Cloudmation

What is cloudmation?

It’s a Cloud Automation Platform or Real-time Infrastructure for the Cloud.

It includes the ability to orchestrate management tools to build, provision, move and tear down virtual services between cloud, physical and virtual infrastructures.

How do you build automation for the cloud, what do you need to bring it together?

What are the key requirements?

1. The ability to act on events from applications or the infrastructure in a real-time or near real-time basis

2. The ability to build automation by linking tasks

a. Not by writing scripts or code
b. Link tasks into complex processes using workflows appropriate for IT operations teams

3. Tie this to the underlying infrastructure

a. Without scripts and code

b. Integrated to operating systems, data bases, servers, networks, applications and storage devices

c. Work out of the box with existing investments in systems management tools and technologies

Have a look at the Opalis video with footage of Charles Crouchman our CTO outlining some of the requirements a Cloud Automation Platform or Real-Time Infrastructure for the Cloud. Automation Attributes for Cloud.

Cloudmation, available from Opalis today.

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