On-Demand Webinar: Software Virtualization Lifecycle

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• #10: What is the Skytap solution? Skytap Cloud is the world’s most advanced cloud-based solution for delivering software development and test environments. Our patented SaaS (software-as-a-service) approach was purpose built to allow enterprise teams to capture, provision, share and tear down complete, high capacity dev/test environments in seconds or minutes, not days or weeks. Skytap Cloud offers a management view, as well as supporting API and REST-based service calls and build commands. Customers can run on Skytap’s own global cloud infrastructure, as well as leveraging leading cloud infrastructure services such as AWS.
• #16: You can read today about software-defined data centers, and HP is continuously innovating to equip you to take advantage of this trend, but I’d like to make an even bigger point, and that is you will be seeing “Software-defined everything” in the near future. Consider a couple of points: A high-end Mercedes now contains 100,000 lines of code CTO of Ford (Motor) Research and Innovation, Paul Mascarenas: “We see technology as more than just an impressive list of microprocessors, sensors and software; it’s about the application of that technology to create an experience that enhances the driver’s time behind the wheel.” Increasingly everything is connected – software in the device and smart clouds/compute on the backend. But what’s happening in parallel is that consumer expectations – thanks to mobile apps – are changing rapidly. We don’t want to wait for new features and capabilities – we expect them to be delivered instantly. As you see from this chart, Enterprises IT leaders are seeing a similar trend – the need to move from a world where we might have updated an app 4x in a year (2010), to 2016 where we’re seeing updates 3x month, or 2020 where we’re seeing updates every 3 days. This represents an enormous sea change for our Application and IT Operations professionals… At the end of the day those who can get there will be at the forefront of user experience and delivering what their customers, employees and partners actually want. More detail below: We believe one of the key “weapons of choice” for beating competition in 2020 will be applications (if you are in public service, the better the app, the more happy your “customers” will be) Apps everywhere – arrays of sensors, smart devices (the “internet of things”), in the back of car seats, shopping trolleys Multi-screen (smartphone, tablet, laptop, smart TV, back of car seat, air-plane) will become key – with a transfer of context as you switch from device to device If competitors fight thru applications, the pace of change of apps will only increase. HP’s own research has found that customer expect a 120X increase in the rate of release of applications. What do we therefore need? Our dev and test systems need to ensure our “weapons are well sharpened” – performing well, multi-device, etc. The current idea that you dev, wait, test, wait (a long time) and then release, just won’t work in 2020. We need to think “continuous development”. This is NOT just a technological thing – we need to change objectives and maybe, even organizational structures We believe there will be “anchoring, planet applications” like the core HR system or FaceBook or Evernote, and around it, a whole range of “satellites” – apps, integrations and data analyses. This will apply both to consumer apps (it already does with FaceBook, Spotify and Evernote, for example), but also to business apps like, maybe, “HR2020” – the world’s leading HR and payroll SaaS service (made up name !!) In 2020, IT won’t built as many apps as it does today. There will be millions of apps “out there”. BUT, many of these won’t be safe. One of IT’s key roles will be in choosing the anchoring planet apps, and then putting into the Enterprise App Store those apps, integrations and data analyses that are “safe”. A safe Enterprise App Store entry is “good to the corporate data” – doesn’t hurt it, doesn’t create lots of unrelated copies of it.
• #18: And the application changes are to better serve the business.. Businesses are changing more rapidly, which means they must have agile business processes. But what is a business process in application terms? It’s a composition of orchestrated services and application components. Let’s look at an example: One of the most commonly known composite application is shopping process that we experience almost every day. We search in catalogs, login to our profiles, pay with credit cards, goods are then shipped to us and we are provided with tracking capabilities. None of such system is today completely implemented in-house. In order to keep up with the business agility requirements the need to provide business processes fast is greater than ever before. Rather than build, we compose our business processes from already existing components and by integrating to business services customers already use. In such an agile and fluid environment development and testing teams are faced with challenges that limit ability to deliver as expected by business.
