Virtual machine sprawl is not only an issue because it represents a huge waste in licensing costs, but also in terms of the sheer amount of time and manpower needed to manage them.

Enterprises need to know how many images are in circulation, where are they and who maintains them to ensure their quality? They need discovery and inventory capabilities in place to manage the image estate.

Where are your images deployed?

The enterprise needs to understand who ‘owns’ them and who created them. They need to know who is maintaining them – for example, what process is in place for the multitude of ‘patches’ or ‘hotfixes’ that are applied? Who performs and tests the update? How many different teams are replicating the same work? How is the update applied? How long does this process take? How does this fit into change control, compliance policies and corporate governance?

Understand where your images are being used
Find non approved images and environments

Abiquo unifies disparate virtualised environments under one, single platform. Existing virtual machines can easily be integrated into the platform and gears the enterprise towards centralised ‘catalogue management’ for virtual machine development, management and control. Approved users and tenants can access the full, or part of the catalogue and focus on building solutions from them, while IT remains in control!