ScaleXtreme adds more cloud management

Having been out on beta testing with several large Fortune 500 customers for a while, deploying complex applications and central IT control over their public cloud deployments, US-based ScaleXtreme has now formally announced general availability of its new Advanced Cloud Management product.

This includes a new workflow and orchestration system, autoscaling, multi-cloud management capabilities, and rich cloud access control capabilities that have already been tested on Amazon Web Services, Terremark Enterprise Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

The new management system is fully integrated with the company’s existing server management capabilities, including server and application monitoring, patch management, and job automation. This gives customers what the company claims is the broadest set of server, application and service management capabilities available in a single platform.

Enterprises are at various stages of building and adopting private and public cloud infrastructure – with a majority of them still running internal virtualised infrastructure. ScaleXtreme enables these organisations to both manage their existing infrastructure and gradually re-architect or port their applications to take advantage of public and private cloud capabilities, such as elastic capacity and having a single application spanning multiple clouds.

The company’s Enterprise Platform provides a wide range of capabilities, such as enabling the creation, deployment and management of enterprise cloud applications across private, public and hybrid cloud environments, autoscaling of cloud applications across clouds, enforced access control, governance, and compliance to multiple cloud environments, self-service access to enterprise cloud applications and services, on demand, and server management capabilities such as monitoring, patch management, provisioning and automation.

“As enterprises evolve their applications architecture to be increasingly cloud-based, they find themselves having to deal with multiple vendors and management tools,” said Nand Mulchandani, CEO and Co-Founder of ScaleXtreme. “There’s usually no 'clean break' between their legacy applications running on virtualised servers in their datacentre, and starting to deploy applications in the public cloud. ScaleXtreme helps IT deal with this complexity. Our Enterprise Platform gives them a single console with which to control all aspects of cloud application provisioning; while still giving them server management functionality for handling the underlying infrastructure on their existing applications.”