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Data-intensive The volume of data flowing through businesses is predicted to grow by 5060 percent a year. 2 Managing this growth using a traditional relational database approach is costly because these systems are unable to scale horizontally. Organizations want access to real-time data delivered more cost-efficiently and systems that can scale elastically as demand requires. Virtualized By enabling faster provisioning, virtualization allows enterprises to simplify application delivery and further reduce time to
IT is undergoing a transformation: Applications are changing, infrastructure is changing, and organizations are looking for a pathway to harness the promise of the cloud. Application platforms of today have markedly different requirements than those we have relied upon in the past. VMware vFabric is evolving to meet the needs of todays organizations.3
Rachel Chalmers Director, Infrastructure, The 451 Group
Develop and Deploy Modern Applications with VMware. IT organizations need a new approach to application development and deployment to accommodate these modern application characteristics. They need a new model conceived and designed with the cloud in mind. As the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, VMware delivers it. The VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform is engineered to enable IT to efficiently build, run and scale modern, data-intensive applications and deploy them in private, public or enterprise hybrid clouds. The vFabric platform improves application delivery by intelligently leveraging underlying infrastructure for the highest application performance, quality of service and resource utilization.
market for new applications. Modern applications will likely be deployed on virtual infrastructure or within private, public or hybrid clouds. Organizations must consider how to ensure that these applications are portable so that they can run in the most appropriate environment for business needs.
Figure 1: VMware Cloud Application Platform solutions support the complete cloud application lifecycle.
Telecom Italia Using Spring, our development time, debugging and testing is reduced by 30 percent. This is a critical advantage because of our tight deadlines for prototype delivery.7
Marco Ughetti Senior Software Architectin the Information Technology Innovation Group, Telecom Italia
LinkedIn Spring is nonintrusive, allowing LinkedIn developers to concentrate on business logic and code, without having to worry asmuch about the infrastructure.10
Yan Pujante Distinguished Software Engineer and Member ofthe Founding Team, LinkedIn Corporation
Figure 2: vFabric provides infrastructure consistency from development to quality assurance (QA) to choice of production locations.
the largest global organizations. vFabric leverages Tomcat at its core to simply and unify development, testing and production environments, decreasing the cost of updates. The flexible solution also ensures consistent management. Reduce Costs with Lightweight Runtime Services. Lightweight runtime environments such as vFabric typically cost enterprises 6070 percent less than legacy solutions. 8 They also enable greater application server consolidation ratiosat least two times greaterwhen deployed on VMware virtualized environments.9 Purpose-built to support applications developed with modern frameworks
such as Spring, vFabric provides superior scalability, performance, management and system utilization. Unlike traditional Java EE servers with large disk and memory footprints, the vFabric platforms lean architecture maximizes disk, memory and CPU resources. When deployed with VMware vSphere the industrys leading virtualization platform used to optimize underlying computing infrastructuresthe tightly integrated solution ensures that applications deliver unmatched deployment automation and selfservice provisioning.
bet365.com GemFire technology had the scale, flexibility and reliability to make our systems our strength.11
Martin Davies Chief Technology Officer, bet365.com
With its built-in, distributed data management platform, vFabric provides dynamic scalability, high performance and database-like persistence. It blends advanced techniques such as replication, partitioning, data-aware routing and continuous querying to help enterprises achieve unparalleled performance. It also includes database-class reliability and improves operational efficiency with nondisruptive up-and-down scalability. Power Database as a Service for the Cloud. Frustrating to both development teams and database administrators (DBAs), the cumbersome database
provisioning process has led to unprecedented database sprawl. vFabric offers just-in-time provisioning of fully configured databases in minutes. Included are built-in, automated policies to enable, monitor and test database backup and recovery, saving DBAs time and enhancing business agility. vFabric increases developer productivity by allowing a developer to use a self-service portal to get a clone up and ready in minutesrather than daysregardless of database size. A series of vSphere optimized databases, beginning with the popular PostgreSQL, will allow IT teams to take advantage of virtual and cloud evironments.
Figure 3: vFabric delivers in-memory speed and elastic scalability with the reliability, security and data management capabilities of a traditional database.
