Flexible software delivery options

White paper
November 2009

Leveraging the cloud to transform

software delivery.
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Confusing the cloud matter

Contents The cloud computing phenomenon is a hot topic that has captured the interest
of many technology organizations, from personal computer manufacturers to
2 Confusing the cloud matter virtualization application developers. As a result, organizations have been using
2 Increasing pressures from the term “cloud” to describe several, often contrasting, computing concepts —
many directions leaving many members of the IT community confused as to what cloud computing
3 Rising above the challenges actually is and why they should care.
with new delivery models
6 Standardizing and centraliz­ Although we can’t interpret every organization’s understanding or use of cloud
ing application lifecycle computing, what we can and will do is shine a light on how the cloud can be
management used to streamline and enhance the work of software developers and delivery
8 Concluding thoughts on the
professionals. In this white paper, we will explain how the cloud and IBM can
cloud
help you overcome challenges, ensure security, quickly meet goals and improve
efficiency in your software delivery environment.

Increasing pressures from many directions

The world is becoming increasingly instrumented, interconnected and intelligent
because of smarter products. In turn, software development and delivery teams
are being asked to respond to changes in the marketplace more quickly—but with
fewer resources and while delivering more value.

Moreover, geographically dispersed teams are being pressured to continually

deliver new and innovative products to the marketplace faster and faster as
developers and delivery professionals struggle to create quality software quickly
and efficiently. Developers and delivery professionals in smaller organizations
must wear multiple hats — performing administrative duties in addition to man-
aging an ever-expanding technology infrastructure that supports an increasing
number of business responsibilities. As a result, IT staffs spend more time main-
taining the technology environment and less time developing applications.
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In addition, many developers, delivery professionals and IT managers are

Highlights
challenged with:

• Reducing the capital and operational expense of IT systems and resources.

• Managing time and cost configurations.
• Better managing and increasing the utilization of a sprawling IT environ-
ment caused by years of software investments.
• Quickly deploying IT assets to support rapidly changing and new project needs.
• Governing software best practices for corporate governance and dealing with
concerns regarding regulatory and security compliance.

Rising above the challenges with new delivery models

Rational Software Delivery Services To overcome these obstacles, developers and delivery professionals need new ways
for Cloud Computing provides to work more efficiently. IT managers must leverage dynamic, agile infrastructures
comprehensive application lifecycle to respond to rapid marketplace changes and evolving business requirements.
management that you can provision To address the needs of today’s demanding software and delivery expecta-
as a service on the cloud. tions, IBM is now offering IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud
Computing. This capability set provides comprehensive application lifecycle
management (ALM), which you can provision as a service on the cloud. These
services provide you with tooling specifically designed to handle different
workloads and development and delivery activities and are based on the IBM
Jazz™ initiative to transform software delivery by making it more collaborative,
productive and transparent.

Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing provides a number of

benefits to organizations.

Lower deployment costs

The services enable users to provision IBM software on the cloud only when
it is needed — like a lease or rental — significantly reducing software licens-
ing costs. IBM estimates that these savings can improve capital utilization by
75 percent.
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Simplify and streamline large software deployments

What is the Jazz platform?
Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing includes best
practices and proven methodologies to help organizations improve internal
The IBM Jazz technology plat-
processes and the efficiency of test environments. IBM research has shown
form is designed for collaborative
the services to reduce IT labor costs by more than 50 percent as a result of
software delivery. Exceptionally
fewer labor hours spent on test-environment configuration, operations, man-
attuned to global and distributed
agement and monitoring.
teams, Jazz is designed to trans-
form how people work together to
Improve resource utilization and flexibility
build software, making software
By providing scalability and on demand provisioning, Rational Software
delivery more collaborative, pro-
Delivery Services for Cloud Computing improves server and resource utili-
ductive and transparent. You can
zation, thereby reducing administrative costs and labor. To boost software
think of the Jazz platform as an
utilization, these services support virtualization, standardization, automa-
extensible framework that dynami-
tion and self-service provisioning.
cally integrates and synchronizes
people, processes and assets Respond faster to organizational demands
associated with software develop- Organizations can speed time to market for new applications and technology
ment and delivery projects. using Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing. Developers
and delivery professionals can quickly acquire, install, configure and manage
environments needed to develop, test, pilot and deploy applications — and then
break down the environments just as quickly when they’re no longer needed.

