Application Architecture Manager
Gravitant's application architecture manager includes a design time and runtime component. It sets the industry standard for automated application architecture capacity planning, deployment and management across multiple Iaas environments. It provides the flexibility of deploying multiple application platforms (Ex: J2EE, Azure, LAMP) over multiple clouds using model driven virtual appliances. A common set of architecture services for security, redundancy, monitoring, and scalability enable deployment teams to improve productivity, consistency, and reliability.
Core services include:
- Application Portfolio Management
- Application Architecture Modeling
- Application Capacity Modeling and Management
- Application Virtual Appliance Management
- Application Deployment and Orchestration
- Application Architecture Change and Configuration Management
Features
- Unified Management Console
- Application Architecture Modeler
- Model driven application factory for automated construction, deployment, maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments
- Common Application Architecture Services - Runtime Component
- Application Deployment and Resource Orchestrator - automated software appliances (templates)
- Change and Configuration Management - Automated Workflow and Resource Control
Benefits
- A single Iaas resource view across Iaas environments for application deployment teams
- Quickly provision & control infrastructure and application platform resources
- Ability to control and optimize VM sprawl & improve application performance
- Visualize and manage application architecture in multiple VDC environments
- Quickly baseline application resources capacity and scalability requirements
- Reduce time, cost and effort to applications in multiple clouds
- Quickly port application and platforms between different Iaas clouds
- Support and enable applications with different platforms through on single management interface
- Significantly reduce cost and improve responsiveness to changes
- Automatically scale Iaas resources up or down based on capacity and demand policies
- Ensure security, redundancy & reliability for applications running in clouds
- DR, backup, OS-patching
- Reduce time, cost & effort to applications in multiple clouds
- Quickly port application & platforms between different Iaas clouds
- Support & enable applications with different platforms through a single management interface
- Align all technical & management staff before changes are made to product environments
- Automate change & configuration management to improve service delivery