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It’s a fact that departments who need a development and test environment need it quickly – inevitably, it’s the IT department who become the bottle-neck in the approvals and provisioning process. Therefore, application and business dev-ops workgroups will look to the outside world and buy a service (usually unauthorised) from Amazon Web Services or the like.

This can result in the creation and deployment of multiple virtual machines without the knowledge of IT which in turn creates an ever-growing population of unregulated and uncontrolled images with all of the associated compliance and governance problems.

This situation clearly needs tight management and control but without stifling the creativity, quality and agility of the development organisation – With a full role-based access model, Abiquo enables you define the level of flexibility your users enjoy, from a simple application provisioning portal through to a complete virtual enterprise, each of which is autonomous within Resource and access limits the IT organisation determines.

Abiquo provides the IT organisation with full control of their virtualised environments, users operate within the boundaries that you determine, with an appropriate level of functionality according to their operational group, role and level of sophistication.

Set granular user privileges and retain control

Automated, policy driven multi-tenancy provides automatic segregation between the various application and development groups, while providing full control over critical concerns such as resource consumption and network access.Set the user resource limits.

Set the user resource limits

Abiquo enables the IT organisation to retain control and give users in the business what they need – the true benefits of the cloud – Self-service, Network access and bandwidth to the cloud, Resource pooling, Service elasticity, Speedy deployment.