Jagadish Changavi CoFounder

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Agenda

• Open Source Evolution
• Open Source Enterprise Management
• The Solution
• The Technology
• Call for Action

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Enterprise Management Open Source Evolution

• First Wave Operating System
• Linux
• Second Wave Infrastructure
• Web Servers, Database, Application Servers
• Third Wave Applications
• ERP, Business Intelligence, Project Management..
• Fourth Wave Management
• IT Management, Compliance, Application
  Deployment/Life Cycle Management

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IT Management Open Source Advantage

• Commercial Product Liabilities
• High total cost
• Software can reach 7 figures
• High system administration overhead
• Long deployment times
• Months to years before value achieved
• Shelf ware
• Inflexible, monolithic
• Black box applications
• Restrictive frameworks
• Difficult to use
• Overly complex overkill for 80 of the market
• Feature, data overload
• Too expensive to buy and maintain

• Open Source Attributes
• Lower cost
• No/low cost software
• Deployment only what you need
• Scalability pay once only
• Management support less complex
  implementations
• More flexible / reliable
• Configurable, open components
• Transparent, modifiable source code
• No vendor lock-in
• Thousands of users
• Well suited to heterogeneous management
  environments
• Open interfaces
• Easily customized
• Ideal manager of managers platform

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7B NSM Market Where all this money goes?
Source Gartner, 2003
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The Solution Open EMS

• Need for Open Source Enterprise IT Management
• deploying, monitoring and managing an
  organizations IT infrastructure
• Completely flexible to address dynamic nature of
  open source
• Align with ever changing business environment
• Completely extensible
• Integrate with Proprietary and other Open Source
  solutions
• Optimize IT
• Automatically identify and fix performance and
  other problems as they happen (Self tuning)
• Dynamic allocation of resources when needed,
  where needed

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Drivers for Open Source EMS

• Open source adoption in enterprises is exploding
• By 2010, Global 2000 companies will consider
  open-source products in 80 of their
  infrastructure-focused software investments and
  25 of their business software investments.
• Next wave for Open Source Enterprise IT
  Management
• Open Source IT Management solutions are poised
  for mainstream adoption in the 7 billion IT
  Management market
• Fast Lane to True Business Alignment is Open
  Source
• According to an unpublished report, 29 of CIOs
  and Senior IT managers using HP, IBM, CA and BMC
  would consider switching to open source software
  for IT management

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Open EMS Benefits

• Improved IT availability and performance
• More satisfied end-users and customers
• Fast problem resolution
• More productive IT staff
• Improved capacity planning

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Open EMS Benefits

• Deploy, monitor and manage an organizations
  complete IT infrastructure
• Optimize IT
• Completely flexible to address dynamic nature of
  business
• Completely extensible
• Can be easily integrated into other applications
• Deploy only what is needed
• Service Discovery

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Architectural Goals

• Deliver next generation Enterprise Management
  infrastructure as a set of composable services
• To enable enterprises to provision new management
  services without huge migration and deployment
  costs
• New services can be cataloged, provisioned, and
  managed through same and consistent interface
• Plug and Play Deployment
• Deploy services as and when required
• Ease of extensibility
• Unlimited Scaleability and Reliability
• Fault tolerant services

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Open EMS ArchitectureComposable Services
Framework
Open EMS Integration Platform
Composable Service Framework
Policy Engine
Rules Engine
Event Correlation Engine
Notification Services
Repository Services
Enterprise Event Bus
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Feature Scorecard

• Systems and Applications Monitoring
• End-to-end monitoring
• Self-monitoring and tuning
• Performance and availability monitoring
• Integrate with Nagios/Groundworks and other
  monitoring tools
• Configuration Description and Life Cycle
  Management
• Software and hardware configurations
• Patch Management and Deployment
• Compatibility knowledge base
• Application Provisioning and Deployment
• Policy based provisioning based on business needs
• Intelligent Event Correlation
• facilitates analysis of network, system,
  application, database, security, and storage
  event information to isolate root causes from
  multiple related events

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Feature Scorecard

• Management Repository
• maintains IT asset status information.
• Associates assets with the business services they
  support, enabling the correlation of
  heterogeneous and cross-stack infrastructure
  events to determine business impact as well as
  the optimization of repair efforts.
• Command Center
• Delivers a unified, correlated, and prioritized
  view of events from networks, systems,
  applications, databases, security and storage.
• Provides a single, customizable console with
  advanced visualization so that relevant
  information is shown in context and non-critical
  information is filtered out
• Virtual Machine management
• Monitor Virtual Machines
• Policy based provisioning of Virtual Machines

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Feature Scorecard

• Asset and Capacity Management
• Policy based management and provisioning of IT
  assets
• Software, hardware, licenses
• Rules and Policy Based Notifications
• Pub-Sub notifications
• creates alerts, using intelligent event
  filtering, that escalate only critical issues for
  IT management's attention and action.
• Simplifies and automates notification, sending
  alerts via IM, pager, text messaging, phone,
  email, or wireless device
• Rules libraries for critical aspects of IT
  Management
• Reporting
• Executive summaries
• Service level reporting
• Custom reporting

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Milestones

• Mid Jan, 2006 Launch of openems.org website,
  mailing list, wiki
• Feb 15th, 2006 Use Case, Functional and
  Architectural documents available on openems.org
  web site
• End March 2006 Alpha release of Open EMS code
  base developed by Pointgain will be available at
  the website
• June 2006 First release of Open EMS platform

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About Pointgain

• Leader in Open Source technology research and
  development
• Decade of experience in delivering open source
  solutions
• Researched and developed an open source based
  industrial strength grid computing platform for
  one of its customer
• Large in house skills in enterprise management
  and decades of on job experience with data
  center operations
• Has been working on solving the complex data
  center automation problems for number of years
  and taking lead to contribute our research and
  experience into a production quality, customer
  ready open source enterprise management platform

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Call for Action

• Join the OpenEMS community and help simplify the
  complexity of IT
• Enterprise and End-user Sponsorship is welcome

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Thank you
Web
pointgain.com/openems openems.org
Email info_at_pointgain.com
Pointgain Corporation 4643 Batten Way San Jose,
CA 95135 USA phone [phone]
Pointgain India Private Limited 4 100 Feet Ring
Road B.T.M Layout, Phase II Bangalore 560
076 India phone [phone]