Cloudbolt Command and Control Cloud Manager Features

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CloudBolt Command and Control Cloud Manager Features

Features that Beneﬁ t Business CloudBolt Command and Control (C2) is the next-generation IT Self Service Portal and Cloud Manager that uses an Organization’s existing virtualization and other technologies to create a secure cloud-computing environment. C2 automates the request, provisioning, management, and delivery of all IT resources to end users, enabling on-demand end-customer IT self- service access. C2 focuses on providing features that enable “IT in a Business Context”, which helps IT Organizations provide actionable data on the metrics that business leadership needs in order to make informed decisions. With C2, Business and IT alike gain the transparency and CloudBolt C2 Key visibility into how resources are deployed and used, including user and group ownership, as Beneﬁ ts well as all-important associated cost. u Improve IT IT Organizations are comprised of more than just virtualization. A full IT enterprise encom- Responsiveness passes virtualization, con! guration management, ticketing systems, ! nancial management, physical hardware, run book automation, hybrid clouds, software license management, and u Reduce Time to Cloud storage environments. Only C2 has the ability to unify all of these technologies into a single Enablement pane-of-glass automated IT portal. u Best Time-to-Value of any Cloud Manager on the Innovations that Drive Business Value Market At scale, data centers are excellent proving grounds for technologies. The CloudBolt Leader- ship team has over 40 years of collective data center experience; experience that is used to u Line-of-Business Cost drive innovation in the C2 product. The result is a tool that goes well beyond the usual pro- Transparency visioning of virtual machines, and enables IT organizations to transform the way they track, u Chargeback and account for, utilize, and present IT services to end users. Showback Cost Software License Management Accounting Since C2 already directly integrates with various Con! guration Management and Data Center u Increases Service to Line- Automation tools, it can also use that data to keep track of deployed software licenses. With of-Business Software License Management, IT organizations are able to track and report on license con- u Drive More Value From sumption and deployment trends in real-time across every C2-managed environment. C2 Existing Technology helps IT organizations understand and control software license consumption in real time. No Investments more spreadsheets needed! u More Readily Adopt Cloud Supply Chain Validator (CSCV) Disruptive Technologies C2 will help reduce time-to-noti! cation and time-to-resolution of major cloud-related availability issues. Fundamentally, cloud managers are all subject to changes to the underlying systems that they manage. For example, a password change to an underlying virtualization manager, or an updated work" ow that requires a new parameter mapping would are unlikely to be detected by traditional monitoring systems. Left unaddressed, each of these changes results in a failure, causing automated provisioning to fail for some or all end users. The Cloud Supply Chain Validator is the answer to this issue. When CSCV is enabled in C2, it automatically tests selected work" ows, using a real user and group to automatically walk through the provisioning and decommissioning process, and will alert IT administrators to any anomalies or failures in the provisioning process.

