Cloud Management

Maximize the value of cloud computing by ensuring reliable services and easily leveraging infrastructure elasticity.

Delivering capacity that can rapidly and reliably adapt (i.e. both scale up and down) to dynamic business demands is critical to cloud services implementation. Private and public cloud services providers must be able to seamlessly provision resources whenever a new business application or customer instance is requested by their users. Similarly, they need to cost-effectively and securely allocate resources and optimize workload placement on a continuous basis. The need for an efficient, agile and reliable capacity planning is magnified in such an environment.

CAPLAN FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

Caplan benefits both private and public cloud providers in ensuring their ability to provide flexible and reliable services against highly variable demands. Caplan also directly benefits cloud users by allowing them to take advantage of the flexibility of cloud services to realize relevant cost savings.

Caplan provides:

  • Support for any cloud infrastructure technology and integration with any self-provisioning portal
  • Optimal allocation of workloads and applications on their (private or hybrid) cloud infrastructure, also including resources provided by third-party or vendor public clouds
  • Safe optimization of private cloud infrastructure on a continuous basis, in order to contain costs while ensuring that SLAs are met
  • Support for users and customers to easily provision resources from self-provisioning portals and effectively leverage the elasticity and efficiency of cloud infrastructures
  • Advanced cost models, based on multiple accounting strategies, to implement chargeback processes