ManageIQ, which provides enterprise cloud management and automation solutions, today announced its membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program as a Cloud Management Partner, and its integration with NetApp's management software platform. The integration of ManageIQ’s Enterprise Virtualization Management (EVM) Suite with NetApp solutions enables comprehensive storage utilization and performance insight, on-demand provisioning and automated virtual server and desktop deployments for cloud computing environments.

"Our integration with NetApp’s industry-leading storage solutions will help customers increase agility, improve service delivery and reduce costs for their cloud infrastructures,” said Joseph Fitzgerald, ManageIQ CEO. “EVM is the first unified monitoring, management and automation solution built for enterprise clouds, and our customers are using it to transform the management of their global IT infrastructures. Our alliance partnership with NetApp will allow customers to extend their insight into cloud resource utilization and use policy-based control and automation to extract greater value from their cloud-based IT services.”

EVM provides the insight, control, integration, and automation capabilities needed to automate and accelerate service delivery and deploy cost-effective cloud and virtual computing. Built on the unique, patent-pending Adaptive Management Platform, EVM helps enterprises quickly get insight and visibility, establish controls and enforce policies, automate provisioning, delegate management activities and achieve strategic integration with closed-loop automation for IT processes. EVM enables IT organizations to increase agility through web-based self-service portals, catalog-driven automated provisioning, intelligent workload placement and process workflows including automated and exception based approvals. EVM also enables cost reductions through advanced resource monitoring, management and optimization, analytic-based rightsizing, over-allocation and waste detection, as well as cost transparency with chargeback.

NetApp collaborates with leading automation and analytic software vendors like ManageIQ to provide seamless integration with NetApp open-management APIs. This integration provides end-to-end cloud management, including full-stack orchestration, self-service portals, metering, and reporting. To learn more about NetApp’s cloud management partner solutions, visit http://www.youtube.com/user/NetAppTV#g/c/F2B53DC61A1B869D.