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Easy Installation Given the buzz-worthy status the word “cloud” has achieved, every vendor on the planet is claiming to o# er a cloud solution. Many of these solutions come attached with a promise of “Rapidly enable Private Cloud with (insert product here)”. In practice, however, many of these products come with multi-month implementation cycles that require signi! cant and costly professional services in order to properly implement and con! gure. The time to value for these products is immense. While we also claim ease of use, we can prove it. Leading industry analysts provide valuable input. They’ve seen it, and used it, and agree that “C2 has the best time-to-value of any product in the CMP market”. CloudBolt happily puts our reputation on the line by o# ering the C2 Virtualization Edition for download, install, and use at no cost for up to 100 VMs. Don’t just take our word for it. See for yourself how quickly C2 will provide value in your environment. Orchestration Hook and Run Book Automation Integration CloudBolt C2’s Orchestration Hooks and run book automation integration together enable automation without boundaries. For organizations with investments in run book automation work" ows, C2’s integrated run book automation connector enables IT administrators to identify, import, and assign value mappings to external work" ows. C2-imported external work" ows can then be assigned for execution in various points during internal C2 work" ow execution. C2’s Orchestration Hooks IT Resource IT Personnel and Executives present organizations Consumers without existing run book automation environments with the ability IT Self-Service Portal Command & Control Interface to manually integrate Private Cloud other external systems Single Sign-on — LDAP/AD into C2. In a man- Role-Based Access Control Security Layer ner similar to external PKI Authentication work" ows, Orchestration Hooks are passed values from C2, and C2 assigns Control Engine values to internal vari- RESTful Orchestration ables based on Orches- API Data Hooks tration Hook responses. Model Customers are currently Work"ow Utilization Org Structure Con!g Info using Orchestration Hooks to do such things Abstraction Layer as provision storage in a NAS environment, Virtualization Physical Con!g Mgmt Orchestrators Clouds Net Storage Conf 1 Management Conf 2 Management Conf 3 Management Conf 4 Management Conf 5 Management automatically create du- Hardware Vendor 1 Hardware Vendor 2 Orchestrator1 Orchestrator2 Orchestrator3 Framework 1 Framework 2 Framework 3 Framework 4 plicate high availability 1 Hypervisor 2 Hypervisor 3 Hypervisor 4 Hypervisor 5 Hypervisor Storage 1 Storage2 Storage3 VM instances in a public SDN 1 SDN 2 cloud, and automatically update ! rewall settings based on application selection. Architecture That Drives Value CloudBolt C2’s power and " exibility are a result of its advanced architecture. The industry’s most intuitive interface provides a " exible and highly customizable IT Self Service portal that C2 administrators can easily adapt and modify to ! t the IT consumer’s needs, while also providing single-pane-of-glass visibility and management into all aspects of the enterprise environment. Modi- ! cations to the ordering process are made from within the UI. No SDK or developers are needed. CloudBolt C2’s Security Layer enables it to function as a multi-tenant system, complete with fully delegated group administration. Users only see the servers, groups, applications, networks, environments, and storage systems they have access to. Two groups on the same C2 instance can have totally di# erent underlying environments and resources. Resource ownership is mapped one-to- one with the existing business structure.

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The Orchestration Engine is C2’s core. This architecture layer enables the automation of VM management processes, including the ability to call out to external systems through Orchestration Hooks, and receive commands from other external systems through the RESTful API. Abstracting users from the underlying technology is key to a cloud-focused enterprise. CloudBolt C2’s Abstraction Layer enables C2 to communicate with underlying technologies while not burdening the end user with unnecessary complexity. Additionally, because this layer is separated from the Orchestration Engine, it allows CloudBolt, its partners, and even Customers to rapidly develop new connectors. CloudBolt C2’s Abstraction Layer e# ectively commoditizes and future-proofs the entire IT environment. C2’s architecture was built from the ground up to solve the problem of Cloud Management. The architecture is " exible and exten- sible, and provides a stable foundation to rapidly integrate and grow with any organization. CloudBolt C2 Features u 20 Minute Installation u IT Self-Service Portal with Industry-Leading u Asynchronous Job Management Intuitive User Interface u Auto-Discovery of Existing Resources u Order Approval System u Automated Provisioning u Multi-Cloud Management – Enable IaaS u Automated Work" ows u Multi-Tenancy u External Authentication u Reporting u Chargeback and Showback Cost Accounting u Service Catalog u Cloud Supply Chain Validator u Single Pane-of-Glass IT Management u Customizable Data-Driven Interface u Software License Tracking and Management u Delegated Group Administration and u RESTful API Management with Quotas u Virtual Data Center Environment Support u External Work" ow Pluggable u VM Lifecycle Management

“Based on the performance of these products for our use cases, and the agile architecture of CloudBolt Software that enables rapid deployment of enhancements, I would argue that they represent a more viable solution for our cloud computing initiatives than VMware.” DIRECTOR AT AN ENTERPRISE CLOUDBOLT CUSTOMER

