Here’s a question you might be hearing from your IT leaders, or perhaps from the little voice in your own head: “How can I optimize my environment without cobbling together a bunch of different management solutions?”
That question resonated with a roomful of people with whom we met earlier this month for a Nimble Storage and Embotics Lunch-and-Learn: Moving Your Business to a Private Cloud: Agility, Performance and Cost Savings. In the time it took to eat lunch, we explained how IT can:
- leverage existing infrastructure to evolve data centers to private clouds;
- optimize private clouds by reacting to capacity and performance issues in real-time through a single infrastructure view solution; and
- improve quality of service by automating workflow and processes by giving staff access to a self-service portal for change requests.
The discussion we had with the more than 25 IT leaders who attended our lunch-and-learn session focused on private cloud automation and its ability to create integrated, powerful private cloud solutions. For many in the room, this was welcome information, and we’re looking forward to the follow-up conversations scheduled for the coming weeks.
Companies come to us in various stages of cloud readiness. They fall somewhere between acclimation and optimization on the maturity spectrum, but all are concerned about what they will find when they reach their end goal. How will the private cloud differ from virtualization infrastructure?
To borrow an analogy inspired by our lunchtime discussion, it’s kind of like balancing the way a restaurant manages its kitchen versus the way it delivers the steak. Once you get to the cloud, the task becomes more about managing consumption rather than infrastructure. This is what we hear again and again from vendors, partners, service providers and customers.
Embotics cooks up the building blocks to help IT climb toward the cloud. Often, this means immediately adopting priority items like self-service portals and catalogs; automated service request, workflow and lifecycle capabilities; and chargeback functions. You don’t have to cobble together a bunch of different management solutions to optimize your environment. A single virtualization and private cloud management approach is far easier to digest.
