Cloud computing service models present significant additional challenges to enterprise IT processes and staff already challenged by the increased complexity and management issues of virtualization. The right balance between the cloud user’s control and autonomy, that enable greater business agility with controls, and processes, which insure the reliable delivery of cloud-based services, is critical to the manageability, scalability and, ultimately, the success of private cloud environments. Achieving and maintaining that balance, as customer momentum grows and as infrastructures and virtualization technologies continue to rapidly evolve, requires a flexible set of management and automation tools that enable the widest range of self-management activities, while simultaneously providing the policy-based visibility, control, automation, and integration necessary for IT process effectiveness and customer support.

ManageIQ Solutions for Private Clouds include:

• Self-Service - web-based portal enables self-service provisioning, lifecycle management and real-time operational control as well visibility into performance, utilization and events.
• Service Catalog - policy-based, catalog-driven request management for virtualized IT services from the EVM self-service portal as well as enterprise service catalog integration.
• Automated Provisioning - automated provisioning dramatically reduces service delivery times with and appropriately configured services.
• Lifecycle Management - complete lifecycle management from provisioning and discovery through maintenance and retirement, including automatic aging, tracking and monitoring.

For more information on ManageIQ Private Cloud solutions:

• Self-Service Provisioning and Management
• Governance, Tracking and Compliance
• Cost Allocation, Chargeback and Usage
• VM Lifecycle Management
• Resource Optimization and Capacity Planning
• Reporting, Analytics, and Visualization