Citrix today announced availability of CloudPortal™ Business Manager
2.0, a cloud services delivery platform that enables enterprises and
service providers to unify the commerce, user management, provisioning
and operational aspects of a cloud into a single cloud interface for
delivering anything as a service (XaaS). CloudPortal Business Manager
2.0 allows cloud builders to transform general purpose cloud
infrastructures into consumable business services, shifting the role of
IT from gatekeeper to strategic cloud services broker by enabling an
agile IT-as-a-Service model. Today’s news further expands the Citrix
vision for helping businesses of all types and sizes build clouds the
way the world’s most successful clouds are built.
Operating a cloud as a business, internally or externally, can be a
difficult task without the right set of tools to connect cloud services
to business operations and end-users. For today’s cloud architects,
building infrastructures to meet elasticity and resource pooling
requirements of the cloud is already well-defined – the challenge has
been delivering cloud services in a meaningful and accessible way to all
users, technical and non-technical.
With CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0, businesses can move their cloud
services strategy beyond Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to include
applications, workloads and services with a powerful platform for
metering, managing and delivering them to users via a simple,
self-service catalog. Open and extensible, administrators can also
leverage the newly available SDKs and APIs for CloudPortal Business
Manager 2.0 to offer best-of-breed third-party or in-house cloud
services that seamlessly integrate with existing business and operations
systems.
What is New?
New key features of CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 include:
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Custom Cloud Services Catalog – Create a custom catalog of
services including IaaS, cloud, 3rd party, value-add and IT services
that are delivered to users through a simple, self-service interface.
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Extensible Platform – Leverage the partner ecosystem and newly
available SDKs and APIs to seamlessly deliver any service (IaaS, PaaS,
storage, etc.) while broadening the portfolio of services to
differentiate and increase the value of the cloud.
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Complete Cloud Visibility – Give users a single, comprehensive
view of their cloud services, including availability, system health,
performance, account status, utilization, billing, helpdesk and alerts.
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Metering and Monitoring – Track service usage with real-time
reports and proactively monitor system health with built-in alerts.
Generate customized reports for current and historical activity with
drill-down analytics.
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Workflow Approvals – Define workflow rules for new user
activation and service provisioning to ensure departmental
requirements and budget approvals are met.
Quotes
Sameer Dholakia, Group VP and GM, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix
“Designed in close partnership with Citrix CloudPlatform customers
around the world, CloudPortal Business Manager is empowering cloud
builders to integrate offerings into their existing business operations
and ensure a seamless end-user self-service experience. As many Citrix
cloud builders look beyond IaaS, CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0
provides them the open architecture they need as they plan migrations to
complete IT-as-a-Service offerings.”
Mark Goros, CEO, Caringo
“The demand for enterprise IT departments and service providers to
introduce new managed services has never been greater. Citrix
CloudPortal Business Manager delivers a solution that allows providers
to rapidly deploy new services which their customers can easily select,
purchase and use. Caringo is pleased to have integrated our enterprise
class object storage with CloudPortal Business Manager and worked
closely with Citrix to ensure organizations can provide a highly
scalable and easy to manage cloud storage service with just a few
clicks. The combined solution radically simplifies cloud storage
deployment, and enables organizations to leverage the same metering and
user management systems as their other cloud services.”
Jay Desai, VP, Product Management, Cloudian
“Citrix and Cloudian share a common commitment to making it easy for any
enterprise or service provider to deploy powerful, cost-effective
clouds. The Cloudian Storage Platform is already fully integrated with
Citrix CloudPlatform, enabling seamless deployment of S3-compatible
cloud storage quickly and cost-effectively, as well as offering
secondary storage. Now, with our upcoming integration with CloudPortal
Business Manager, we are bringing IT-as-a-service and
Storage-as-a-Utility one step closer to being realities.”
Craig McElroy, Chief Technology Officer, Contegix
“The self-service interface and granular account management that
CloudPortal Business Manager provides allows us to perfectly balance the
administrative control and end-user self-service requirements of our
enterprise private cloud customers.”
Anthony Lobretto, VP, Engineering and Technology Solutions, DBR360
“Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 gives us the operational
control we need to deliver self-service cloud continuity offerings
beyond IaaS. The new CloudService SDK enables us to deliver a custom set
of differentiated services that provides enterprises complete control of
their computing resources to support their mission critical
applications.”
Simon Withers, VP, Global Cloud Product, SunGard Availability Services
“SunGard Availability Services delivers a suite of Enterprise Cloud
Services, which includes the recent release of our public cloud service
powered by Apache CloudStack in Europe. With this recent addition of
public cloud services in partnership with Citrix, SunGard Availability
Services provides customers access to our public cloud customer portal
delivering a customized set of public cloud services via Citrix
CloudPortal Business Manager. The open design of the CloudPortal
Business Manager 2.0 platform provides SunGard Availability Services
with even greater flexibility to enhance our public cloud interface and
best meet our customer’s needs.”
Related Links
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Blog: When
is a Cloud a Cloud? The
Importance of Self-Service
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Blog: Introducing
Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0
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