Traditional IT infrastructures today are burdened with data center inefficiency. Most IT shops have little visibility into which applications are running on which servers. And in many IT organizations, provisioning a server for a new business application takes weeks and costs thousands of dollars - requiring multiple meetings among a large team of architects and engineers.
Whether the application is mission critical or not - whether for development, testing, or production - the traditional server provisioning process is cumbersome, painful, and slow. Each request comes with custom requirements, requiring approvals and exceptions. The result is a time-consuming and inefficient series of manual steps, involving
back-and-forth clarification and requirements validation.
IT can no longer afford to throw resources at this problem. Virtualization offers short-term capital expenditure relief, long-term cost savings, and a much faster provisioning process. And when cloud computing can deliver servers in 5 minutes for 10 cents an hour, IT faces pressure to explain why
in-house servers take so long and cost so much. IT can implement these technologies internally, yet it requires a change to the operating model for IT - and the dedicated physical server build process will still remain.
To address this challenge, the first step is to define standardized data center service offerings in a Service Catalog - with a solution that only newScale can deliver. Existing data center automation tools only manage the technical and machine aspects of provisioning. Vendor-specific tools for virtual machines are limited to proprietary server or storage technology at one layer of the stack. They don't address other silos such as network and middleware - nor do they provide operational support or governance. Tools for private and hybrid clouds are still developing and don't cover physical resources within the data center.
newScale provides an IT storefront and "e-commerce"-like operating model for data center automation. With self-service through an actionable Service Catalog, IT organizations can drive adoption of standards, eliminate the back-and-forth requirements gathering process, orchestrate automation across IT silos, and improve visibility into demand to help ensure more accurate capacity planning. And only newScale offers a Service Catalog solution to manage physical, virtual and cloud resources for today's multi-vendor, cross-platform infrastructure. The result: reduced cost and improved agility for the next generation data center.
To learn more, you can go to our Literature Request section to download the Data Sheet for the newScale FrontOffice Suite for the Virtual Data Center.
