Cirba
Inc., the leading provider of software-defined infrastructure
control solutions, today announced workload routing and management
support for hybrid cloud environments that include Microsoft
Azure, Amazon
Web Services (AWS) and IBM SoftLayer.
"Cirba provides the necessary decision control point for automatically
determining where applications can safely run in hybrid environments. It
is only through detailed analysis of application requirements against
the security, cost, and technical capabilities of available public
clouds and internal infrastructures that the best hosting environment
can be chosen," said Andrew Hillier, co-founder and CTO of Cirba.
"Without analytics, organizations cannot automate the process nor can
they effectively determine how to meet application requirements without
risk or excessive cost."
Available from Cirba today are new integrations to Microsoft
Azure, Amazon
Web Services (AWS) and IBM SoftLayer
that provide centralized management for enterprise applications across
hybrid cloud environments. Cirba customers will now have extended
visibility into applications that are hosted externally and whether they
are appropriately resourced. They will also be able to assess these
applications against on-premise hosting environments to determine
whether they should be brought back in-house. With this announcement,
Cirba extends its existing support for internal VMware vCenter,
Microsoft Hyper-V, IBM PowerVM on AIX and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization-based environments to external clouds so that customers
can seamlessly manage hybrid cloud environments.
Through an update to its Reservation Console to be released this summer,
Cirba will also automate the process of determining the best hosting
environment for applications by simultaneously assessing them against
both public clouds and internal environments. In doing so, Cirba's
analytics eliminate hosting risk by ensuring all the critical criteria
are considered, including compute, storage and network requirements,
security considerations, compliance requirements, software licensing
requirements and other operational policies. This capability is
underpinned by a rich web services API, and will enable fully-automated
workflows.
Hillier added, "Having a centralized policy-based control system for
hybrid cloud that provides the necessary checks and balances is
critical. Determining where a workload should be hosted and how
resources are allocated is fundamental to modern IT infrastructure, and
providing automation and governance around this is at the core of cloud
and software-defined operational models."