With the Moab Adaptive Computing Suite™ you can create a cloud environment that has the agility to respond quicker to business requests, has dramatically higher resource utilization to reduce costs, and is intelligently automated across IT processes to reduce management effort, costs and business disruption. Moab Adaptive Computing Suite provides the intelligence to manage your cloud infrastructure in its initial phases and as it evolves to accommodate more workloads and users, enabling it to be agile, automated and adaptive—three essential abilities for long-term cloud success.

Using Cloud Computing to Address Today's IT and Business Challenges:

Cloud computing offers a tremendous opportunity to solve critical challenges in the data center to better serve the business. IT services support so many of the business processes and opportunities today, that IT departments can't deliver IT services quick enough to meet business demand using current manual request and delivery processes. This escalating demand for IT services has led to spiraling capital costs that must be reduced, and sprawled, siloed physical and virtual resources that are not utilized to their full capacity. All of this complexity also means inefficient manual and siloed management which overburdens IT staff and budgets.

Cloud computing holds the promise for IT management to transform their data centers from a cost center to a service provider with on-demand service requests, and hardware abstracted from software to form pools of shared resources that can better scale to meet services demand at a reduced cost and with simplified management. Many organizations start with a private cloud, to best leverage existing resource investments, optimize initial cost savings, lock down processes and reduce security and compliance risks. They also have long-term cloud strategy plans to leverage public clouds in a hybrid cloud (private and public) to be able to access additional resources for overflow capacity on demand, paying only for the public cloud resources as needed and consumed.

An Intelligent Approach to Cloud Computing:

To keep up with the pace of IT service requests in a cloud computing model, IT must shift to dynamic resource management based on automated intelligence that can automatically and optimally provision cloud resources to deliver services quickly, reduce the risk of service failure, and adjust resources in response to changing conditions to meet service level guarantees and optimize resource capacity. This intelligence management system must also be able to automatically charge back for use of the resources.

Moab^® Adaptive Computing Suite provides the policy-based intelligence for cloud infrastructures to be successful and ensure that each cloud is:

• Agile—with fast delivery of the IT services in minutes via user self-service, catalog-based service definitions, optimal resource provisioning to avoid failures, and chargeback based on usage
• Automated—across all resource decisions, provisioning and management processes to optimize resource utilization and capacity to reduce costs, meet service level guarantees, and reduce IT staff burden so IT staff can scale with cloud services
• Adaptive—so cloud resources self-optimize and respond to changing conditions, without manual intervention, to optimize service delivery to the business

Moab Adaptive Computing Suite is an intelligent cloud management system that automates the decisions and process of provisioning diverse resources against diverse incoming workloads and changing conditions based on business policies and service level goals with usage billing and a self-service user request interface.

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