Gravitant cloudMatrix™ Overview
Gravitant cloudMatrix™ is the industry’s first cloud-based, on-demand IT management platform for managing hybrid cloud environments and optimizing a real-time IT supply chain. The platform enables a network of federated virtual data centers (computing resources) in collaboration with enterprise-class cloud services providers. Enterprise IT can leverage this capability to meet their infrastructure requirements and infinitely scale resources based on application architecture and economic constraints.
Gravitant cloudMatrix is the first platform that offers a single user interface for business and IT managers to effectively operationalize and manage hybrid cloud environments with one or more cloud providers. For the first time, it provides IT with a single transaction/metering platform for planning, ordering, provisioning, monitoring, and governing cloud resources. Core cloudMatrix suite includes:
- Cloud Business Manager: Enables size, prize and buy for cloud services and manages catalogs, orders, and consolidated bills.
- Virtual Data Center Manager: Enables a cloud grid for virtual data center capacity planning, sourcing, setup and provisioning.
- Application Architecture Manager: Enables design and management of application deployment architecture, capacity planning, virtual appliances, deployment automation, orchestration, application porting and change management.
- Cloud Operations Manager: Includes dashboards and alerts for infrastructure and applications along with predictive root cause analysis for proactive action. Also, can integrate with Help Desk services.
- Cloud Service Governor: Includes automated policy triggers to maintain system (infrastructure, applications) performance, utilization, scalability, QoS and Service Provider performance. Includes audit and compliance reports and dashboards.
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Description
Service Governor provides workflow and policy automation to control infrastructure resources and cost to effectively govern virtual data center resources. At an organizational level, service governor enforces resources quota management. Services governor also automates cloud service provider compliance and performance management.
Features
- Executive Governance Dashboards
- Chargeback Policy Automation and Reporting
- Cloud Resource and QOS Control
- Cloud Provider Performance Compliance
Description
Cloud Business Manager provides CIOs, Architects, Sourcing Managers and Finance executives with planning and simulation tools to make accurate decisions on initiatives, investments, and establish performance baselines while tracking compliance and governance. IT architects can view current utilization/performance assessments and setup transformation roadmaps and tracking dashboards. Sourcing and Finance Managers can execute the best sourcing strategy while tracking chargeback-based metering, billing and utilization assessment.
Features
- Cloud Transformation Planner
- My Cloud Services Catalog
- Cloud Sourcing and IT Supply Chain Simulator
- Cloud Financial Manager
Description
Application Architecture Manager includes a design and runtime component that enables IT architects and Environment Managers to model, configure, deploy and port application across cloud environments. Model-driven automation capabilities enable IT organization to blueprint, construct, deploy and scale application architectures using virtual software appliances.
Features
- 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
Description
Service Operations Manager provides IT managers with a new operations management console in the cloud that provides monitoring and performance management views of application workloads and infrastructure resources for a particular VDC. It integrates with integrated ticketing system and consolidated help desk services to deliver high QoS in the cloud. Predictive analytics provide an assessment of cloud systems health and identity areas of great risk for pro-active action.
Features
- VDC Infrastructure Resource Monitoring
- Application Performance Management
- Advanced Performance Analytics - Prediction & Root Cause Analysis
- Help Desk Services
- Operation Support Services for Audits, Compliance & Risk Management
Description
The Virtual Data Center Manager lets you create and manage virtual data centers by provisioning compute, storage and network from multiple cloud providers. Data Center Managers can dynamically place application workloads and provision data center resources through policy based governance.
Features
- Multi-Vendor Cloud Services
- Catalog Sizing and Prizing Templates
- Service Order and Tracking
- Multi-Vendor Resource Provisioning and Control (Private and/or Public)