Challenge

Today, IT leadership must rethink the relationships between "apps" and "ops" and the tools to ensure deployment speed and control as part of a low-overhead deployment model. While no one questions development teams or other business units know their needs best, this demand has to articulate itself in a given cost and consistency framework.

On-Demand IT Services

While the eCloudManager Infrastructure and SAP Editions enable massive VM and virtual landscape cloning and simple monitoring, the provisioning and matching with business needs is accomplished with a self-service portal that allows internal business clients or application development teams to directly require the systems they need, while ensuring the governance and billing/metering of the services to stay in the defined scope. This blends on-demand speed and with long-term control and allows the whole company to make the most of the new eCloud efficiencies.

Features

Cloud landscapes exposed to business clients in a portal

Storage-assisted provisioning

Leveraging eCloudManager's rapid provisioning of large systems

Integrated Metering and Billing

APIs for integration into existing infrastructure
Portal for cloud administrators
Portal login for cloud users
Supports Active Directory Users

Customizable cost calculation formula

Multi-tier landscape editor

Managing template consistency across multiple infrastructures

Policy based workload placement

Full control over provisioned systems (start, stop, restart, suspend, destroy)

On-Demand IT Services

The eCloudManager Self-Service Edition is currently in a closed-beta stage of development and is expected to be released for productive use in Q1 of 2010. If you would like to participate in this beta program please contact us here.