As more and more enterprises adopt cloud infrastructure and services, being able to efficiently manage a variety of resources becomes essential. And many companies are running internal virtualized infrastructure with no easy or cost effective way to transition to the cloud.
ScaleXtreme is providing a solution with its new Advanced Cloud Management offering. The product is designed to help organizations manage their existing infrastructure while adopting private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure and services.
Advanced Cloud Management provides a workflow and orchestration system, autoscaling, cloud access control and multi-cloud management features. The offering also integrates with ScaleXtreme’s server management capabilities, which include server and application monitoring, patch management and job automation. It is designed to provide customers with a broad set of server, application and service management features within one platform.
"Today, enterprises live with the reality of highly heterogeneous IT environments,” said Rob Green, CEO of Dizzion Consulting, a cloud computing services firm. “Any platform that can simplify and unify the systems management burden on IT, and accelerate the provisioning of new cloud services for end users, is very welcome. We have deployed ScaleXtreme in several of our enterprise clients: from managing application scaling in the cloud, to failover and disaster recovery."
Cloud systems management is a fast growing market, and IDC valued the space at $1.2 billion in 2012. That number is expected to jump to more than $4.4 billion by 2017, driven by high demand as enterprise and service provider customers alike move to adopt cloud solutions to handle increasingly complex workloads.
ScaleXtreme’s offering is already in early use by several major customers for their public cloud deployments. These include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terremark Enterprise Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The offering provides major value as companies can use it to manage existing infrastructure while porting their applications to public and private cloud use.
"As enterprises evolve their applications architecture to be increasingly cloud-based, they find themselves having to deal with multiple vendors and management tools,” said Nand Mulchandani, CEO and co-founder of ScaleXtreme. “There's usually no 'clean break' between their legacy applications running on virtualized servers in their data center, and starting to deploy applications in the public cloud. ScaleXtreme helps IT deal with this complexity."
Edited by
Cassandra Tucker
