Cloupia Powers Enterprises and Service Providers with Enhanced Cloud Automation Offerings
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:49:01 AM
Cloupia Powers Enterprises and Service Providers with Enhanced Cloud Automation Offerings
Private, Hybrid and Dynamic Data Center Automation and Management Solutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloupia, a cloud infrastructure management and automation software provider, today announced enhanced cloud offerings to help enterprises and service providers transition to next generation dynamic data centers. With Cloupia's cloud automation offerings, customers can build and manage IaaS private and public clouds swiftly and securely. These new offerings will enable enterprises and service providers to easily transition to clouds by offering one integrated comprehensive cloud platform with unified management across entire IT infrastructure -- physical, virtual and cloud.
"Cloupia continues to provide the next generation dynamic data center solutions with flexible licensing controls and components to help customers with evolutionary cloud adoption, low cost of entry and speed of deployment," said Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, Vice President of Engineering & Product Development. "We are providing end-to-end comprehensive cloud infrastructure management with pre-integrated cloud suites that avoids separate management interfaces and integration overhead." All of the following offerings are pre-integrated software packages that come in a downloadable virtual appliance format.
-- Private Cloud Suite: Enables organizations to build secure and
multi-tenant private clouds within the firewalls and security of IT
organization. The private cloud suite provides simplified provisioning
and deployment to end users through self-service provisioning portal. It
also provides unified and integrated management to the administrators
across the IT organization with the role-based policies and access
control.
-- Public IaaS Cloud Suite: Provides most comprehensive solution and fully
featured automation framework for service providers to build IaaS
clouds. This suite offers pre-integrated cloud platform with end-to-end
controls and top to bottom visibility. This suite provides lowest cost
of entry into market with incremental growth options and also provides
capabilities for flexible revenue models. With this suite, service
providers can offer self-service provisioning, management and
administration to its customers.
-- Hybrid Cloud Suite: Enables organizations to manage and control hybrid
cloud environments that combine both private and public clouds. It
provides application mobility and cloud bursting between the clouds. It
offers single pane of glass and common management framework to manage
both private and public clouds. This suite allows enterprises to extend
their data centers securely to public clouds.
-- Cloud-in-a-Box using Cisco UCS, NetApp & VMware: A turnkey solution to
build private clouds with minimal configuration requirements using
bundled compute, storage and network resources. The Cloupia's
Cloud-in-a-Box solution consists of Cisco UCS platform, NetApp Unified
storage, VMware ESX Hypervisor Server & Cloupia Unified Infrastructure
Controller. This solution can be used as a building block for new
private clouds and dynamic data center build-outs by Service Providers
and Enterprises. The Cloupia's Cloud-in-a-Box solution offers
self-service portal, multi-tenant security, monitoring and provisioning
capabilities.
Cloupia's unified cloud platform -- Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) is the first fully featured unified and integrated cloud platform that provides end-to-end cloud infrastructure management solution. Cloupia also provides rich unified cloud platform API for customers to extend existing IT infrastructures to clouds. The CUIC architecture is comprised of modular components that give customers flexibility and choice to integrate with their existing IT environments. Customers have flexible controls to manage and extend their IT environments to clouds with multiple physical, virtual and cloud connectors. The CUIC consists of the following six components that can be licensed together or separately.
-- Integrated Resource Lifecycle Manager: The Cloupia Integrated Resource
Lifecycle Manager provides discovery, monitoring, reporting and
lifecycle management capabilities across multiple private and public
clouds. It helps you bridge islands of storage, server, networking and
service management functions. It provides a unified control that most
organizations are looking for to manage physical, virtual and external
cloud environments.
-- Operations Automation Center: The Cloupia Operations Automation Center
provides automated operational reporting, event management, alarm
management & change management IT functions. It reduces operational
costs and automates day-to-day routine IT operational tasks. It provides
unprecedented real-time visibility with compelling visualization tools
to improve the overall troubleshooting and MTTR.
