienced technology team
AppZero at a glance
Experienced technology team
Leadership team
Greg O’Connor, CEO Co-founder and President of Sonic Software; innovator of ESB product category
Giovanni Boschi, CTO Chief Architect BMC/BladeLogic and Sonic
Director, Sonic Products Progress Software
Jim Noschese, VP Sales VP Sales CIMTEK, Inc, Open Ratings, Emptoris, and Parametric Technology (PTC)
Valerie O’Connell, VP Marketing Managing Director, Aberdeen Group; VP Product Marketing CA
Mark Woodward, Director Engineering Director Newbridge, Architect, Alcatel Lucent Gandalf
Board of Directors/Advisors
Nigel Stokes – former CEO DataMirror
Simon Crosby – former CTO Xen/Citrix
Joseph Alsop – former CEO Progress Software
Derrick Ho – Covington
Company
Founded: Sept 2010; purchase of Trigence assets
25 employees
3 Patents granted
Offices: Andover, MA; Kanata, Canada

4. Complex enterprise app movement
Zero Lock-In
Migrate cross clouds, cross hypervisor
Dissolve packaging to run natively
Zero Install
App images run in snap
Zero Conflicts
Apps resilient to changes
Appzero encapsulates complex enterprse applications into a package called a Virtual Application Appliance (VAA) that can be copied and run instantly without installation.
Applications may be easily moved among machines (physical or virtual), including those in a cloud, providing OS-free instant provisioning
Config
Registry
Files
Services
VAA
Image OS
Image
Separate

5. Primary use cases On boarding Migrate existing applications to cloud
Fastest, most cost effective, systematic way to get on a cloud
Hybrid/Federated
Continuous and incremental “On boarding”
Cloud bursting
No lock-in
Cloud protection: instance, region, vendor
Enterprise App Store
Dynamic catalog image assembly
Linear vs. exponential image management
ISV distribution
Pre-installed, pre-configured software distribution
Fastest time to deployment
Reusable demo/poc, pre-configured implementations

6. Operational stack “cloud” spectrum
Enterprise
Controlled
Shared
Control
Provider
Control
"By 2012, 80% of Fortune 1000 enterprises will be using some cloud computing services, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets." - Gartner

7. Workload movement landscape
Cloud
VMWare
Citrix: Xen
MS: Hyper-V
CloudSwitch
MS: Server App-V
Server
Racemi
MS: App-V
VMWare:Thinstall
Desktop
Machine OS
Application 7 7 7

8. Installing an application
Files
Registry
Services
Config

9. Isolating an application
Services
Registry
Files
Config

10. Isolating an application
Config
Registry
Files
Services

11. VAA – SQLServer Zero OS SQLServer.vaa
Config
Registry
Files
Services
A VAA is a file that contains pre-installed, pre-configured application(s) with all of its dependencies
but
Zero OS

12. VAA – Deployment Salesperson, SE Customer Datacenter Cloud Provider
SQLServer.vaa
Customer Datacenter
A VAA image can be copied and run on to many different machines and machine types
Cloud Provider

13. Application independence
AppZero VAAs are unaffected by virtual machine concerns:
Hypervisor changes
Processor architecture
CPU core count
Storage configuration or technology
OS configuration and file versions
Cloud technology

14. Why not just use a VM? (virtual machine)
VMs are huge because they move the OS as well as the application
VMs that contain Microsoft OS cannot be distributed to customers
Managed Provider will only use their “certified” OS
VMs are about hardware consolidation/savings, not application mobility
App and
foundation
Storage Space (GB)
Storage Space
(GB)
Transfer rate (GB/Hr)
Elapsed Time (Hrs)
VAA
Migration time Improvement
.NET
0.05 50 1
500x
J2EE
0.75
67x
LAMP
0.45
0.5
100x
SQL Server
1.5
33x
MySQL
50x
AppZero packages applications without a VM/OS:
Application-centric by design
The result is a dramatic and permanent increase in speed of application mobility

15. How AppZero works
Package: Create virtual application appliance (VAA) with the AppZero Creator Deploy: VAAs are copied to physical or virtual machines -- applications run without installation. Zero-install. A VAA is compressed for minimal transfer time. Run: AppZero Director creates small runtime environment to isolate VAA from operating system. The application writes changes to the VAA. Underlying OS is unchanged. Administer: AppZero Admin manages VAAs
App
AppZero Admin
AppZero Director
Operating System