• #19: Service virtualization is defined as enabling development and test teams to simulate and model their dependencies of unavailable or limited services that cannot be easily virtualized by conventional server or hardware virtualization means. Service virtualization removes constraints and wait times frequently experienced by development and test teams needing to access components, architectures, databases, mainframes, and so on. Modern software applications and products are complex, highly distributed, heterogeneous, and interdependent. Service virtualization removes the constraints associated with components connected to an application under test that may be: Incomplete or undergoing changes Controlled by a partner or third-party Unavailable at the time required by either the development or testing team Inaccessible for the full duration of time required to test, especially for performance and load testing Difficult to provision or configure in a test environment Needed concurrently by multiple teams with different test data Service virtualization reduces the risks and costs associated with the software lifecycle. Service virtualization will: Deliver the necessary environment or service for development or testing Enhance testing through more code coverage and platforms December 11, 2012 © 2012 voke media, llc. All rights reserved. Reproduction and distribution prohibited. Market Snapshot™ Report: Service Virtualization 3 Reduce the use of a high-cost infrastructure for testing Remove the constraint of waiting for services or components to test ƒ Improve time-to-market Service virtualization fosters true development and test team productivity and reduces constraints impacting cost, quality, and schedule. Consumerization of IT — Employees are demanding that business software be as intuitive, easy to use, and as high quality as their consumer apps driving non-business focused activities. Service virtualization empowers development and test teams to deliver higher quality software across multiple platforms. ƒ. Demand for quality — Software is a core business function that must work. It runs the business and is a competitive differentiator. Software is also directly related to the brand, and a software failure is a brand failure. Moreover, quality software is expected and demanded by all organizations. Service virtualization helps ensure a higher degree of quality by increasing code coverage and reducing the number of defects released to production. ƒ. Mobility and the cloud — The proliferation of mobile devices and the explosion of the cloud mean that users are expecting a quality experience in an even greater number of delivery platforms. That quality experience means that software works functionally and performs to meet expectations and demands. Service virtualization enables performance and load testing by virtualizing platforms and making them available to test for performance and scalability. ƒ. Software reuse — Reusing software components across multiple applications or products is critical to keep up with the demand for innovation. Software reuse implies that the quality of the component has been validated before being reused. Service virtualization allows for components to be tested for use in isolation or in composite applications. Reusable components are always available for test. ƒ. Integration of supply chains and partnerships — Organizations do not build software alone. Today’s software is a complex system with various contributors throughout the supply chain. It is critical to understand how software developed by multiple partners or members of the supply chain will work together. Service virtualization makes it practical to share assets and virtualize an entire system of software from any member of the supply chain. ƒ. Development testing — By allowing component-level developers to prevent defects from leaving the development phase, software becomes more predictable, traceable, visible, and transparent throughout the lifecycle. Service virtualization provides a way for teams across the lifecycle to collaborate and deliver higher quality software. ƒ. Infrastructure testing — Testing the infrastructure ensures that a bottleneck or anything added to the infrastructure does not negatively affect the network or other connected elements. Testing both the infrastructure and the software running on it helps drive end-to-end quality. Service virtualization supports infrastructure testing Market Snapsho
• #20: Let’s diagram the challenges of delivering hybrid and cloud applications What if you are accessing a third party service such as the payment vendor in your composite application that you need to test? What internal applications are you running or accessing that are still on a mainframe? is all our account or user info on a mainframe you need to access? how limited is your access to this mainframe for development or testing needs? With HP service virtualization you can see how we are solving these access and dependency issues….NEXT SLIDE
• #21: Let’s diagram the challenges of delivering hybrid and cloud applications What if you are accessing a third party service such as the payment vendor in your composite application that you need to test? What internal applications are you running or accessing that are still on a mainframe? is all our account or user info on a mainframe you need to access? how limited is your access to this mainframe for development or testing needs? With HP service virtualization you can see how we are solving these access and dependency issues….NEXT SLIDE
• #23: Our product is a very strong offering, mature, on release 3.2 If you want a Forrester quote, add it to benefits or summary, not in product information
• #24: Access components when you need them No more test shortcuts due to cost concerns Critical enabler for mobile & cloud applications Large market, continues to grow rapidly (right column) Extensive customer base Customers want a few things… (these are the 4 items listed on the left side)
• #25: Network behavior is simulated as well Virtual services function and perform just like real Even when network characteristics augment the behavior
• #26: E2E Virtualization results: 4x faster to test 45% More Test Coverage Must-have for mobile
• #27: Components are not always available, SV solves for this…
• #28: We want to touch on the personas who will be the first line of contact for the HP Service Virtualization solution. These personas are most interested in this product and best understand how it can problem solve service access issues for them. And they are also going to be familiar with the problems you are discussing as well as what products we offer in those spaces right now. Developers: Can use HP SV in development to replace services they can not access Functional Testers: To test earlier in the cycle And for Performance Testers: This is unique to HP SV, it is the only product that allows performance testers access to virtualized services to do large scale load testing, which means they can test more realistic performance scenarios without impacting production systems.
• #32: Now putting the complete story together.
• #33: Summary, our SV solution is the industry’s easiest to use and fully integrated with QC, ALM and testing.. Ready for action Shift left: Test earlier without need for end system to be ready Test more scenarios quickly (manipulating data, performance, network models) Ease of use and management– from the web, through HP ALM and QC Reduce infrastructure costs: share virtual services across teams Removing dependencies: Predictable schedules and launch dates