-- Continuous Capacity Manager: The Cloupia Continuous Capacity Manager
continuously monitors, stores and reports capacity across physical,
virtual and cloud environments. Cloupia's patented CloudSense(TM)
Analytics provides visibility into entire infrastructure resources
utilization, critical performance metrics across IT infrastructure
stack, and capacity in real time. It significantly improves capacity
trending, forecasting and planning of virtual and cloud infrastructures.
-- Chargeback: The Cloupia Chargeback provides cost management, monitoring
and reporting capabilities. It provides flexible cost models and
detailed resource accounting reports. These detailed resource accounting
details can be rolled into VM level, group level chargeback summary
reports and these records can be integrated into existing enterprise
billing systems.
-- Service Delivery Orchestrator: Cloupia's service delivery orchestrator
is a complete end-to-end service delivery platform that provides service
creation, publishing, governance and management. At the core of
Cloupia's unified cloud platform, the service delivery orchestrator
automates deployment and delivery of Infrastructure services. It
includes policy engine, workflow engine, scheduler components along with
service management functions.
-- Self-service Portal: Cloupia's Self-Service portal provides on-demand
provisioning and access to shared infrastructure to create, deploy and
reconfigure servers and applications in minutes. It has built-in
workflows with pre-define policies and multi-step approval processes.
End users can get complete visibility into provisioned applications
resource utilization, accounting and associated costs.
Pricing and Availability:
Cloupia CUIC 2.4 is now generally available. Cloupia offers a free 30-day trial edition. For pricing information and evaluations, contact sales@cloupia.com.
Related Links:
Cloupia Products and Solutions
CUIC Product Information
CUIC Technical Information
Datasheet
About Cloupia
Cloupia unlocks the power of next-generation cloud computing for organizations, offering a suite of cloud computing products & solutions. Cloupia's products and solutions address the complex challenges of building, deploying and managing a wide variety of applications and IT services in both public and private cloud environments. Cloupia's vendor-neutral platform enables organizations to fully exploit cloud technologies and options, without compromising existing operations and investments. Cloupia is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit http://www.cloupia.com.
This press release was issued through eReleases(R). For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http://www.ereleases.com.
SOURCE Cloupia
Cloupia
CONTACT: Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, Cloupia, +1-408-988-1111, bhaskar@cloupia.com
Web Site: http://www.cloupia.com
Private, Hybrid and Dynamic Data Center Automation and Management Solutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloupia, a cloud infrastructure management and automation software provider, today announced enhanced cloud offerings to help enterprises and service providers transition to next generation dynamic data centers. With Cloupia's cloud automation offerings, customers can build and manage IaaS private and public clouds swiftly and securely. These new offerings will enable enterprises and service providers to easily transition to clouds by offering one integrated comprehensive cloud platform with unified management across entire IT infrastructure -- physical, virtual and cloud.
"Cloupia continues to provide the next generation dynamic data center solutions with flexible licensing controls and components to help customers with evolutionary cloud adoption, low cost of entry and speed of deployment," said Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, Vice President of Engineering & Product Development. "We are providing end-to-end comprehensive cloud infrastructure management with pre-integrated cloud suites that avoids separate management interfaces and integration overhead." All of the following offerings are pre-integrated software packages that come in a downloadable virtual appliance format.
-- Private Cloud Suite: Enables organizations to build secure and
multi-tenant private clouds within the firewalls and security of IT
organization. The private cloud suite provides simplified provisioning
and deployment to end users through self-service provisioning portal. It
also provides unified and integrated management to the administrators
across the IT organization with the role-based policies and access
control.
-- Public IaaS Cloud Suite: Provides most comprehensive solution and fully
featured automation framework for service providers to build IaaS
clouds. This suite offers pre-integrated cloud platform with end-to-end
controls and top to bottom visibility. This suite provides lowest cost
of entry into market with incremental growth options and also provides
capabilities for flexible revenue models. With this suite, service
providers can offer self-service provisioning, management and
administration to its customers.
-- Hybrid Cloud Suite: Enables organizations to manage and control hybrid
cloud environments that combine both private and public clouds. It
provides application mobility and cloud bursting between the clouds. It
offers single pane of glass and common management framework to manage
both private and public clouds. This suite allows enterprises to extend
their data centers securely to public clouds.
