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. 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 appropriate resource limits
Through an industry leading ‘self service’ interface, IT operations can place pre configured, secured and optimised virtual solutions right infront of the customer – available in seconds, not days.
Complex governance and compliance rules are a reality for many enterprise organizations, especially those with international operations. Examples include information boundaries, whereby the data and applications of two different groups must not be allowed to co-exist on the same physical device, in the same rack, or even in the same datacenter – for example the Research and Investment Banking operations of a financial services organization.
Data boundaries, such as those impose by the European Union, prohibit the transmission of data beyond a country boundary – including, for example, an individual’s HR records. Therefore, the UK HR team must be limited to using only UK located data centers.
Abiquo business policy allows such rules to be set with ease, ensuring that relevant governance and compliance rules are automatically adhered to across the organization as necessary.
Guarantee data boundaries
With a full role-based access model, 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 limits you determine. Resource limits determine the total amount of virtual resources each enterprise can consume, for example CPU cores, memory, hypervisor and managed storage, VLANs and public IP addresses. Resource limits are enforced, such that while authorized enterprises can delegate resources to sub-tenant virtual datacenters, collectively they cannot be exceeded. Accordingly, IT Operations can ensure that virtual resources never exceed physical capabilities – unless the organization intentionally decides to use a controlled over-sell model.
Operational limits ensure that virtual enterprises only have access to appropriate physical resources. For example, they can be limited to selected physical datacenters (or have resource limits applied to particular physical datacenters), be limited to using dedicated servers, and/or have their access to public networks controlled.
By default, each virtual datacenter is automatically isolated, with its own dedicated VLAN, such that even if a datacenter is permitted open public access, other datacenters cannot be exposed. You can also elect to have IP addresses allocated from an internal pool, using any selected address range. Internal networks can be created to link physical datacenters if desired.
Business policy also provides for full control over where each operational unit can place data or run applications. For example, a policy rule applied to a team running sensitive business applications can limit operation to data centers actually owned by the organization, thereby eliminating public clouds and MSP hosted hardware as potential locations for those applications.
Conversely, a team running non-sensitive applications, such as public web servers, may be eligible to use public clouds and/or MSP hosted hardware, or could even have those locations designated as preferred to minimize cost.
Abiquo ensure you remain in control.