1. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Eliminating the Barriers: Bringing z/VM Administration to the 21st Century Rich Smrcina Velocity Software, Inc. WAVV 2010

2. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Agenda Administration of z/VM today Tasks required Challenges from other platforms Change of workforce Cloud Computing Cloud Enablement Introducing zPRO Administration of z/VM from a web browser Slide show/Demo

3. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Administration of z/VM Today Tasks Required - Common to all operating systems Hardware management/Device allocation Managing users Debugging problems Automating repetitive functions (toolbox) Performance management/tuning Planning future upgrades (hardware and software) Seemingly endless meetings

4. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Administration of z/VM Today Systems Programmers today typically have many years of experience Difficult to duplicate Hard to find the right mix Unfortunate when disconnect occurs Enterprises doing more with less Potentially Fewer people and/or Longer hours Stretching the lifetime of their systems

5. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Administration of z/VM Today Challenges from Other Platforms Windows – VMWare, VirtualBox, KVM Power (System p, System i) – POWERVM With or without virtualization these platforms compete for mindshare They're pervasive They're intuitive They're ingrained Graphical interfaces are used to represent system objects and objectives

6. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Cloud Computing What is a “Cloud” The cloud is a set of services and technologies that enable the delivery of computing services over the Internet in real-time, allowing end- users instant access to data and applications from any device with Internet access. 1 Cloud is categorized into three areas Software-as-a-Service – SaaS – or Cloud Applications Platform-as-a-Service – PaaS  Tools to build web based apps over the internet Infrastructure-as-a-Service – IaaS  Access remote systems or middleware over the internet, enabling cloud applications 1 http://www.novell.com/cloud/faq.html

7. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Cloud Computing Can be difficult to define, but most solutions will offer Elasticity and Scalability Chargeback (or pay-as-you-go) Service Level Agreements Reduced Costs Most certainly includes virtualization “Private Cloud” is internalized Reducing issues related to public cloud use eg: Loss of control of data, security, regulatory compliance “Private Cloud, Defined”, Paul Rubens, January 27, 2010 http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3861191/Private-Cloud-Defined.htm

8. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Cloud Computing Cloud Applications (or SaaS) Google (Gmail, Google Docs) Salesforce.com, SugarCRM Professional Zoho Office Technological advances HTML, Java, java script, network speed, new development platforms Give the browser a desktop look and feel http://www.novell.com/cloud/faq.html

9. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Cloud Enablement An easy, convenient way to realize the benefits of cloud z/VM plays a pivotal role Administration is tied to 3270 screens Substantial number of commands Knowledge.... Introducing zPRO

10. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Introducing zPRO zPRO: Complete Systems Management and Cloud Enablement for z/VM and Linux on System z Provides web based administration for z/VM Including interfaces to RACF, Dirmaint and SFS A native z/VM application Requires no outboard applications or servers A feature of zVPS

11. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Introducing zPRO Features provided Systems management of z/VM Cloning capabilities for guest machines Including Linux, Open Solaris, z/VSE, CMS Gold Image used as basis of cloning process  Dirmaint is a prereq RACF management interface Complete z/VM Help facility

12. Copyright 2010 Velocity Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Initial logon page

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