Talligent, the leading
provider of cost and capacity management solutions for OpenStack and hybrid
clouds, today announced the general availability of Openbook v3 and is
scheduling demos
and evaluations of its new functionality. Openbook is cloud management software that
simplifies the tasks of planning, charging, and predicting capacity
requirements for cloud services. Talligent
gives the administrator and tenant real-time visibility of resources and
accrued costs, as well as the ability to scale up or down according to budget
and resource requirements.
Enterprise
adoption of OpenStack is growing quickly, driven by the interest in providing
on-demand cloud services behind the firewall.
Private cloud deployments increase the agility of IT departments to
respond to infrastructure requests, increase control of company digital assets,
and reduce the need for shadow IT services from public cloud providers. In response to this increase in market
demand, Talligent has added functionality to support private cloud use cases
such as chargeback, utilization tracking for sprawl control, single pane of
glass view of hybrid clouds, and capacity reporting to improve resource and
budget planning of cloud growth.
"Talligent
is helping bring new and useful features to the OpenStack vendor ecosystem,
giving users greater choice and flexibility in how they manage capacity and
cost in private and hybrid scenarios," said Jonathan Bryce, executive
director of the OpenStack Foundation. "In a short period of time, they've
introduced and iterated their product based on feedback from users and the
community, and we're looking forward to seeing what they'll bring to market and
to our community next."
The release of Openbook
v3 is based on several months of close interaction and detailed feedback from operators
of large scale private and public clouds based on OpenStack and VMware. The refined feature set available in v3
includes:
- Clear reports of utilization
and growth trends at the cloud provider, business unit, cost center, and tenant
level for capacity and budget planning.
- A VMware adapter to support
hybrid cloud environments and provide costs comparisons of workloads running in
VMware or OpenStack instances. Azure
support is coming soon.
- Enhanced chargeback and
showback reporting that rolls up multiple tenants to a single cost center,
while also providing ad hoc drill down of the detail resource consumption and
associated costs.
- The ability to include non-OpenStack
infrastructure elements, custom metrics, or services into rates plans and
billing models via API or user-defined fields.
"Talligent's
mission is to help companies run their private or public clouds as a
business. Successful, cost competitive
cloud operations are a delicate balancing act between supply and demand," said
Sanjay Mishra, CEO of Talligent. "Cloud
subscribers expect fully elastic, instantly available cloud services. Cloud providers have to accurately plan for
this demand while balancing budgets and encouraging efficient use. Openbook solves this problem by providing
subscribers and providers with clear visibility of cloud costs, assigned and
consumed resources, and utilization with an out of the box, easy to deploy
solution."
Within a
private cloud deployment, cloud subscribers need to know how much resources
have been allocated for their project, what those resources cost, and how much
has been consumed so that they can budget and allocate resources appropriately. The cloud provider needs a holistic view of
the cloud capacity and consumption, as well as the ability to drill down to
tenant and business units in order to add capacity in a timely manner. Openbook v3 is designed to provide actionable
data to both the cloud subscriber and cloud providers.
OpenBook v3 is compatible with Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, and Liberty
releases of OpenStack and is available via the
Canonical Juju
Charm store,
Heat template, or
Fuel
plug-in. Talligent is closely aligned with the key
distribution partners to ensure compatibility and ease of deployment for our
customers. Evaluations and
demonstrations of the latest release are available by request from Talligent (
http://talligent.com/openbook-v3-launch/).