Optimized to run in private cloud environments, Rational Software Delivery

Services for Cloud Computing enables you to easily provision software deliv-
ery capabilities as preconfigured services in the cloud in just minutes. When
running in the virtual server environment, those services can then leverage
the elastic computing capabilities of the environment, including load testing
or builds. Examples of services on the cloud include collaborative application
management, quality management, test management, test lab management,
requirements definition and management, performance measurement and
management, and delivery automation.
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Highlights You can provision temporary, virtual images of IBM Rational® offerings in a
cloud as you need them in just minutes — versus days or weeks to implement
software in a traditional manner — to enable your teams to:

• Collaborate.
• Manage quality.
• Manage test activities.
• Build.
• Measure and manage performance.
• Report.
• Manage assets.
• Manage comprehensive portfolios.
• Manage Web application security.

Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing is based on IBM Smart
Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud—a security-rich, dynamically
provisioned and scaled run-time virtual server environment. Delivered together,
Rational Software Delivery Services these services provide nearly everything you need to develop and test applica-
for Cloud Computing is based on tions on a private cloud while helping developers, delivery professionals, testers
IBM Smart Business Development and IT managers enhance their software development and delivery capabilities.
and Test on the IBM Cloud—a Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud integrates with software
security-rich, dynamically provi- delivery services and solutions from IBM to provide full ALM, which can be provi-
sioned and scaled run-time virtual
sioned as a service on the cloud.
server environment.
You can also leverage Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing
in the IBM Smart Business Development and Test public cloud or engage IBM
Global Technology Services to deliver the services in a private cloud on your
premises with special cloud-based enablement services.
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Highlights Why leverage Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing?

• Set up and tear down development and test environments rapidly

• Learn how to use the cloud faster
• Count on IBM support from your day one launch through project completion
• Leverage prescriptive best practices
• Customize environments on the fly to meet your specific needs
• Gain peace of mind with enhanced application-level security

Standardizing and centralizing application lifecycle management

Cloud services enable development Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing provides a compre-
and delivery teams to quickly gain the hensive, “instant on” collaborative environment for software and systems
benefits of a collaborative application delivery in enterprises. The services enable development and delivery teams
lifecycle management environment to instantly gain the benefits of an integrated collaborative application lifecycle
through self-service provisioning management environment through self-service provisioning of server prod-
of server products. ucts. As a result, teams can have development and delivery products up and
running in minutes, and they can leverage the integrated products from the
Rational suite and the Jazz platform for better collaboration.

Rational Software Delivery Services In addition, Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing dra-
for Cloud Computing dramatically matically reduces the up-front costs of deploying an ALM platform. Using
reduces the up-front costs of integrated, out-of-the-box virtual images based on best practices reduces labor
deploying an ALM platform. and configuration costs. This can ultimately lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
by reducing installation costs traditionally associated with new development
and delivery projects.
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Further reducing TCO and increasing flexibility, Rational Software Delivery

Highlights
Services for Cloud Computing increases utilization of IT resources through a
virtualized build, development and test infrastructure and dynamic resource
Using Rational Software Delivery provisioning. By using IBM services, organizations can better control costs,
Services for Cloud Computing, enhance quality management and improve performance monitoring — reducing
organizations can ultimately reduce risk and driving better governance via standardized services in a centralized
risk and drive better governance via development and test cloud.
standardized services in a centralized
development and test cloud. Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing offers real value
differentiators — such as industry standards and best practice methodologies —
that developers, delivery professionals and IT managers can leverage. The
IBM Rational Lab Services team can help can help identify and target the best
workloads to deploy to the cloud and recognize areas where your organization
The capability set supports industry will likely achieve the greatest ROI. The team can also help by providing met-
standards and offers methodologies rics and assessments via systematic approaches — delivered in the Measured
based on best practices. Capability Improvement Framework from IBM — to help drive greater value in
software development and delivery. Moreover, you can leverage the breadth
of knowledge of the IBM Global Technology Services group to speed setup and
management of private cloud implementations.

A group of major financial institutions was struggling to provide resources to

application developers and delivery professionals to keep up with demand for
improved, innovative services. Increasing costs, manual processes, limited vis-
ibility into processes and collaboration via telephone all made it difficult to keep
up with and support their organizations’ needs. Working with IBM, these institu-
tions gained a virtual loaner program within an IBM cloud computing center.
They can now deploy an enterprise cloud to dynamically manage development
and delivery resources and improve utilization of the infrastructure.
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