Hosting Providers / System Integrators / Service Providers
Needs
- Deliver hosting, infrastructure, and technical application management support services
- Make enterprise applications easy to deliver and easy to consume while also enabling unlimited elasticity and scalability
- Achieve a high level of automation in the provisioning of enterprise application landscapes for customers (error handling, testing, development, QA purposes)
- Be able to bill customers based on the resources that they have consumed
- Deliver customer-friendly contract terms & lengths, and reduce costs for transition phase
eCloudManager Benefits
- Enable IT as a Service (Landscape as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service)
- Rapid provisioning of infrastructure resources as well as complete enterprise application landscapes in minutes
- Use of last-known-good system templates to constantly deliver the latest and highest quality systems (of course also “old” templates possible)
- Monitoring that includes network, storage, compute and SAP inputs, scalable to single VM, VL, storage array or complete data center
- Self-Service portal for end users for on-demand consumption of ready-to-run enterprise applications and other services
- Granular metering and billing for all monitored resources (storage, compute, network, application)
IT Departments of Large Companies
Needs
- Move enterprise applications to the private cloud
- Enable the fast provisioning and consumption of enterprise applications
- Achieve IT automation, standardization and cost optimization
- Maintain a secure and reliable environment with well-tested systems
- Enable internal business clients to provision their own enterprise app systems
eCloudManager Benefits
- Platform for enterprise private cloud enablement
- Highly efficient IT organization based on stack-wide monitoring and system administration
- Cut development time of mission-critical applications based on rapid prototyping and testing by an order of magnitude, while increasing support for business
- Use of custom system templates to deliver latest preconfigured systems to global operation
- High availability of training/demo/PoC/test/QA systems that can include company business data for fast rollout and easy app consumption
- Self-Service portal for controlled / latest systems & configurations with least interaction of central team
Small and Medium Sized Companies
Needs
- Move towards application virtualization without large investments
- Cut development time of mission-critical applications
- Achieve IT automation, standardization and cost optimization
eCloudManager Benefits
- Road to virtualization through rapid provisioning of enterprise application landscapes using advanced storage features
- Full IT-stack integration for data center-wide monitoring (from storage to hypervisor to application)
- Use of custom system templates for company-wide consistency
- Enterprise application aware platform for efficient app monitoring
- Customizable rule-based policy engine for error discovery and error handling