Adaptive Operating Environment™ for Cloud Computing

When combined with the self-service Moab Cloud Portal, the Adaptive Operating Environment™ delivers an ideal architecture for utility-based computing environments, whether intended as private, public, or "cloud of clouds" environments.

The architectural foundations of next-generation (adaptive) data centers, private clouds, and public clouds are extremely similar. Each requires that the infrastructure behave as a virtual pool of shared resources. Application services need to be made available as an abstracted layer, separated from any dependency on specific physical resources. Finally, a data center-level operating system that can intelligently orchestrate the deployment of application services and resources according to organizational policy and priorities must be able to automate and govern the entire environment.

The ownership of the resources and the business model by which users access resources make the distinction between the adaptive data center and cloud-based systems, whether private or public.

When Moab is combined with a site's preferred middleware in the Adaptive Operating Environment™, it enables a next-generation cloud to deliver true resource ownership, as well as guaranteed access to both resources and services based on service-level agreements (SLAs).