TOSCA Value for CxOs 1 st draft outline for feedback by TOSCA TC members Editors: Karsten Beins (Fujitsu), Peter Gibbels (HP), Paul Lipton (CA Technologies), Derek Palma (Vnomic), Matt Rutkowski (IBM) Date:

TOSCA is an important new open cloud standard, supported by a large and growing number of international industry leaders and organizations It can help with some cloud application challenges not well addressed today 1.Speed and accuracy for creating and moving apps to Cloud TOSCA enables vendors and experts to capture and automate their knowledge for rapid implementation and deployment Leverage to automate the entire technology stack 2.Business and IT change agility Complete lifecycle automation of software services that can adapt rapidly to any change while ensuring Integrity, Security and Compliance Decoupling application requirements from infrastructure capabilities 3.Preserve choice of Cloud vendor, platform, and technology TOSCA enables flexible applications deployment, migration, integration on different Clouds while maintaining needed functionality, quality, manageability TOSCA is a recognized, OASIS industry standard, also aligned with various open source projects (e.g., OpenStack, Cloudify, Eclipse) TOSCA Introduction (to CIOs) Such as: ASG Software, Axway, CA Technologies, China Internet Network Information Center, Cisco, Citrix, CloudSoft, EMC, FastConnect SAS, Fujitsu, GigaSpaces, Google, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp, Nokia, Primeton, Red Hat, SAP, Software AG, VCE, Vnomic, WSO2, Yaana, Zenoss

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TOPICS FOR THE OFFICE OF THE CTO AND ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTS ORG

Overview of Challenges How do I optimize time-to-value for creating and moving apps to Cloud? How do I leverage domain expert knowledge and best practices as cloud applications become more complex? How can I support business and IT change agility while keeping IT costs balanced? How do I scale to support growing business? How do I keep Development & Operations aligned while optimizing time-to-value and continuous delivery of cloud applications? How do I preserve choice of Cloud vendor, platform and technology?

How do I optimize time-to-value for creating and moving apps to Cloud? Accelerate IT learning curve while migrating existing enterprise applications to the Cloud – Leverage best internal & external expertise to prevent costly trial and error – Rapidly unleash the business benefit potential of Cloud Use of existing TOSCA models – Bundling of application products with TOSCA model ready-to-use – Best practices composed by communities, consultants, cloud service providers leveraging application lifecycle management expertise of recognized industry experts – OASIS TOSCA guidelines standardize a high quality – Allows rapid deployment of applications

How do I leverage domain expert knowledge and best practices as cloud apps become more complex? Powerful new mechanism to capture and leverage expert knowledge – ISV, System Integrators, infrastructure vendors, universities, open contributors (e.g. OpenStack, Eclipse, Dev communities) – Marketplaces / libraries for cloud application models structured as TOSCA content Preserve and leverage existing investments in scripts, workflows, etc. – TOSCA enforces reusability by a structured development and delivery approach Start today to leverage TOSCA principles and methodologies in your enterprise architect community

How can I support business and IT change agility while keeping IT costs balanced? TOSCA contributes to reduced IT costs by supporting transformation to the Cloud Dynamically adapt to changing business conditions TOSCA enables choice of cloud service providers incl. private/managed/public clouds TOSCA supports necessary governance of IT supply chain while providing needed IT agility to Lines-of- Business

How do I scale to support growing business? Agile business needs to adapt to changing conditions rapidly – Seasonal changes – Special / unforeseeable events – Business growth / shrink – Merger & Acquisition, divestiture  TOSCA is revolutionizing change management  Enable & support full automation of planned & unplanned changes  Adopt, harmonize and modernize the common IT standards, governance, compliance regulations after M&A  Automate the b2b integration for new business partner onboarding  Accelerate agile lifecycle iterations along the Dev-Test-QA-Production chain  Leverage other experts’ documentation, automated solutions and tools for modeling & orchestration  Decoupling application requirements from infrastructure capabilities

How do I keep Development & Operations aligned while optimizing time-to-value and continuous delivery of cloud applications? OASIS TOSCA is the most comprehensive cloud application-centric open standard TOSCA model unified view minimizes the impact of change and maximizes productivity while simplifying DevOps across all environments TOSCA enables transparency and understanding of applications and their dependencies across multiple clouds and throughout their lifecycle TOSCA-based comparison and automation of actual/target configurations supports governance, risk and compliance management

How do I preserve choice of Cloud vendor, platform and technology? TOSCA as an Open Standard offers Portable service description Encapsulation of best practices in a provider neutral fashion Modular and composable approach Benefits Choices of cloud service providers Flexibility to change cloud service providers over time Interoperability across multiple cloud service providers High quality of service through re-use and adaptability Choice of service quality and price

ISV, System Integrators, Infrastructure Vendors, Enterprises, Universities, Open Contributors Architects and Developers Cloud Providers as part of IT Supply Chain Application Modeling & Testing Tools TOSCA Conceptual Open Ecosystem Cloud Orchestrators Cloud A Cloud C Cloud B TOSCA Marketplaces / Libraries Enabling choice for cloud customers … aligning with all involved roles / processes 12 Cloud Customers

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