What if ... The clouds were like the office supplies? (Guest post of Cloudsoft)

What if ... The clouds were like the office supplies? (Guest post of Cloudsoft) -

Managing applications across multiple clouds

This client after just our friends Cloudsoft.

Do you work in a large company? Have you ever noticed that no one ever feared the availability of pens and pencils? Once a new employee was shown the location of the office supply cabinet, they can usually assume that the right items will still be available in sufficient quantity at the right time.

location, availability, options, and -Request access. These might sound familiar to those who work with clouds.

But behind the cool effortlessly without interruption office supplies, and allows executives to sleep without worrying about how many Post-Its tomorrow might need, is a sharp internal system. In this office supply system "political" (to use a formal term a bit heavy) are "automatically" implemented (from the perspective of the end user) to manage the supply of multiple service providers (Staples Office Depot, etc.), taking advantage of all available options, and deal with changing levels of demand over time.

administrator or assistant that manages the supply closet has the ability to multi-source office supplies, allowing them to avoid school problems of stock, Articles source specialist, and access at competitive prices and shipping. Changing suppliers or use multiple vendors is transparent to end users and has little or no cost to the organization.

Is this still sound familiar in the world of cloud? Maybe not so much.

While we are spoiled for choice for cloud IaaS providers, a current lack of application portability between clouds locks in applications, preventing flexibility and operation of full potential of cloud computing business.

Now how do you

• move applications to a different IaaS provider, without huge cost code refactoring,
• or the source of the majority of virtual machines in a cloud, while using special purpose machines of another,
• or automatically scale and hybridize applications across multiple clouds,
• or take advantage of spot prices for suppliers
• or avoid temporary interruptions by switching,
• or serve applications from different geographical areas depending on the time of day?

Fortunately Cloudsoft has worked on open source projects to ensure portability of clouds and implement the automatic management of the fairly powerful application to fulfill the above scenarios.

Application Platform Management Cloudsoft (AMP) combines jclouds Brooklyn and open-source projects with support at the enterprise level and professional services. This gives you a complete solution for the deployment, configuration and management of applications and through the clouds, including private, public and hybridclouds.

jclouds is a library that makes portable applications on clouds. This gives application owners to cloud the ability to move to different clouds, adding business flexibility and eliminate the risk of vendor lock-in.

Disregarding the differences in cloud API, jclouds allows applications using Citrix CloudPlatform, CloudStack and more than 30 other clouds and cloud technologies in a portable and flexible mode. Application owners can take advantage of the power of two of CloudPlatform and CloudStack's ability to create IaaS private, public and hybrid, while having the ability to consume best-of-class, specialized resources from other suppliers, and scalability of their implementations.

Brooklyn is an automatic management plan that makes it easy to automate the implementation of trade and technology policies.

Brooklyn powerful application descriptors that model the inherent complexity of enterprise systems, and in addition to Brooklyn can easily reuse the deployment of applications and existing componentry configuration so you do not have to reinvent what already works well. The result is a "one-click" deployment fast, reliable and robust and configuring your applications.

Brooklyn will then dynamically manage and govern applications while they are running, and across cloud providers, throughout the lifecycle of an application. Management decisions are taken automatically by reference to technical and commercial policies of the owner application, greatly reducing the manual intervention

Application Management through multiple clouds -. This is easy!

Watch the video on http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/6382 for more information on Cloudsoft and Citrix [10mins], or learn more about the management platform Cloudsoft of applications. cloudsoftcorp.com

This video is also available on Citrix.com: How to build a cloud from the ground> Extend your cloud> Platform-as-a-service

By David Toy, Product Manager at Cloudsoft

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