Self-service platform and cloud image template management for easy software delivery to Citrix CloudPlatform.

1. Self-Service and Image Template Management
UShareSoft UForge
James Weir
CTO
UShareSoft
www.usharesoft.com
PARTNER

2. Industry Problem
IaaS Cloud Images:
● Built manually
● No software governance
● Rebuild for each cloud
environment
● Difficult to collaborate and share
● Opaque image proliferation
To harness the full agility of cloud, software onboarding
must be self-service and automated

3. Model-Driven Templates
Modeling allows innovation around tooling and automation

4. UForge: Image Template Management Platform
Template Factory App Store Front
Self-Service + Automation Collaboration & Sharing, One-Click Run

5. UForge Benefits
● Control your software with private
catalog and software governance
● Implement your hybrid cloud strategy
with an OS and hypervisor agnostic
platform
● Model your software.
Clone, Share and Collaborate
● Automate and “build to order” with
100% APIs
● Reduce template creation by 80% and
50x gain on configuration automation

6. Solution Overview with Citrix CloudPlatform
Self-Service Self-Service
Cost
Image Factory IaaS Services Flexibility
Citrix CloudPlatform End-To-End
Powered by Apache CloudStack
Now part of the Apache Software Foundation Incubator Program
Cloud Automation
“Turnkey, fast, simple software delivery to Citrix CloudPlatform”

7. Building Your Cloud Platform
● Integrated with
CloudPlatform
● App Store features
complimenting
CloudPortal
● Build and maintain
your image library
● Supporting all
hypervisors
● APIs allowing service
mash-up

8. UForge Key Features
Notifications
Browse and Search
Admin Console
Comments & Ratings
User Access Control
Applications On-Demand
OS & Project Catalog
Publish Access Rights
Traceability and Statistics
Clone and Extend Templates Private Workspace
Share Templates with Others Build and Maintain Templates
Knowledge Sharing OS and Hypervisor Agnostic
One-click Generate
Automatic OS Updates
JeOS Profiling

9. Customer Testimonials & News
“We've just created our own marketplace for IT “UForge makes it much easier for simpler for us to support
providing end users
applications using UForge … heterogenous IT environments: we simply model once and
with an easy-to-use catalog of applications." deliver anywhere."
Raphael Ferreira, CEO, eNovance, June 2012 Nobuhiro Seki, President and CEO, Six Apart, June 2012
“... promisingsolution for managing “...products that promise to make the
virtual machine appliances. We anticipate lives of IT admins a little easier by
a number of advantages including … the ability cutting engineering costs and
to … control governance processes." speeding time to value."
Alexandre Lefebvre, Group Leader, FT, January Dana Gardner, Briefings Direct,
2010 February 2010
“With UForge, we will ... enable our customers to IDC lists UShareSoft in top 3 Linux
onboard software more easily to our Appliance Platforms
USiZE netXCloud offering." IDC, Worldwide Software Appliance
Jun Kawamura, General Manager, Cloud 2010–2014 Forecast, July 2010
Integration Dept., SCSK, June 2012

10. CASE STUDY: Orange Suisse Internal IT
Challenges & opportunities
Provide a solution for managing software images for CloudStack
Solution Ops
OS Repos
Templates
CloudStack
OS Team SW QA
Result
Complete Self-Service and Automation of Software Delivery
PARTNER

11. How to get started
● Access UForge http://www.usharesoft.com/downloads
> Get a FREE Online Account
> Register for a 30-day Onsite Trial
> Get your own white-labelled App Store
● Learn more http://www.usharesoft.com/resources
> Download the Datasheets
> Watch our videos and tutorials
“Turnkey, fast, simple software delivery to Citrix CloudPlatform”