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  • CloudBolt Commits to Applying AI to FinOps

    CloudBolt Commits to Applying AI to FinOps

    CloudBolt Software today revealed it plans to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into the financial operations (FinOps) capabilities it provides via its IT management platform over the coming year.

    Kyle Campos, chief product and technology officer for CloudBolt, said given the inherent complexity of modern IT environments, there is a need to apply machine learning algorithms and other forms of AI to enable IT organizations to apply policies in real-time to reduce costs. That capability is especially critical in cloud computing environments where services are often invoked by developers with little to no oversight, he noted.

    FinOps is a discipline that promotes a shared responsibility for an organization’s cloud computing infrastructure and costs. Rather than having disparate procurement teams working in silos to identify and approve costs, business, financial and IT leaders establish policies and best practices for usage that are programmatically enforced. The FinOps Foundation, an arm of the Linux Foundation, has been defining a set of FinOps best practices, but many organizations still lack the discipline required to implement them. One of the major reasons organizations lack this discipline is that many of them have been allowing application developers to provision cloud resources themselves. It’s not until the bill comes due at the end of the month that finance teams realize there is an issue when there is a sudden spike in costs.

    Rather than deploying a separate platform to manage FinOps, CloudBolt is making a case for integrating a framework for managing FinOps within the same platform IT teams use to manage those IT environments. That approach makes it possible to apply FinOps policies in a way that ensures best practices for controlling costs are implemented without creating yet another silo within an IT organization, said Campos.

    Running application workloads in the cloud is fundamentally different than running them in an on-premises IT environment where costs are largely fixed. Not many developers have much of an appreciation for the additional storage and cybersecurity expenses that are generated every time a new workload is added. As a result, many organizations lack visibility into the total cost of cloud computing until the monthly bill arrives. By then, it’s too late for IT teams to have any impact on the outcome.

    In the face of ongoing economic uncertainty, more organizations are clearly moving to reduce cloud computing costs more aggressively. In an ideal world, IT teams would be able to instantly see what impact any change to an IT environment will have on costs as part of any scenario planning exercise, said Campos.

    While most organizations would like to reduce their cloud costs, it’s just as important to ensure that the bills being incurred are predictable. Finance teams don’t appreciate surprises, no matter how important an application may be. IT leaders are now being held more accountable than ever to make sure cloud computing costs meet expectations from one month to the next. The challenge now is finding a way to inject controls in IT environments long after applications have already been deployed.

  • CloudBolt Adds Modular Automation Framework to Tame Hybrid Clouds

    CloudBolt Adds Modular Automation Framework to Tame Hybrid Clouds

    CloudBolt Software this week added a framework consisting of eight modules that collectively make it simpler to automate, optimize and govern hybrid cloud computing environments.

    Jeff Kukowski, CloudBolt CEO, said the goal is to provide IT teams with a more modular approach to managing multiple clouds that they can employ as they gain additional expertise.

    The modules provided by CloudBolt address everything from providing a repository, dubbed Automation Exchange, through which reusable automation content can be shared to implementing governance policies and tracking cloud spending.

    Other modules address testing and assurance, integration, automated discovery and machine learning algorithms that can be used to automate processes.

    While most organizations employ multiple clouds alongside on-premises IT environments, the management of IT across an extended enterprise is far from unified. A recent survey published by CloudBolt found a full 88% of respondents needed a “manager of managers” that would enable them to unify the various silos that have multiplied across their IT environment. CloudBolt Software is making a case for an IT framework that provides a layer of abstraction through which the management of multiple clouds and on-premises IT environments can be unified.

    It’s not clear whether organizations are deliberately employing multiple clouds or if, because of simple inertia, they have found themselves managing multiple cloud platforms because of decisions made by various application development teams. Some IT organizations employ multiple clouds because they are concerned about either becoming locked in to a specific cloud computing service; others are concerned an outage on one platform might take all their applications offline. Others simply take advantage of services that are better provided by one cloud service provider than another. It’s also not uncommon for one organization to acquire another that relied on a completely different platform to deploy applications.

    Regardless of how IT organizations found themselves managing multiple clouds, the total cost of IT rises as each new platform is added to an IT environment. Just as challenging is the fact that each new platform exposes some type of automation framework. Before too long, IT teams find themselves having to navigate multiple islands of automation implemented across a highly distributed computing environment. In many cases, those automation instances are reinventing the same process that has already been automated on another platform using a completely different toolset.

    It is more a question of time and the degree to which IT organizations will eventually consolidate management of disparate IT environments under some type of unified control plane that enables true hybrid cloud computing. Once that capability is achieved, IT teams should find it simpler to migrate workloads from one platform to another.

    In the meantime, most organizations will be managing multiple IT environments for the foreseeable future. The only thing that is unclear is the volume of workloads that might be running on one of those platforms at any given time. The challenge—and the opportunity—is to regain control over computing environments increasingly more distributed.

  • Multi-Cloud Computing is a Major IT Headache

    Multi-Cloud Computing is a Major IT Headache

    A CloudBolt Software survey of 500 senior IT, DevOps, security and finance leaders found 79% are struggling under the weight of managing multiple cloud computing environments.

    The survey from CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, found specifically that more than three-quarters of respondents (78%) said they have too many cloud tools throughout their enterprise, and 80% struggled to achieve comprehensive visibility into cloud usage and spending. A total of 80% also noted that their current approach to cloud computing created new security vulnerabilities.

