IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator V2.3 is a comprehensive, open cloud management platform that automates the delivery of cloud services.
With IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator V2.3, you can:
- Automate cloud service deployment from a single cloud management platform that supports a heterogeneous set of hardware and virtualization environments. IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator now supports IBM Power Systems virtualization infrastructures, in addition to VMware and OpenStack with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) environments.
- Deliver cloud services in a fully secured multitenant environment, a key enabler for service providers who want to build a cloud delivery business model.
- Build a cloud management platform based on open standards, by leveraging the OpenStack platform, which provides scalable, elastic cloud computing for both public and private clouds, large, and small.
- Manage the whole lifecycle of cloud service delivery, including patch management, compliance management, and software installation.
- Accelerate the delivery of cloud services via a completely automated self-delivery model by leveraging a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, orchestration engine.
- Automate and standardize the deployment of multinode application topologies and blueprints.
- Monitor the health of the cloud environment with performance and capacity planning capabilities.
- Provide visibility of IT costs with features that are designed to measure, analyze, report, and invoice the utilization and cost of cloud computing resources.
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Business users want new applications now. Market and regulatory pressures require faster application updates and delivery into production. Your IBM i developers may be approaching retirement, and you see no sure way to fill their positions with experienced developers. In addition, you may be caught between maintaining your existing applications and the uncertainty of moving to something new.
IT managers hoping to find new IBM i talent are discovering that the pool of experienced RPG programmers and operators or administrators with intimate knowledge of the operating system and the applications that run on it is small. This begs the question: How will you manage the platform that supports such a big part of your business? This guide offers strategies and software suggestions to help you plan IT staffing and resources and smooth the transition after your AS/400 talent retires. Read on to learn:
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