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Cloud brokerage Jim Darragh
compliance and governance problems. IT organisations are realising they have a responsibility to help improve the provisioning and consumption of distributed and often complex cloud services for internal and external users, and prevent teams going outside the organisation for their cloud requirements.
There are applications out there that are available now and can provide an organisation with a controlled, unified platform that allows them to access a self service catalogue of IT approved and tested solutions immediately ‘off the shelf’ and prevents them looking outside the business for that level of ser- vice, agility and time to market. These platforms can integrate disparate technologies both in and outside the organisation and enable companies to manage multiple clouds. In this environment, dashboards allow companies to easily monitor and manage the alloca- tion, usage and consumption of available resources within distributed data centres and clouds. These applications, which Abiquo provides, allow IT admins to control where infrastructure is, who is using it, how much is in use, as well as billing and resourc- ing. Dashboards allow IT admins to centrally manage their computing, storage and networking technolo- gies, enabling them to see, at a glance, a global view of available resources, optimise them and respond to their changing needs in minutes.
Managing ConTrol
Managing multiple clouds in one unified platform further offers IT companies an upgraded level of control which they may not have had before. Using unified applications, IT departments can define rules for security, compliance, energy requirements and utilisation of cloud technologies. In the era of the mobile worker, worries about data access and security keep CIOs up at night. Having an application in place
KEY SPEAKER
Jim Darragh is speaking at Cloud Expo on Tuesday 29th January at 11:30am in the Service Providers & the Channel conference stream.
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Typically, there are a multitude of challenges that enterprises have to resolve in their journey towards providing cloud services
where rules can be defined means security teams can be confident in how, who, when and what uses the cloud, which further helps to minimise the time that IT departments spend managing a cloud environment.
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TEChnology EnablEs suCCEss In today’s competitive business environment; an agile
IT environment can be a great advantage. The Abiquo cloud management platform enables a business to maximise the potential of their IT infrastructure to further business goals. Enterprises can quickly evolve their approach to provisioning and delivering solutions across the business and significantly improve their operational efficiencies.
Businesses should have the flexibility to de- velop sticky, user friendly cloud services which they can monetise via a flexible billing engine, enabling new revenue streams through charge back and show forward models. Technology shouldn’t be an issue for businesses, it should be an enabler and it’s becoming more apparent self service cloud is vital in ensuring businesses are more successful thanks to technology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jim Darragh
Jim joined abiquo as CEo in september 2012. Prior to this he held the position of svP & general Manager of the stingray business unit at riverbed Technology, a role he began in July 2011 following his influential leadership as CEo at Zeus Technology. Jim has experience across the industry including saP, Ca Technologies and bMC software.
CCI Magazine January 2013
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