Tomorrow’s IT environments are going to be much more agile, service-oriented, multi-environments, technology agnostic than ever before, thanks to the increasing emergence of business functions having a major say in they want to utilize IT environments to maximize efficiencies and productivity. To stay ahead of this phenomenon, global enterprises are implementing multi-cloud environments using different providers, and in the process creating complicated and complex IT environments.
The solution to managing such a complex environment lies in adopting a robust Cloud Management Platform (CMP). As part of the endeavor to provide our customers best in class cloud management the Goodwill Enterprises provides CMP is a SaaS-based platform in a governor model (as opposed to the traditional gate keeper models available today), encompassing the largest and often used public, private and virtualized datacenter environments and a key component in the effective management of Infrastructure and PaaS environments. The Goodwill Enterprises CMP uses an integrated set of tools and automation capabilities to provide seamless management and business productivity. This eliminates the need for reserve or shadow IT to manage the world of containers, server-less and DevOps environments without impacting agility.
The journey of the Goodwill Enterprises CMP started in 2011 with several public, private and community cloud projects including our own orchestrator in 2012. The evolution from IaaS to PaaS to SaaS has been linear and resulted in a pragmatic and multi-disciplinary understanding of IT environments as they have evolved.
The Goodwill Enterprises CMP performs several functions, and not only with the resources it provisions, but also with anything that others provision. As a matter of fact, the governor model is given much more precedence than the provisioning engine. As a result, you don’t need to wait for the CMP upgrade if the principles have upgraded something in their system. You can simply start using it. Convenient isn’t it?
It has a host of different features, which the enterprises can use to effectively manage a cloud environment. These features include: Budget Control, Monitoring, Image Management, Metering/Billing, Remediation and DR, Configuration Management, Auto Remediation, Analytics and Dynamic CMDB to name a few.