gogrid/appzero: "moving windows server applications to the cloud in 3 easy steps"

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“to the Cloud in Three Easy Steps - 1 - Apr 12, 2023

GoGrid & GoGrid & AppAppZeroZero“Moving Windows Server Applications to

the Cloud in Three Easy Steps ”

GoGrid and AppZero enable enterprises to move their existing mission critical applications to and from the

cloud at the speed of the network…

fast and easy



Webinar Highlights

Introduction

About AppZero

About GoGrid

Partnership Overview

Benefits/Features

Re-cap

Q&A



Introduction

Greg O’Connor – Pioneering the Virtual Application Appliance approach to simplifying application-

lifecycle management, enabling application mobility to the cloud and enables reduction of the infrastructure needed for your data center He was co-founder and president of Sonic Software, acquired in 2005 by Progress Software (PRGS). At Sonic, Greg O'Connor evangelized and created the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product category, which is generally accepted today as the

foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Paul Lappas– Paul is the VP of Engineering is a founding member of ServePath, the parent

company of GoGrid. He has many years in the Internet Infrastructure business working for SaaS, Hosting, and IaaS services.



Who is AppZero?

Pioneering the virtual application appliance (VAA) approach to server-based application provisioning, AppZero encapsulates an application and its dependencies -- with zero OS components. The result is instant-on applications for cloud or datacenter.

March– Launch at DEMO 09

• “Best Business Application AppZero” – Computer World • “My Favorite Demo 09 Products “ – PC Magazine• “Best of Demo 09” - Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing• “AppZero – Even Your Grandma Can Run Enterprise IT” - Cloud Ave

April– Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing– Virtualization Power Panel– Server-side application virtualization Trigence reborn as AppZero

May– Commercialize AppZero 4.0 Windows 2003/2008 May 10– Partnership with GoGrid



The Evolution of Deployment

AppZero

Virtual Machine

App

OS

AppApp

Physical Server

AppZero

Virtual Machine

App

OS

AppApp

Physical Server

Virtual Machines

Physical Server

OS

Application

Physical Server

OS

App App App

Server Virtualization• VM

VMware Xen Hyper-V

Virtual Appliances• VA • JeOS

VMWareRed HatrPathCohesive FT

Data Center 1.0

Pre - 2001

Physical Server

ESX Server

Virtual Machines

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

UNIX Windows

Hypervisor Vision

2001 - 2015

Physical Server

ESX Server

Virtual Machines

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

AppZero

App

OS

AppApp

Physical Server

MobilityConsolidation

Server App Virtualization

2010-2025

• VAA• ZeOS

AppZero



The Right Layer of Decoupling

Server Virtualization– Reduce the number of physical

servers– Reduce the infrastructure needed

for your data center (power, cooling, battery backup, network switch ports, etc)

– Ability to bring up new servers quickly

– Overall, lower TCO of

servers– No change to OS/App

Economics– VMSprawl (OS+App)

• # VM increase • Cost go up

Physical Server

ESX Server

Virtual Machines

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

Server App Virtualization– Reduces number of physical

and virtual servers– Reduce the infrastructure

needed for your data center (operating systems, anti-virus, management, back up etc)

– Ability to move and provision application quickly

– Overall, lower TCO of applications

– Vastly simplified OS/App Management

– Role clarity• Sys admin• App owner

AppZero

Virtual Machine

App

OS

AppApp

Physical Server

AppZero

Virtual Machine

App

OS

AppApp

Physical Server



What is a VAA?

