Application and business development teams need to request new services quickly and simply – not doing so today increases the likelihood of them looking outside the business to public cloud solutions that fulfil their needs. They don’t want to spend days manually placing and managing requests through antiquated, laborious processes. They want it now.

With Abiquo, manual provisioning of your services becomes a thing of the past. Entirely automated, from deploying virtual machines, creating storage volumes and mapping LUNs, through managing IP addresses and VLANs, Abiquo does it all for you, according to pre-defined business and operational policies.

Provide controlled self-service resources

You have not lost control by allowing users to self service themselves from internal, private, controlled cloud solutions, but you will lose control of IT by letting users look and acquire services elsewhere on the public internet for that flexibility and agility that they need.

Abiquo results in no more frustrated users, no more provisioning mistakes, no more spending hours working out the best place to locate virtual assets, and an end to virtual sprawl and improved SLA delivery performance. The IT Operations team is freed from provisioning drudgery to focus on managing the infrastructure at the required service levels, service development and efficient capacity planning.

Abiquo also recognizes that self-service clouds need to co-exist with more traditional application environments. Features like infrastructure reservation allows you to assign specific devices for the exclusive use of particular applications or user communities, yet still are managed collectively.