Abiquo integrates with a wide range of virtualisation and infrastructure technologies – all of the major hypervisors, storage solutions and network standards are considered and simply unified into a single, shared pool of physical computing resources controlled, allocated and managed by the IT organization. Elimination of vendor lock-in. Even if the organization does not immediately plan to move to lower cost solutions, the fact that they have the ability to do so materially improves their negotiating ability.

Existing cloud infrastructures can be simply brought under Abiquo management to give the business the oversight it needs to remain in control of the enterprise and delegates management of virtualized enterprises for authorised users within appropriate, defined resource limits and automatically distributes workloads according to policy.

Understand the virtualised infrastructure

Self-service provisioning (and decommissioning) by the consumers of computing resources in their own timescale and is developed using open standards and interoperability, including features such as automatic conversion between hypervisor types.

Abiquo yields a significant reduction in the workload of the IT infrastructure organisation, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks, in addition to drastic improvement in utilisation, both through policy based workload management, and by the incentive for “customers” to decommission unused machines to release resources for their own re-use.

Internal customers will have dramatically reduced provisioning times for the services they need, increasing business performance and agility and make short term and “what-if” projects feasible. – And let’s not forget about reduced energy costs, cooling and space requirements.