Agility™ in Action

Adobe Flash, 23 min

The Agility™ in Action demonstrations are split into two separate sections. Section one introduces typical problems that face the non-agile enterprise and section two demonstrates how Agility™ can resolve these problems. You can choose to watch the videos in full or to select particular issues to focus on. Whilst section two builds on section one, it can be watched in isolation.

Section One: Problems Affecting the Non-Agile Enterprise (9 min)

Using a relatively complex simulation of a trading application (Trading Inc.) we demonstrate some of the problems faced by enterprises constrained by inflexible IT infrastructure – we call them non-agile enterprises. These problems are common to many enterprises and are very challenging to solve.

  1. Introduction to problems facing the non-agile enterprise (4 min)
  2. The problem of poor configuration (2 min)
  3. The problem of unexpected high demand (1 min)
  4. The problem of catastrophic failure (1 min)
  5. Conclusions

Section Two: Agility™ Enabling the Agile Enterprise (14 min)

Given the problems it is facing (as a non-agile enterprise), Trading Inc. deploys Agility™ and we demonstrate how matters are resolved. We illustrate how Agility™ can utilise the policy and service requirements of different peers within the enterprise to dynamically deploy a system and show Agility™ sensing changes to the application environment and threats to service requirements. Finally, we demonstrate Agility™ responding to these threats by dynamically provisioning and monitoring the system, all within the bounds of defined organisational policy.

  1. Introduction to Agility™ (6 min)
  2. Agility™ solves the poor configuration problem (2 min)
  3. Agility™ solves the unexpected high demand problem (3 min)
  4. Agility™ solves the catastrophic failure problem (2 min)
  5. Conclusions

Above videos are also available for download in Microsoft Windows Media format: