Market Segmentation Feature

With the needs of large enterprises and global service providers increasing rapidly and with cloud computing offering a compelling value proposition, IT cloud administrators are finding it increasingly difficult to tackle and manage issues arising out of virtualized environments. In keeping with its commitment to offer extending functionality and value, Abiquo announced the release of its flagship cloud management software, designed to offer business policy management support.

Abiquo (News - Alert) 1.7 was expected to be available in the next couple of months. The release includes advanced business policy support that will help IT cloud administrators to set, edit and manage business policies from a single, centralized policy editor. This would ensure that policies are consistently and automatically applied, without any user intervention.

With Abiquo 1.7, it will be possible for organization to set a broader range of resource limits at multiple physical and virtual levels, offer extended enterprise functionality and full branding support for service providers. With VMWare's vMotion, it can provide even deeper integration, automatically and seamlessly updating its own records to reflect movements initiated by VMware tools, and allows its highly regarded graphical user interface to be fully custom branded with no code changes. 

 Dave Linthicum, CTO and founder of Blue Mountain Labs, a strategic cloud computing consulting firm focused on moving enterprises and government agencies to the correct cloud computing solutions, indicated that lack of governance was the primary reason for cloud implementations failing -- and Abiquo's advanced business policy addressed the issue adequately and competently.

Abiquo 1.7 advanced business policy support was expected to add the control layer, which would allow organizations to build a scalable cloud infrastructure that would embrace all cloud models. Establishing and automatically managing business policies across all globally deployed resources from a single control would now be possible.

Other cloud management tools provided by operators were inadequate, as most of them provided specific allocation models, leaving other decisions to the operator. This resulted in the total absence of control, leading to potential governance, security failures, and no cost savings. Abiquo 1.7, on the other hand, by allotting virtual resources based on business and IT considerations, all rules can be applied at multiple levels and personalized regardless of the source of application.

Pete Malcolm (News - Alert), Abiquo CEO said that Abiquo 1.7 was capable of resolving all issues for the IT and application groups and was in a position handle governance and cost control.

Abiquo, a reputed enterprise cloud management software provider, offers customers immense value as are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed.

Abiquo, revealed that its enterprise edition product is gaining significant market traction, particularly among enterprises and hosting providers. A recent example is BlueFire, a leading managed and cloud IT provider and dimension data group company, which selected Abiquo because of its unique combination of advanced functionality and usability.