CloudBolt C2 features are designed with the goal of enabling “IT in a Business Context”. C2’s capabilities ensure that IT organizations can provide business leaders with real-time actionable information about the a a line of business, group, project, or team’s IT resource consumption, while simultaneously enabling the IT organization to signi! cantly increase the level of service to lines of business. C2 features include the capabilities IT organizations require to ensure e# ective VM Lifecycle Management and IT Governance in multi-cloud self-service environments. User and group resource ownership provides accountability in all aspects of the IT environment. The Cloud Supply Chain Validator automatically works behind the scenes to verify that all components internal or external to C2 are available, and will alert administrators to a problem before users are negatively impacted. With industry-leading time-to-value, C2 can be up and running in your environment in minutes, not days or weeks, leading industry analysts say: “CloudBolt C2 has the most intuitive interface I’ve seen in a Cloud Management Platform”, and “C2 has the best time-to-value of any product in the CMP market.” CloudBolt C2 Integrations u Virtualization Managers u Provisioning Engines u Private Cloud Frameworks u SDN/Network Virtualization u Public Cloud Frameworks u Run Book Automation Systems u Automation and Con! guration Management u Storage Management Systems u Bare-Metal Hardware

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CloudBolt C2 helps IT organizations more e# ectively manage disparate pools of technology and resources by integrating with numerous di# erent technology classes. Using these underlying technologies, C2 can automate nearly any provisioning process, and can grow with your organization: as new underlying technologies are added, C2 will easily expand its breadth of connectors to accommodate di# erent versions, new technology classes, etc. In order to enable IT in a Business Context, organizations need to keep track of organizational structure, usage by line of business, and software licenses in real-time across an enterprise. Only C2 keeps your IT organization tightly aligned with the needs of the business. How C2 is Offered Businesses use CloudBolt C2 to drive more value from existing investments, as well. End users use C2 to make self-service application, service, and/or con! guration management selections CloudBolt C2 is offered in two that correlate to capabilities from underlying C2 integrations. C2 also o# ers direct integration editions: Virtualization (VE) to external work" ow and run book automation systems, which enables C2 to integrate into and Enterprise (EE). Both existing work" ows and business processes. editions include the ability to fully manage virtual, and public Cloud environments, “Our vision of this private cloud compelled us but EE adds additional enterprise-speciﬁc capabilities to reconsider how we were deploying not only that enable connectivity to technology, but human IT resources throughout the a wider range of enterprise state. Resources and data centers were distributed tools. throughout the state—but to make the vending machine cloud vision happen, we needed to Get it Now consolidate in many cases.” VE is available to download, FLINT WATERS, CIO FOR THE STATE OF WYOMING and includes a no-cost license to manage up to 100 virtual machines. EE requires a support contract to install Get Started With C2 In Your Business and use. For many organizations, the reality of cloud strategy and implementation are far behind vendor claims. Developing and implementing a broad enterprise cloud strategy is a time- Questions? consuming and expensive endeavor that is unlikely to provide immediate capability gains or service improvement. The problem with many Cloud Manager products is that their long and Contact Us expensive implementation times, and requirements for signi! cant professional services tend Contact CloudBolt sales to require IT organizations to have a well-thought out and planned cloud strategy before even by (phone) 703.665.1060 attempting an implementation or Proof of Concept. Instead of requiring just such a strategy, or (email) sales@ C2 enables organizations to rapidly implement quick-win capabilities that immediately im- cloudboltsoftware.com for prove the level of service from IT to the lines of business. more information on either edition. Because C2 is rapidly installed and con! gured, it lowers the barrier to entry by providing increased services and capabilities to the business with minimal input of time and e# ort. Once the IT Organization has implemented IT Self Service, CloudBolt C2’s lengthy list of capabilities can help IT organizations rapidly enable other cloud-backed capabilities, including IT Usage Metering, Automated Work" ows, a Service Catalog, and other capabilities that are designed to provide as much bene! t to the business as they do the IT organization. IT organizations can get started with Self Service IT today, at no cost. C2 Virtualization Edition is available to download, install, and use at no cost for up to 100 VMs. Don’t take our word that C2 is the easiest Cloud Manager to install. Try it for yourself. Visit www.cloudboltsw.com/ downloads to get started.

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