Cloupia Powers Enterprises and Service Providers with Enhanced Cloud Automation Offerings

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Cloupia Powers Enterprises and Service Providers with Enhanced Cloud Automation Offerings

Private, Hybrid and Dynamic Data Center Automation and Management Solutions

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloupia, a cloud infrastructure management and automation software provider, today announced enhanced cloud offerings to help enterprises and service providers transition to next generation dynamic data centers. With Cloupia's cloud automation offerings, customers can build and manage IaaS private and public clouds swiftly and securely. These new offerings will enable enterprises and service providers to easily transition to clouds by offering one integrated comprehensive cloud platform with unified management across entire IT infrastructure -- physical, virtual and cloud.

"Cloupia continues to provide the next generation dynamic data center solutions with flexible licensing controls and components to help customers with evolutionary cloud adoption, low cost of entry and speed of deployment," said Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, Vice President of Engineering & Product Development. "We are providing end-to-end comprehensive cloud infrastructure management with pre-integrated cloud suites that avoids separate management interfaces and integration overhead." All of the following offerings are pre-integrated software packages that come in a downloadable virtual appliance format.

    --  Private Cloud Suite: Enables organizations to build secure and
        multi-tenant private clouds within the firewalls and security of IT
        organization. The private cloud suite provides simplified provisioning
        and deployment to end users through self-service provisioning portal. It
        also provides unified and integrated management to the administrators
        across the IT organization with the role-based policies and access
        control.

    --  Public IaaS Cloud Suite: Provides most comprehensive solution and fully
        featured automation framework for service providers to build IaaS
        clouds. This suite offers pre-integrated cloud platform with end-to-end
        controls and top to bottom visibility. This suite provides lowest cost
        of entry into market with incremental growth options and also provides
        capabilities for flexible revenue models. With this suite, service
        providers can offer self-service provisioning, management and
        administration to its customers.

    --  Hybrid Cloud Suite: Enables organizations to manage and control hybrid
        cloud environments that combine both private and public clouds. It
        provides application mobility and cloud bursting between the clouds. It
        offers single pane of glass and common management framework to manage
        both private and public clouds. This suite allows enterprises to extend
        their data centers securely to public clouds.

    --  Cloud-in-a-Box using Cisco UCS, NetApp & VMware: A turnkey solution to
        build private clouds with minimal configuration requirements using
        bundled compute, storage and network resources. The Cloupia's
        Cloud-in-a-Box solution consists of Cisco UCS platform, NetApp Unified
        storage, VMware ESX Hypervisor Server & Cloupia Unified Infrastructure
        Controller. This solution can be used as a building block for new
        private clouds and dynamic data center build-outs by Service Providers
        and Enterprises. The Cloupia's Cloud-in-a-Box solution offers
        self-service portal, multi-tenant security, monitoring and provisioning
        capabilities.

Cloupia's unified cloud platform -- Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) is the first fully featured unified and integrated cloud platform that provides end-to-end cloud infrastructure management solution. Cloupia also provides rich unified cloud platform API for customers to extend existing IT infrastructures to clouds. The CUIC architecture is comprised of modular components that give customers flexibility and choice to integrate with their existing IT environments. Customers have flexible controls to manage and extend their IT environments to clouds with multiple physical, virtual and cloud connectors. The CUIC consists of the following six components that can be licensed together or separately.

    --  Integrated Resource Lifecycle Manager: The Cloupia Integrated Resource
        Lifecycle Manager provides discovery, monitoring, reporting and
        lifecycle management capabilities across multiple private and public
        clouds. It helps you bridge islands of storage, server, networking and
        service management functions. It provides a unified control that most
        organizations are looking for to manage physical, virtual and external
        cloud environments.

    --  Operations Automation Center: The Cloupia Operations Automation Center
        provides automated operational reporting, event management, alarm
        management & change management IT functions. It reduces operational
        costs and automates day-to-day routine IT operational tasks. It provides
        unprecedented real-time visibility with compelling visualization tools
        to improve the overall troubleshooting and MTTR.

    --  Continuous Capacity Manager: The Cloupia Continuous Capacity Manager
        continuously monitors, stores and reports capacity across physical,
        virtual and cloud environments. Cloupia's patented CloudSense(TM)
        Analytics provides visibility into entire infrastructure resources
        utilization, critical performance metrics across IT infrastructure
        stack, and capacity in real time. It significantly improves capacity
        trending, forecasting and planning of virtual and cloud infrastructures.

    --  Chargeback: The Cloupia Chargeback provides cost management, monitoring
        and reporting capabilities. It provides flexible cost models and
        detailed resource accounting reports. These detailed resource accounting
        details can be rolled into VM level, group level chargeback summary
        reports and these records can be integrated into existing enterprise
        billing systems.

    --  Service Delivery Orchestrator: Cloupia's service delivery orchestrator
        is a complete end-to-end service delivery platform that provides service
        creation, publishing, governance and management. At the core of
        Cloupia's unified cloud platform, the service delivery orchestrator
        automates deployment and delivery of Infrastructure services. It
        includes policy engine, workflow engine, scheduler components along with
        service management functions.

    --  Self-service Portal: Cloupia's Self-Service portal provides on-demand
        provisioning and access to shared infrastructure to create, deploy and
        reconfigure servers and applications in minutes. It has built-in
        workflows with pre-define policies and multi-step approval processes.
        End users can get complete visibility into provisioned applications
        resource utilization, accounting and associated costs.

Pricing and Availability:

Cloupia CUIC 2.4 is now generally available. Cloupia offers a free 30-day trial edition. For pricing information and evaluations, contact sales@cloupia.com.

Related Links:

Cloupia Products and Solutions

CUIC Product Information

CUIC Technical Information

Datasheet

About Cloupia

Cloupia unlocks the power of next-generation cloud computing for organizations, offering a suite of cloud computing products & solutions. Cloupia's products and solutions address the complex challenges of building, deploying and managing a wide variety of applications and IT services in both public and private cloud environments. Cloupia's vendor-neutral platform enables organizations to fully exploit cloud technologies and options, without compromising existing operations and investments. Cloupia is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit http://www.cloupia.com.

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SOURCE  Cloupia

Cloupia

CONTACT: Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, Cloupia, +1-408-988-1111, bhaskar@cloupia.com

Web Site: http://www.cloupia.com

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