Platform ISF is a next-generation cloud management software product to transform internal enterprise IT data centers into agile and cost effective private clouds. Platform ISF’s unique application-centric approach automates the self-service assembly and runtime management of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) up to complex multi-tier applications on top of shared heterogeneous resource pools. One platform that delivers:

• Infrastructure to Applications – supports IaaS, a customer’s own PaaS, Applications, and instance-specific SaaS
• Dev / Test to Production – define service templates for simple to complex multi-tier applications that supports the entire application lifecycle
• Allocation and Runtime Management – both the allocation of the environment and the dynamic flexing according to changing workload levels and SLA requirements

With Platform ISF you can:

• Eliminate over-provisioning of infrastructure to meet peak demand, resulting in lower capital and operating expenses and higher utilization
• Automatically provision application environments and place workloads on the right systems to meet service levels in a timely and cost-effective manner

Key Features

Service management

• End user portals for self-service
• User and group management
• Delegated administration (unlimited levels)
• Metering and Chargeback
• Reservation management & Quotas

Allocation – provisioning and runtime management

• Application templates and service catalogs
• Allocation engine (e.g., resources, geography, cost, packing, striping, load, HA, energy, affinity, server, topology as well as across multiple data centers for high availability)
• Dynamic runtime scaling for SLAs

Resource management

• Hypervisor independent (VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc.)
• Deep VMWare integration
• Provisioning tool independent
• Resource management
• Open integration to data center systems

Operations management

• Single cloud administrative cockpit
• Monitoring
• Alarms
• Events

Enterprise-class support

• Global enterprise coverage
• 24x7 hotline support

Use Cases

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) - enable self-service for heterogeneous infrastructure services such as compute, storage, and network according to defined business policies to deploy and run operating systems and applications.
• Development and Test (Dev / Test) - reduce time to provision adhoc or short life environments as infrastructure or application services to development teams and quickly deprovision upon completion back into the resource pool. Common uses include ‘what-if’ testing and innovation, new application development and testing of commonly reused environments.
• Applications - automatically manage the runtime performance of n-tier applications defined by templates through monitoring at each level and policy-based automation to dynamically flex components to meet SLAs
• Customer Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS enable) - create platform definitions for reuse by development teams to standardize and streamline their custom engineering efforts. Reduction in the number of variations simplifies ongoing management and operational management in production.
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enablement - pre-defined application templates can be created and deployed in minutes, including post-provisioning scripting for immediate use by end users. Multiple instances can be easily managed and scaled according to specific business requirements.
• VM Sprawl - reduce unapproved creation of virtual machines without proper approvals, the over provisioning of resources versus actual business need, and improve reclamation speed after the usage period is completed.

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