Public Cloud
Leveraging Elasticity to Turbo Charge Scalability
ScaleXtreme helps you automate servers no matter where they reside that have been built by leading technologies:
- Physical Servers, Virtualized, Private Clouds, or Public Clouds
- VMware vCloud Director, VMware vSphere, Citrix Cloudstack, or OpenStack
Incomparable Elasticity and Variable Pricing
Public cloud providers, such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Bluelock, HP Cloud Services and others, offer rich platforms for elastic, on-demand server capacity, giving customers the flexibility of pay-as-you-go pricing models.
Customers don't have to buy physical servers. Nor do they have to worry about the problems of running a hypervisors.
While there are distinct advantages of public cloud environments, many enterprises have opted for computing infrastructures that include a combination of multiple public clouds, private clouds and even physical servers to optimize their overall requirements.
Check out our ScaleXtreme Cloud Choices section to get more information on your options for your business.
Complexity Limits Scalability
Though highly elastic, a public cloud environment results in a significant increase in complexity. Managing and automating server tasks becomes even more difficult because of the number of cloud providers, number of end users, and lack of unified visibility to what has become now decentralized.
A unified server automation platform is really the only way you can scale to leverage the scalability benefits and manage side effects of the Public Cloud.
Technology to enable Scalability
Having the ability to purchase computing power on demand is one thing. Being able to actually create new servers with the correct application stacks quickly and accurately is another thing.
ScaleXtreme has built Dynamic Server Assembly™ based on the concept of a template that allows a customer to model a base set of parameters. The model includes the operating system hosted in the catalog of a cloud provider and a series of application and configuration settings. These get applied to the base server when it is activated on the cloud provider.
The ScaleXtreme platform uses simple workflow technology to create the server, install necessary applications and make appropriate configurations all specifically tailored to the cloud provider.
Access and Budget Controls to Manage Creeps
Now that it is easy to deploy servers across business units, your company may actually create more capacity than it needs without proper user access and cost controls.
ScaleXtreme's platform enables user access and budget controls to manage server creep from getting out of control.
OS Updates for Performance and Security
Enterprises can't always be certain that all public cloud servers' operating systems are patched with critical updates on a timely basis.
ScaleXtreme's platform offers an automated system that scans and identifies required patches.
