Establishing Enterprise Cloud Governance Maintaining Control of Your Cloud Environment Is Significantly Easier When You Have a Governance Framework in Place
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Establishing Enterprise Cloud Governance Maintaining control of your cloud environment is significantly easier when you have a governance framework in place. See how you can meet the challenge of ensuring access, security, accounting controls and more – even within a multi-cloud, multi-tool environment. Typical enterprise cloud These challenges are the same whether environment an organization is using a single public Maintain control over cloud Large organizations today have – or cloud with multiple accounts, a private operations with Dell Multi- are in the process of building – one of cloud, or multiple clouds. Cloud Manager. three cloud environments: • Public cloud (e.g. AWS, Joyent, Rackspace) How Dell can help • Private cloud (e.g. OpenStack, Dell Multi-Cloud Manager is a cloud Benefits: CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vSphere) infrastructure management solution for • Enforces consistent governance • Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud (any deploying and managing applications in policies for actions taken against combination of multiple clouds) private, public, and hybrid clouds, with your applications in any combination robust controls in place to enable the of supported clouds Challenges highest level of governance throughout • Watches over your cloud With comprehensive cloud infrastructure the cloud environment. Multi-Cloud infrastructure, monitoring any management, enterprises will be Manager offers fine-grained access combination of supported cloud ready to tackle a number of common controls, financial tracking, integration services — public, private or hybrid challenges when it comes to cloud with identity management systems, and • Enables self-service provisioning governance. The most critical include: logging and monitoring of all actions of cloud resources on any of the • Maintaining security across the cloud taken within the cloud. Developers clouds we support through a single environment can leverage self-service provisioning, user ID • Demonstrating compliance with required deploy applications to the cloud, and • Automates applications running laws and regulations automate scaling and cloud-bursting in one or more supported clouds, • Controlling and tracking spending based on system or application triggers. including provisioning, scaling, backup and disaster recovery • Currently supports the following leading public and private clouds: http://www.enstratius.com/clouds. Figure 1. Set access rights to deliver the security controls you require. Role-based access controls features reporting tools that allow Multi-Cloud Manager’s robust access administrators to track resource usage controls enable organizations to extend within a single cloud or across multiple their security policies to the cloud. Set an clouds, with the click of a button. Reports unlimited number of users, groups, and can be downloaded, and can be used, roles to track exactly which person is along with Multi-Cloud Manager’s taking what action and when. Integrate monitoring and logging capabilities, in the with LDAP/Active Directory to ensure that event of an audit. when employees leave the organization, their cloud access is also instantly Automation terminated. Cleanly separate clients for Multi-Cloud Manager allows you to “set multi-tenant operations so the actions it and forget it”. Set scaling parameters of one client will have no effect on the for applications, enable cloud-bursting actions of another. when usage reaches a certain peak, and leverage leading configuration Budget tracking management tools like Opscode Chef Easily track spending across your cloud and PuppetLabs’ Puppet, without having environment, by department, group, to make changes to the recipes and project, client, or individual user. Multi- scripts you already have in place. Create Cloud Manager allows you to set alerts a service catalog of approved templates once a spending threshold is reached, for easy deployment. Users with the and to cut off the ability to launch right permissions can take advantage of additional virtual machines if a hard cap self-service provisioning, saving both the is reached. Showbacks and chargebacks cloud system administrator and the end are easy to implement with the detailed user time and effort. level of tracking provided. API Integration Monitoring of actions and usage The Enstratius RESTful API enables easy Want to know who is provisioning the integration with monitoring, service largest servers – and which servers are ticketing and other existing operations, idle/underperforming or overprovisioned? allowing greater governance across your Or, see which user took which action organization. on any given day? Multi-Cloud Manager Figure 2. Budget codes allow you to limit spending across your clouds and warn users when limits are reached. Dell Multi-Cloud Manager allows you to track resource usage across all of your clouds. Figure 3. View detailed reports to track resource usage, user actions, and server status within a single cloud or across multiple clouds. Support for multiple clouds, cloud Dell Software: Delivering complete platforms, and tools and connected solutions Multi-Cloud Manager helps you avoid Dell Software empowers organizations vendor lock-in, with support for more of all sizes to experience Dell’s “power than 20 private and public clouds to do more” by delivering scalable and cloud platforms. Multi-Cloud yet simple-to-use solutions that can Manager also integrates into your increase productivity, responsiveness existing operations, including leading and efficiency. This software, when configuration management tools, billing, combined with Dell hardware and and monitoring, to enable greater services, helps customers simplify IT, business agility. Multi-Cloud Manager mitigate risk and accelerate business can be delivered as Software as a Service results. www.dellsoftware.com. (SaaS) or deployed on-premises. Conclusion Don’t let your cloud environment control you. Take control of your clouds with Dell Multi-Cloud Manager. This will allow you to put governance at the forefront of your cloud strategy, enabling business agility and reliability while increasing overall security. Dell Software 5 Polaris Way, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 | www.dell.com © 2013 Dell, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Dell, Dell Software, the Dell Software logo and products—as If you are located outside North America, you can find local identified in this document—are registered trademarks of Dell, Inc. in the U.S.A. and/or other countries. office information on our Web site. 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