-- Cloud-in-a-Box using Cisco UCS, NetApp & VMware: A turnkey solution to
build private clouds with minimal configuration requirements using
bundled compute, storage and network resources. The Cloupia's
Cloud-in-a-Box solution consists of Cisco UCS platform, NetApp Unified
storage, VMware ESX Hypervisor Server & Cloupia Unified Infrastructure
Controller. This solution can be used as a building block for new
private clouds and dynamic data center build-outs by Service Providers
and Enterprises. The Cloupia's Cloud-in-a-Box solution offers
self-service portal, multi-tenant security, monitoring and provisioning
capabilities.
Cloupia's unified cloud platform -- Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) is the first fully featured unified and integrated cloud platform that provides end-to-end cloud infrastructure management solution. Cloupia also provides rich unified cloud platform API for customers to extend existing IT infrastructures to clouds. The CUIC architecture is comprised of modular components that give customers flexibility and choice to integrate with their existing IT environments. Customers have flexible controls to manage and extend their IT environments to clouds with multiple physical, virtual and cloud connectors. The CUIC consists of the following six components that can be licensed together or separately.
-- Integrated Resource Lifecycle Manager: The Cloupia Integrated Resource
Lifecycle Manager provides discovery, monitoring, reporting and
lifecycle management capabilities across multiple private and public
clouds. It helps you bridge islands of storage, server, networking and
service management functions. It provides a unified control that most
organizations are looking for to manage physical, virtual and external
cloud environments.
-- Operations Automation Center: The Cloupia Operations Automation Center
provides automated operational reporting, event management, alarm
management & change management IT functions. It reduces operational
costs and automates day-to-day routine IT operational tasks. It provides
unprecedented real-time visibility with compelling visualization tools
to improve the overall troubleshooting and MTTR.
-- Continuous Capacity Manager: The Cloupia Continuous Capacity Manager
continuously monitors, stores and reports capacity across physical,
virtual and cloud environments. Cloupia's patented CloudSense(TM)
Analytics provides visibility into entire infrastructure resources
utilization, critical performance metrics across IT infrastructure
stack, and capacity in real time. It significantly improves capacity
trending, forecasting and planning of virtual and cloud infrastructures.
-- Chargeback: The Cloupia Chargeback provides cost management, monitoring
and reporting capabilities. It provides flexible cost models and
detailed resource accounting reports. These detailed resource accounting
details can be rolled into VM level, group level chargeback summary
reports and these records can be integrated into existing enterprise
billing systems.
-- Service Delivery Orchestrator: Cloupia's service delivery orchestrator
is a complete end-to-end service delivery platform that provides service
creation, publishing, governance and management. At the core of
Cloupia's unified cloud platform, the service delivery orchestrator
automates deployment and delivery of Infrastructure services. It
includes policy engine, workflow engine, scheduler components along with
service management functions.
-- Self-service Portal: Cloupia's Self-Service portal provides on-demand
provisioning and access to shared infrastructure to create, deploy and
reconfigure servers and applications in minutes. It has built-in
workflows with pre-define policies and multi-step approval processes.
End users can get complete visibility into provisioned applications
resource utilization, accounting and associated costs.
Pricing and Availability:
Cloupia CUIC 2.4 is now generally available. Cloupia offers a free 30-day trial edition. For pricing information and evaluations, contact sales@cloupia.com.
Related Links:
Cloupia Products and Solutions
CUIC Product Information
CUIC Technical Information
Datasheet
About Cloupia
Cloupia unlocks the power of next-generation cloud computing for organizations, offering a suite of cloud computing products & solutions. Cloupia's products and solutions address the complex challenges of building, deploying and managing a wide variety of applications and IT services in both public and private cloud environments. Cloupia's vendor-neutral platform enables organizations to fully exploit cloud technologies and options, without compromising existing operations and investments. Cloupia is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit http://www.cloupia.com.
This press release was issued through eReleases(R). For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http://www.ereleases.com.
SOURCE Cloupia
Cloupia
CONTACT: Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, Cloupia, +1-408-988-1111, bhaskar@cloupia.com
Web Site: http://www.cloupia.com