The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller as Platform
Cloupia provides building blocks to build and manage next generation dynamic data centers. The
Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller as a Platform provides comprehensive infrastructure control, provisioning, management and monitoring across physical, virtual and cloud environments. The CUIC Platform enables you to easily design, deploy and manage your business applications in the cloud. The Cloupia platform enables enterprises to move existing applications to the cloud with minimum engineering effort and without any vendor lock-in risks.
The CUIC platform reduces the complexities of development and delivery so that you get applications that are far more interactive, reliable, scalable and secure. Using CUIC Platform, you should be able to choose the right cloud infrastructure for your unique requirements, and manage deployments across clouds, both public and private, so that you never get locked in to a single provider. This platform can be installed behind your corporate firewall, inside data centers, or within a public IaaS provider. The CUIC Platform provides complete cloud application life cycle management capabilities. It reduces complexity and administrative burden with automation across the cloud deployment life cycle. The CUIC platform also gives you control of computing systems to ensure compliance with business and IT policies.
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| The Cloupia’s Open Automation for Clouds (OAC) is intended to give flexibility and expandability. Typical data centers are heterogeneous in nature and any automation technology cannot be limited to a limited set of protocols and systems. The Open Automation for Clouds enables customers to add multiple infrastructure and cloud vendors as an extension of the data center and lets them take control of systems and applications. The Cloupia OAC enables organizations to automate infrastructure and cloud management with minimum engineering effort and without any vendor lock-in risks.
Data center infrastructure must be more responsive, quickly adapting to changes in application requirements. Cloupia’s Open Automation for Clouds provides complete SDK to extend existing data center management and operations automation in addition to out-of-box CUIC cloud automation capabilities. Cloupia’s Open Automation for Clouds provides an “Open” interface for Cloupia customers & partners to modify, add or enhance functionality of Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller to deliver any cloud management and automation use case. IT administrators can customize and automate many infrastructure administrative and operational tasks using this platform. IT teams can build and execute repeatable physical and virtual infrastructure provisioning workflows without complex custom scripts and expensive system integration engagements.
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- What can partners/customers do using Open Automation?
Partner will be able to implement very complex Cloud /Datacenter Automation and Management use cases on top of CUIC
- Minor customizations
- Integration with other enterprise systems
- Additional infrastructure connectors
- Additional management features
- What does Open Automation for Clouds framework include?
Cloupia will provide
- Eval Software
- SDK
- Documentation
- Training + Lab
- What skills are required for Cloupia’s Open Automation?
Java or Java script developers to develop add-on modules. Additional language support to be available in future releases.
- Who will develop these modules and where will these modules run?
Module is an entity that runs on top of Cloupia’s CUIC platform and developed either by Cloupia or by a 3rd party or by Customer or by the Community
- What components of cloud stack can users automate using Open Automation?
Users can manage and/or automate one or more of the following in a Cloud stack
- Physical Infrastructure
- Virtual Infrastructure
- Application Infrastructure
- Applications
- Business Processes
- What functions can users customize or extend using Open Automation?
- Reports
- Analytics
- Workflows and Tasks
- Automation Trigger Definitions
- Default Policies
- Scheduled Tasks
- Data Collection Mechanisms
- Cost Models
- Integration Points
- How do you register as Cloupia’s Open Automation for Clouds partner?
Open Automation for Clouds is for limited availability only. If you are interested to become Open Automation partner, contact partners@cloupia.com
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