Today we are announcing an important relationship with Eucalyptus to deliver a complete solution for people building cloud environments. Eucalyptus turns data center resources such as machines, networks, and storage systems into a “cloud” that is controlled and customized by local IT.
We are doing this because many of our customers are curious about cloud but cannot use the existing public consoles: they lack controls like authorization, governance as to what kind of workloads, standardization of images, policies for proper configuration, and there’s no life cycle management to tell you who ordered what and for how long.
For example: If you’ve ever tried to break up the Amazon monthly bill into different cost centers, you need newScale. If you are trying to figure who owns an instance or storage or IP address, you need newScale. If you want to prevent your app development from going underground with their cloud servers, you need newScale. If you want to establish configuration standards or minimum stack standards (like virus protection should be ON), you could use newScale.
In fact Self-service is essential for any public or private cloud, and an IT Service Catalog is a requirement for the management of next generation data center and cloud environments.
Amazon has redefined the expectations and pricing for data center services. Make no mistake, they are competition for enterprise IT. Internal IT departments must get ahead of this challenge, by defining their own Service Catalog, introducing self-service, and deploying their own on-premise cloud.
Here are a couple of screen shots from our cloud / virtualization catalog. First, I have drilled down to a specific category and can compare the different offers. Tier 3 is cloud computing. This comparison table helps me figure out the best environment.I can then drill down into a specific overview. From there, you get guides, configuration wizards and a form.
Once submitted, we track the lifecycle, costs, etc and of course pass it to Eucalyptus for provisioning.
It's wicked awesome; our customer can deploy a cloud operating model in a day. My invitation is: get started, and try it out.
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