CSC The development community has chosen the Spring Framework for the development of Java applications due to the core tenets of productivity and application portability. As organizations move business processes to the cloud, they identify ideal workloads to transform, and we are giving them a simple, secure and managed infrastructure upon which to run those applications, on a platform that is optimized for Spring applications.14
Siki Giunta Vice President Cloud Computing and Hosting Services, CSC
With Java EE being a major platform on enterprise, a good PaaS platform like vFabric is very exciting. This gives a lot of choices for existing Java EE-based applications to move to the cloud.15
Cloud Computing Journal March 20, 2011
Figure 4: The vFabric licensing and pricing model enables enterprises to purchase application infrastructure software based on virtual machines and to pay only for the licenses in use.
The VMware vFabric licensing model is per VM (virtual machine), and is based on average VM usage during a twelve month period rather than the high water-mark, allowing an option for bursting during peak periods.16
InfoQ June 14, 2011
Figure 5: Only VMware allows vFabric license reuse across different types of servers in support of enterprises that need to reconfigure their application infrastructure.
Todays applications are increasingly deployed to pools of virtual infrastructurenot physical machinesmaking the legacy approach of licensing application infrastructure based on physical CPUs decreasingly relevant. On virtualized infrastructure, an application may be running on a server with four CPUs at 9 a.m., but when employees log on during their lunch hour at noon, the application will be automatically moved to a server with 16 CPUs. With vFabric virtual machine-based licensing, enterprises simply license the number of virtual machines to run vFabric components, as needed. Additionally, licensing is based on average use, rather than peak,
which allows for predicted and unpredicted usage spikes without requiring enterprises to license based on the high-water mark of an application workload. For example, if an enterprise licenses 10 vFabric virtual machines, it can burst to use significantly more virtual machines than 10 as long as over a 12-month period, the average usage is 10 or fewer virtual machines. Only VMware allows vFabric license reuse across different types of serversto support application infrastructure reconfiguration often resulting from time-to-market pressures that require releasing applications early and often.
Cloud Foundry streamlines the development, delivery and operations of modern applications, significantly enhancing the ability of developers to deploy, run and scale their applications in cloud environments while embracing the widest range of public and private clouds, high productivity developer languages and frameworks and application services.17
eWeek April 12, 2011
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Build modern, Web and enterprise applications in less than half the time of traditional approaches.18 Deliver cloud-ready applications that are optimized to run on virtual and cloud infrastructure. Enhance application portability between public and private clouds. Overcome relational database bottlenecks and enable real-time data. Increase the reliability, availability and scalability of applications.
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VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform solutions include: Spring - The most popular Java development framework in the world. vFabric Web Server - A high performance, scalable and secure Apache HTTP server. vFabric tc Server - An enterprise version of Apache Tomcat optimized for Spring and vSphere. vFabric RabbitMQ - The leading open source implementation of the Advanced Message QueuingProtocol, it enables a cloud ready approach to messaging. vFabric SQLFire - An in-memory SQL data solution with horizontal scale and lightning-fastperformance. vFabric GemFire - Fast, secure, reliable and scalable access to data in support of modern enterprise and cloud applications. vFabric Data Director - Powers Database as a Service (DBaaS) by securely automating routine tasks, including database provisioning, backup and cloning. vFabric Postgres - A vSphere optimized ACID and ANSI-SQL relational database, it is the first of a broad range of commercial and open source databases to be supported by vFabric Data Director. vFabric Hyperic - Proactive performance management of custom applications throughtransparent visibility into modern applications deployed across physical,virtual and cloud environments. Cloud Foundry - The industrys first open Platform as a Service (PaaS).
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10 VMware Case Study. LinkedIn Ensures Positive User Experience with Spring. 2010. 11 GemStone Systems Press Release. Online Gambling Innovator bet365 Makes the Winning Bet with GemStone. 2009. 12 Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlin, December 2010. 13 Gartner, IDC market data; Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2009; EMC and VMware team analysis SaaS, Private cloud and IaaS savings modeled only for x86 workloads (assumed 80% of spend). 14 CSC Press Release. CSC Trusted Cloud Features VMware vFabric Infrastructure For Java Spring Applications. October 12, 2010. 15 Cloud Computing Journal. Windows Azure vs VMware vFabric. Srinivasan Sundara Rajan, March 20, 2011. 16 InfoQ. VMware Announces vFabric Cloud Application Platform 5, Simplifies Licensing and Deployment. Charles Humble, June 14, 2011. 17 eWeek. VMware Launches Cloud Foundry Open PAAS Solution. Darryl Taft, April 12, 2011. 18 Evans Data Corporation. Spring Usage Guide. 2009. The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartners analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the Leaders quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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