16. VAA Templates
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <AppZero version="7">
- <APPLIANCE>
- <PROPERTIES>
<DESCRIPTION>ApacheDS</DESCRIPTION>
<BOOT_AUTODOCK>N</BOOT_AUTODOCK>
<BOOT_STARTMENU>Y</BOOT_STARTMENU>
<DOCK_AUTOSTARTUP>N</DOCK_AUTOSTARTUP>
<DOCK_AUTOPUBLISH>N</DOCK_AUTOPUBLISH>
<UNDOCK_AUTOUPDATE>N</UNDOCK_AUTOUPDATE>
<DEFAULT_APP />
<SHOW_SCRIPTS>N</SHOW_SCRIPTS>
<HW_SERIAL_NUMBER>7826DB5A</HW_SERIAL_NUMBER>
- <!--
<NETWORK_ID><DESTINATION>NATIVE</DESTINATION><IP_ADDRESS> </IP_ADDRESS><GATEWAY> </GATEWAY><DNS_SERVER> </DNS_SERVER><SUBNET_MASK> </
A template defines the content and configuration of a VAA
Produced as part of VAA creation or from an existing VAA
Can be reused to capture a new application instance and its unique configuration

17. Lightweight intercept technology
Intercept Layer
The application view is “in the context” of the VAA and merged with underlying OS

18. VAA context Isolated File system (includes deletion) Registry
Background services
COM components (dll, new exe)
New processes
Integrated
IIS (app pools, hostheaders, etc.)
WMI management
RPC

19. Application stacks VAAs may be combined to form “Application Stacks”
Wordpress Web site
Wordpress data files
Apache Web server
MySQL

20. Flexible topology Application stacks may be scaled as required
Single Server

21. Flexible topology Application stacks may be scaled as required
Multiple Servers
Database Tier
Web Tier

22. AppZero Dissolve – SQLServer.vaa
Config
Registry
Files
Services
VAA running in AppZero context

23. AppZero Dissolve – SQLServer.vaa
Config
Registry
Files
Services
VAA dissolve into underlying OS
In context view merged into underlying OS
App running natively as if installed

24. Why make applications moveable?
Extreme simplicity – copy and run
Agility
Cloud: Move apps from D2C2C2D
Diversity of platform: Laptop, Data Center, IaaS, MCP, PaaS
VM doesn’t solve the app/OS problem
VM images tie OS and apps together and are managed as a one
Separate app and OS images to reduce permutations
Migration VM images among differing infrastructures can be difficult
App & OS patches done once – gold “images”
Simple copy for dev, test, release, DR, archive

25. Image Catalog Deployment Database Biz Logic UI OS Base Middleware
Presentation
Windows
Monitoring
App Server
App logic
Security
Messaging
Linux
Storage
Data Tables
Database
Solaris
Backup
Workflow
Process OS
Owner : Sys Admin
Base
Owner : Infrastructure
Middleware
Owner : Infrastructure, DBA
Workload
Owner : App Dev, DBA
Deployment
Database
Biz Logic UI 25

26. OpStacks and “images” Enterprise Controlled Shared Control Provider

27. Frictionless dynamic composition
None
Enterprise
Controlled
Shared
Control
Provider
Control

28. AppZero Creator - How do I create a VAA?
Output
AppZero Creator
Source
VAA
VAA
VAA
Approaches for creatation:
1. Snapshot / delta
2. Templates
3. Learn mode
4. Zapp - Tether
Physical / VM
VAA
Data Center
VAA

29. AppZero Creator – Snapshot process
Install OS, patches + Appzero 1
appzero
Take a system Snapshot (baseline) 2 3
appzero
Install application(s) 4
appzero
Take another system Snapshot and Create the VAA
VAA
You can also produce a VAA template

30. AppZero Creator – Creation through Template
Instruct creator to
use the template
appzero
Applications installed
Template file
VAA

31. Creation by learn mode VAA Applications installed
appzero
Applications installed
C:\Program Files\Appzero>appzcreate c:\appliances\Bugzilla /SX Apache2.2,MySQL

32. Applications installed
Appzero zapp migration
VAA
appzero
Establish the link
Applications installed
Target
Server

33. Zapp– Run time application migration
Begin migration by running the app on a new sever
Application components extracted on demand from source to target
Source Server
Target Server
Primary use case: Migration of existing system

34. Zapp migration with Wordpress
Existing Wordpress application
Empty VAA on target machine
Configure VAA properties: App, Services, Tether machine, Credentials
WordPress
Apache
MySQL
Source Server
Target Server

35. DEMO

36. The next generation of app provisioning
App state capture throughout the app lifecycle
Apps installed and migrated wherever and whenever on demand
Workload services on demand, independent of infrastructure
Flexible cost-based and location-based agility for optimized resource utilization
Dramatic reductions in time and cost compared with traditional deployment processes

37. Primary use cases On boarding Migrate existing applications to cloud
Fastest, most cost effective, systematic way to get on a cloud
Hybrid/Federated
Continuous and incremental “On boarding”
Cloud bursting
No lock-in
Cloud protection: instance, region, vendor
Enterprise App Store
Dynamic catalog image assembly
Linear vs. exponential image management
ISV distribution
Pre-installed, pre-configured software distribution
Fastest time to deployment
Reusable demo/poc, pre-configured implementations

38. Q& A