IBM Showcase
Value-Added Solutions
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API Management: Integration & Convergence with SOA

IBM WebSphere for SOA

IBM Workload Deployer
(formerly named WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance)


HHG presentation:
Real World Experiences with
IBM Workload Deployer at
IMPACT April 11-15 Las Vegas
Building the enterprise private cloud
IBM Workload Deployer (formerly named WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance) gives those enterprises that have made a commitment to WebSphere software the ability to create and manage an infrastructure virtualization in a private cloud to support fast, accurate and repeatable deployments of complex topologies of WebSphere software products. These "bring-your-own-cloud" private clouds can be built on top of VMware, PowerVM or z/Linux. Furthermore, IBM Workload Deployer supports mixed clouds across all three platforms.
The IBM Workload Deployer dispenses IBM's best-practice packaging of Hypervisor Editions for key IBM WebSphere products, including: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Portal and DB2. Additionally, it is possible to create custom Hypervisor Editions of virtually any UNIX-based application for provisioning and management from the CloudBurst Appliance.
As enterprise IT is clearly moving to a hybrid cloud model where some enterprise services are moved to the off-premise cloud while mission-critical and highly secure applications stay within the corporate data center, IBM Workload Deployer provides many of the resource advantages of cloud computing to the corporate data center:
Another advantage of the WCA is that the move to cloud computing will require radical change within existing IT management infrastructure processes. The CloudBurst Appliance provides demonstrated financial payback within months for enterprises that manage complex WebSphere environments. Implementation of WCA allows IT infrastructure and IT engineering groups to extend their processes to the technologies of cloud computing within the controlled environment of their own data centers before implementing secure cloud computing into hybrid on-premise/off-premise clouds.
Haddon Hill Group has a team of experts dedicated to helping enterprise customers quickly implement private clouds in complex and highly secure environments. Our experience includes implementing several first-of-its-kind deployments in highly secure environments, which included a mix of custom Hypervisor Editions created by HHG engineers, Integration with Rational Build Forge for one-click automated custom application provisioning, as well as OS customization to meet customer-specific security and operational requirements.
Presently, HHG is the only IBM business partner that has experience with IBM Workload Deployer across all three supported platforms: VMware, PowerVM and zSeries, as well as creating custom Hypervisor Editions for all three platforms.
IBM Workload Deployer can be very quickly implemented as a "drop-in" to support stand alone WebSphere development teams, however the most value to enterprise customers is in the creation of enterprise-class private clouds. HHG maintains a IBM Workload Deployer private cloud on both VMware and pSeries and our engineers can provide in-depth, live demonstrations to our client's engineering team, answering the detailed technical, operational and managerial questions which must be addressed to successfully implement cloud computing within a complex enterprise IT environment.
We can provide immediate customer-specific demonstration proofs of concept on our own infrastructure. HHG also has a IBM Workload Deployer quick start package of à la carte services so that our clients can immediately implement WCA on pSeries, PowerVM-based as well as on zSeries z/VM and zLinux deployments to immediately begin capturing the value of private cloud computing.

HHG à la carte Private Cloud Implementation Services

Business, Engineering and Process Requirements/Constraints with Critical Success Factors

Financial Justification

Initial Design

Create Initial Patterns and Images along with Client-Specific Install Scripts or Hypervisor Editions

IT Process Design, Documentation and Knowledge Transfer

Third-Party and Custom Application Hypervisor Creation and Integration

Implantation Plan for IBM Workload Deployer and Infrastructure Software Release Levels

Customization for Client's Policy and Standard Operating Environment

Rollout Plan across Client's Environments

Sub-Capacity Licensing

Technical Project Management for Migration and IBM Workload Deployer Deployment