OnApp
has announced the availability of OnApp for VMware vCloud Director, an
intuitive web and mobile portal designed to transform service delivery
for VMware vCloud Air Network service providers.
OnApp
for vCloud Director will be on show at Booth 228 at the VMware Partner
Exchange event from 3-5 February 2015, Moscone West, San Francisco.
Service providers can sign up now for the new portal and get more
information at onapp.com/vmware.
OnApp
for vCloud Director enables service providers to manage VMware-based
clouds, provision and bill for services, and provide the latest vCloud
Director features to their customers through fully customizable and
rebrandable web, iOS and Android portals.
OnApp
for vCloud Director supports all new functionality released in vCloud
Director 5.6, including VM monitoring and storage profiles. It brings
OnApp's extensive control of billing plans to vCloud Director
environments, as well as intuitive, self-service VM management for end
user/tenant operations.
"VMware
vCloud Director 5.6 is gaining momentum with VMware vCloud® AirTM
Network service providers," said Geoff Waters, vice president of service
provider channel, Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. "We are excited
to have OnApp as a partner. OnApp's Portal for vCloud Director offers
vCloud Air Network partners strong capability to accelerate deployment
of their VMware based hybrid cloud environments by enabling consumption
of a rich set of vCloud Director® features via the user interface."
"We
have more than 3,000 service providers using OnApp software, making
OnApp a widely used public cloud orchestration and provisioning portal
in the business," said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp. "OnApp is designed
for service providers, from the price model to bundled deployment and
24x7 support, and we're now bringing this approach to vCloud Director -
so anyone running a VMware-based cloud service can have a beautiful
portal, the latest vCloud Director® functionality and super-easy cloud
management - and get it all as a simple and affordable add-on to the
VMware points licensing they use today."
IndonesianCloud,
a long-term user of VMware vCloud Director and member of the VMware
vCloud Air Network, turned to OnApp to help enhance and simplify the end
user portal and experience for their public cloud services. Neil
Cresswell, CEO of IndonesianCloud said:
"Whilst
we have a state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure platform, the end user
portal lacks many of the features we wanted to provide for our clients.
We needed to revolutionize their customer experience and deliver a
robust, intuitive and simple portal that would provide complete
self-service for customer operations. The OnApp portal for vCloud
Director enables us to deliver that exceptional customer experience,
and has a commercial model that fits us perfectly as a service provider.
We are really looking forward to the GA release and further expanding
the depth and breadth of self-service operations we can bring to our
customers."
With the release of vCloud Director 5.6
last year, VMware announced that new vCloud Director functionality will
be available only through APIs and third party user interfaces, under
its ISV Partner Ecosystem program. OnApp for vCloud Director has been in
development for more than six months, and is the second OnApp product
to support VMware, following the 2012 introduction of VMware vCenter
support to the OnApp cloud platform. The release of the new version of
OnApp for vCloud Director follows an extensive beta testing program
involving more than 100 service providers.
Narendar
Shankar recently joined OnApp as President of OnApp USA to accelerate
adoption of the new portal for vCloud Director among VMware-based
service providers. Prior to OnApp, Shankar held product management roles
at VMware, Nexenta, Dell, NetApp, Cisco and Texas Instruments.
"OnApp
is transforming the way VMware service providers provision and manage
cloud services, just as it did for clouds based on open source
virtualization platforms," said Narendar Shankar, President of OnApp
USA. "Using OnApp with vCloud Director brings super-intuitive
provisioning and management to the vCloud Director environment, support
for the very latest features, much more granular billing control and a
streamlined user experience overall."
OnApp
for vCloud Director will be on show at Booth 228 at the VMware Partner
Exchange event from 3-5 February 2015, Moscone West, San Francisco. A
live demo and presentation will take place in the OnApp breakout session
on Wednesday February 4th at 11:30am.
Pricing and availability
Service providers can sign up for the new portal now at onapp.com/vmware.
The new portal is priced to enable all members of the vCloud Air
Network to take advantage, with licensing based on VMware's existing
points system, and including free installation and 24x7 global support.
OnApp for vCloud Director can be installed for new and existing vCloud
Director deployments. A fully-featured free version of OnApp for vCloud
Director, for vClouds with up to 16GB of vRAM, will also be made
available for pilot clouds as well as small production cloud
deployments.