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Cloud adoption is being driven by its business value, its ability to help drive
innovation, reduce time to market for new services, and its capability to
extend self-service applications and services to lines of business users. Cloud
adoption enhances the business ability to respond rapidly to ever changing
business requirements and priorities, and to innovate; - and thus go to market
with enhanced differentiation and competitiveness.
Clearly, there is a need for a platform that enables the SPs, MSPs and SIs to
manage all types of services across multiple cloud service providers, read
multi-cloud. Faced with this unprecedented opportunity, SPs have two high
level options: build or buy a multi-cloud platform.
We have seen a number of SPs and SIs spending tens of millions of dollars in an
effort to build a platform to meet the demands of their constituents only to
look outside for an enablement solution later. The major reason behind this is
that technology is changing at such a fast pace that it is next to impossible for
SPs to keep up with the vast number of cloud services (XaaS) that are
becoming available. Also, newer capabilities are being added continually by the
cloud services providers (CSPs): be it public cloud providers such as AWS,
Microsoft Azure or private cloud providers such as VMware, OpenStack, and
IBM Bluemix, not to mention the hybrid cloud services offered by some of the
same vendors.
Cloud Governance
The Jamcracker platform releases that have happened over last two years
provide a very robust set of capabilities including support for:
Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB): Enabling the brokering of any type of service
SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, XaaS.
Microsoft CSP: CSP Direct and Indirect partner support for Microsoft Azure and
Office 365 (40+ services).
You can track progress of the VMs and Application Stacks as they are being
created. After launching, you can modify/resize the configuration details
(Flavor, RAM and CPU) of the VMs.
The platform allows you to add/attach new/existing storage volumes (Block
Storage) to your VMs. You can create a volume snapshot at any time you want.
You can configure networking i.e. which subnet of which VPC would you like to
put the VM or Application Stack under. You can choose from multiple vNICs to
configure the network interfaces to the VMs.
The platform supports multiple Policies. You can choose from an event based
or scheduled based policy, say, for Monitoring the VMs. You could decide to
monitor parameters such as CPU utilization, RAM utilization etc. Policies can be
used to automate tasks and actions which might otherwise need user's
intervention. You can monitor and apply policies to VMs, volumes, Application
Stacks. For example, you can create a policy to resize the instance if your
instance's CPU utilization is at the critical level 3 times in 60 seconds.
The platform provides an easy-to-use UI to access all the VMs and Application
Stacks you have created.
You can also import existing VMs that you have created in your environment
prior to implementing the Jamcracker Platform allowing you to view/manage
the VMs from the Instances page
The widget based IaaS Dashboard provides you visibility to your organization's
cloud (IaaS) resources. It allows you to view IaaS usage data using a variety of
visualizations such as area graphs and bar charts.
You can use the Budgeting module to define and allocate Budgets by creating
budget codes. You can input your specific budget codes while creating
resources (VMs, Application Stacks etc.). The system will validate and provide
alerts if the cost of services you are purchasing is exceeding the allocated if the
budget. You could also configure an approval workflow to require admin
approval if budget is being exceeded.
Jamcracker Platform provides a Content Management System (CMS) based
store front allowing you to have a custom look/feel/layout for your portal. Any
Drupal developer can make changes to the CMS based portal. Since the CMS
store is based on Drupal, [35000 plug-ins] it inherently supports integration to
social media, recommend store or service, rating of services or applications by
users of the store etc.
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