OS

Application

Registry File system

Application

App Registry App file system

App.vaa

A VAA is file that contains pre-installed and pre

configured application and all of its dependencies but

Zero OS



VAA in the Data Center

App 2 App 2.1

VAA Catalog

Network Storage

Physical or VirtualStandard OS Image(s)All exactly the same

App 1App 1App 1App 1


App 3App 3App 3App 3App 3App 3

App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1App 1App 1

App 2

App 3.1App 3.1

Start:No Install/Config headaches

Updates:Risk and Hassle free

Rollback:Simple & Easy Rollbacks

Utilization:Dynamic/flexible

Consolidation:Optimizes resource utilization

Life Cycle ActionServer Pool



VAA with GoGrid

App 2 App 2.1

Cloud Storage



App 3App 3App 3App 3App 3App 3

App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1.1App 1App 1App 1

App 2

App 3.1App 3.1

Start:No Install/Config headaches

Updates:Risk and Hassle free

Rollback:Simple & Easy Rollbacks

Utilization:Dynamic/flexible

Consolidation:Optimizes resource utilization

Life Cycle ActionServer Pool

VAA Catalog



What is State of Art Today?Do it by hand – WikiMedia application example

– Install• PHP• Apahce• MySQL• Media Wiki

– Configure to work together• PHP• Apahce• MySQL• Media Wiki

– Reconfigure from existing configuration but changed for the GoGrid environment

• PHP• Apahce• MySQL• Media Wiki

– Move the application specific data• Configuration/modifications• The data in db

– Test– Establish a time window do the move live data



AppZero - Mobility

App 1

1. Create a VAA 2. Move VAA 3. Run VAA



AppZero Step 1 - Create

Creating a VAAWizard driven creation processCopies all files and related artifacts to application into 1 file and compress it

<app>.vaa -1 self contained file:– Programs– Configuration files– Registry entries– Network address– Machine name/id– Services



AppZero Step 2 - Move

Copy the file to GoGrid



AppZero Step 3 - Run

Start <app.vaa>



Summary – How to get to the Cloud

3 easy steps– Create VAA from an App– Move VAA to GoGrid– Run VAA in the Cloud

No changes to your application– Reduce risk

Save– Money– Time

Future proof– No Lock-in

Be a Cloud pioneer– Be a hero



What is GoGrid?

Windows & Linux Servers in the Cloud

Web-based Portal & API

FULL root or Administrator access

Connect via SSH or RDC

Free f5 Load Balancing

Free Dedicated Public & Private Networks/IP’s

Free Support



Hardware “in the Cloud”

Only GoGrid currently delivers Cloud Computing with:– Real, contiguous blocks of static IP addresses– Real VLANs (Public/Private)– Persistent Storage– Windows 2008 and SQL Server– Included f5 enterprise-grade load balancing

Support for “hybrid” cloud / dedicated – GoGrid “Cloud Connect”

• PCI compliance with dedicated DB server• Custom physical hardware managed or colocated

AJAX GUI & Open API standard specification for “cloudcenters”



GoGrid Portal



GoGrid = IaaS

SaaS – Software as a Service

PaaS– Platform as a Service

IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service



The “Cloud Pyramid”

Cloud Services economy is a pyramid

Layers equate structure

Building blocks: – Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)– Platform-as-a-Serice (PaaS)– Applications (SaaS)

Breadth vs. Niche



Cloud Service Economy

IaaS (Infrastructure)– AWS, GoGrid

PaaS (Platform)– Google App Engine– RightScale– Force.com (Salesforce)

SaaS (Application)– Salesforce (CRM)– Gmail (Mail)



Summary

CapEx is dead!

Demand your companies use the cloud

GoGrid offers free trials:

$100 Coupon code: “AppZero”



Questions?

?



Move your Application to the Cloud

Go to http://zone.appzero.com/content/get-started-vaas

Download MediaWiki VAA

Run it locally

Move to GoGrid

Experience the power of application mobility Appzero

Experience the GoGrid cloud

Find a project to move to the cloud



Contact Information

GoGrid Contact

Shane Spiegelman– Business Development

– Email: [email protected]

Michael Sheehan– Technology Evangelist for GoGrid & ServePath– Email: [email protected]

AppZero Contact

Greg O’Connor– CEO– Email: GregO@appzero

Mark Yohai– VP or Sales and Business Development– Email: [email protected]



THANK YOU THANK YOU for attendingfor attendingGoGrid & GoGrid & AppAppZeroZero

“Moving Windows Server Applications to the Cloud in Three

Easy Steps