Cloupia's Cloud Unified Infrastructure Controller in a YouTube demo
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After demoing its iPad data center orchestration app CloudGenie at VMworld 2011 in August, Cloupia (www.cloupia.com) launched Open Automation for Clouds this week, a beta extension of its existing cloud automation and management solution Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller, that allows customers and partners to customize the solution with their own modules.
Cloupia announced the availability of its latest version of CUIC at the end of August. The solution allows organizations to build internal private clouds, and manage public clouds. With an emphasis on vendor neutrality and multi-cloud capability, the solution provides end-to-end management and automation through a single-pane of glass.
The new capability enables customers to automatically add multiple infrastructure and cloud vendors as an extension of their data centers as well as automate many administrative and operational tasks, according to the press release.
In an interview with the WHIR, Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, VP of products and marketing at Cloupia says its CUIC solution also provides monitoring, management, provisioning and orchestration across physical, virtual and external cloud environments.
“Enterprises use our solution to build out internal clouds and also to provide IT as a service,” he says. “They are also using it for lab management, for hybrid cloud management, and for private and public clouds.”
Service providers, on the other hand, use it to transform their existing static infrastructure into infrastructure as a service like Rackspace or Amazon, Krishnamsetty says.
Cloupia says its solution supports Cisco, UCS and HP servers, NetApp storage and is integrated into Amazon, Rackspace, Terremark and Savvis clouds.
“We not only provide the virtual infrastructure management, but we go one level deeper and provide the physical infrastructure automation and management as well,” Krishnamsetty says. “One more distinction is you have a single pane of glass where you are not only managing and monitoring your internal cloud but also …if you have applications in say Amazon or Rackspace you can manage everything using a single pane of glass.”
Krishnamsetty says another important feature of its solution is the orchestration capabilities.
“Using orchestrator [customers] can definitely automate a lot of workflows, but now we are taking it to the next level by providing a platform,” he says. “What does that mean? Our customers and partners can extend or add-on their own modules on top of it. For example, we provide extensive analytics and reports but a lot of these service providers would like some of their own reports, now they can easily do that. They want to integrate into their own systems, now they can do that.”
Cloupia provides evaluation software, a software development kit, documentation and training for partners and customers, according to the press release.
“Our vision, our strategy is we want to empower them and enable our partners so that they can leverage all of the rich functionality underlaying we provide plus they want to create their own modules and resell it to other customers,” he says.
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