Walldorf, Germany – November 29th, 2010 – fluid Operations announced today the launch of a new product generation – eCloudManager 3.5. Mission-critical enterprise applications, such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, can now be delivered, consumed and billed as standardized services through a fully customizable self-service portal. For more information please visit our website.
eCloudManager 3.5 has already been implemented for the SAP Center of Excellence Value Prototyping in Walldorf, Germany, and Santa Clara, USA, as well as for NovisCorp, an SAP hosting provider in Chile, and for MvB Consulting, an SAP hosting provider in Germany, allowing our customers to maximize IT service quality, and reduce the costs and minimize the risk of provisioning and maintaining enterprise application landscapes.
What-s new in eCloudManager 3.5?
Enhanced self-services for enterprise applications
With the newly released eCloudManager, IT administrators can now define highly customized service catalogs containing enterprise application systems and system landscapes for end users. They can create Golden Images and Golden Landscapes and distribute them across several datastores, making them available on click of button. Moreover, admins can also set individual user rights and costs for each Golden Image or Golden Landscape, addressing the issue of security and enabling granular metering and billing for all consumed resources. The concept of Zones has also been introduced in the latest eCloudManager release, allowing the administrator to set cost, availability and performance SLAs based on infrastructure resources such as clusters and storage volumes or datastores. eCloudManager 3.5 enables end users to consume enterprise applications on demand as Landscape as a Service across private and public clouds, and to easily keep track of the costs incurred for each action. In other words, the users can now focus on what the service they selected provides them, rather than how the service is being implemented.
Cisco UCS Blades Integration
As part of the recent release, Cisco UCS blades have been added to the eCloudManager support matrix. Thus, full monitoring of physical blades is now possible directly from the eCloudManager console! Together with the already available support for VMware and all major EMC and NetApp storage systems, this makes eCloudManager the first solution to support all components of the Vblock AND the FlexPod in one tool.
This represents the foundation for bare-metal provisioning on Cisco UCS blades which will be fully integrated with the next release, to achieve what we call Blade as a Service – the ability to provision enterprise workloads on physical blades within minutes and without any post-provisioning configuration necessary. This will deliver higher server performance and the same level of flexibility and automation which is now available through hypervisor virtualization.
eCloudManager Intelligence Edition for private beta customers
As a preview of the next major eCloudManager release, a new edition has been added to the eCloudManager1 – Intelligence Edition. The eCloudManager Intelligence Edition solves the challenges data center operators struggle with when it comes to getting a unified view over the data center resources and business-level information, exploring relationships between these resources, documenting and annotating them, and analyzing KPIs. This is done by integrating business-level and data center resources, delivering a resource-centric view on the data, and making vital relationships explicit, so as to support daily data management tasks and help identify data center risks, problems and optimization opportunities.
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