    A full 88% said they need a “manager of managers” that would enable them to unify the various silos that have multiplied across their IT environment.

    Nevertheless, 78% of respondents said that moving to the cloud enabled them to achieve cost savings compared to running applications in an on-premises IT environment.

    CloudBolt Software CEO Jeff Kukowski said the issue is not so much that IT organizations regret shifting workloads to the cloud; instead, the issue is finding a way to manage multiple clouds, each with their own set of tools and frameworks that need to be mastered.

    It’s not clear whether organizations are deliberately employing multiple clouds or if, because of simple inertia, they have found themselves managing multiple cloud platforms because of decisions made by various development teams. Some IT organizations, for example, employ multiple clouds because they are concerned about either becoming locked into a specific cloud computing service or whether an outage might take all their applications offline at the same time. Others are simply trying to take advantage of services that are better provided by one vendor than another.

    Regardless of how IT organizations found themselves managing multiple clouds, the total cost of IT rises as each new platform is added to an IT environment. CloudBolt Software is making a case for an IT framework that provides a layer of abstraction through which the management of multiple clouds and on-premises IT environments can be unified. It is more a question of time and degree to which IT organizations will eventually consolidate the management of disparate IT environments under a single control plane that provides the foundation for true hybrid cloud computing, said Kukowski.

    There are, of course, a few organizations that have standardized on a single cloud computing platform. The degree to which those organizations can maintain that standard will naturally vary as, for example, new workloads that may be optimized for a specific cloud environment are built or as companies acquire other organizations that are running workloads on other cloud platforms. In many of those cases, organizations discover that the cloud services invoked expose a range of proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs) and disparate virtual machines that make migrating workloads a major challenge.

    Like it or not, most organizations will be managing multiple IT environments for the foreseeable future. The only thing that is uncertain is the volume of workloads that might be running on any one of those platforms at any given time.

  • CloudBolt Survey Shows DevOps Frustration in the Enterprise

    CloudBolt Survey Shows DevOps Frustration in the Enterprise

    A survey of more than 200 senior IT leaders at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today finds only 4% consider their organizations to be experts when it comes to continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).

    Conducted by CloudBolt Software, a provider of a platform for many IT environments, the survey also found only 11% consider their CI/CD infrastructure to be reliable. Another 69% said their CI/CD infrastructure was somewhat reliable, while 21% said their platforms were somewhat unreliable or not reliable at all. A full 85% also report they regularly test the infrastructure they rely on to drive DevOps processes.

    Overall, the CloudBolt survey finds only 5% of respondents report their organization is deploying code multiple times a day. Most respondents (85%) said their organization only deploys code on a weekly or monthly basis.

    A full 70% said that, on average, it also takes multiple days or even weeks to set up a pipeline. Nearly two-thirds (63%) said there are too many manual processes involved when setting up pipeline infrastructure. More than half (56%) also noted they have no automated processes for post-deployment tasks.

    More than half (53%) said it is also challenging to proactively detect infrastructure issues, while 55% said it is difficult to create a consistent CI/CD pipeline environment across multiple development teams. Improving those pipeline environments requires speeding up the process of provisioning infrastructure through automated processes (70%); continuously detecting infrastructure issues to reduce testing challenges and failures (62%) and simplifying remediation of infrastructure issues proactively (56%), according to survey respondents.

    The CloudBolt Software survey specifically identifies issues organizations encounter when employing Terraform to manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Only 5% of respondents said they were “very satisfied” with using Terraform and another 75% reported they are somewhat satisfied. Top challenges include difficulty using it in on-premises infrastructure deployments (62%), lack of Day 2 management for deployed resources (53%) and governance (42%). Only 2% of respondents said they were employing Terraform to deploy 75% or more of their infrastructure. A full 90% noted that Terraform requires more custom-coded integrations with other critical tools and systems to work properly.

    Finally, 29% said their organization lacks specific Terraform expertise. The most sought-after Terraform capabilities are enabling non-Terraform experts to easily deploy infrastructure using Terraform; ensuring that only Terraform plans with IT “guardrails” are executed and the ability to visualize and cost-optimize infrastructure deployed by Terraform. More than a third (35%) want to simplify deployment of on-premises infrastructure when using Terraform.

    Jeff Kulkowski, CloudBolt CEO, said the survey makes it clear there simply isn’t enough expertise available to implement DevOps  best practices at scale without enabling IT administrators—that often lack programming expertise—to manage infrastructure and DevOps platforms. That requirement creates the need for an IT management platform based on a set of visual tools that enables DevOps professionals and traditional IT managers to work more collaboratively, he added. DevOps teams can manage IaC whenever they desire, but it’s also crucial to enable IT operations staff to manage IT infrastructure alongside those teams.

    Obviously, DevOps as an IT discipline still has a long way to go before it is pervasively adopted across enterprise IT organizations. The challenge now is to remove many of the low-level barriers that conspire to block IT modernization initiatives.

  • CloudBolt Adds Cloud Cost Tool to Hybrid Management Platform

    CloudBolt Adds Cloud Cost Tool to Hybrid Management Platform

    CloudBolt Software this week added cost management capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public clouds along with codeless integrations with additional platforms to its hybrid cloud management platform.

    Grant Ho, chief marketing officer for CloudBolt, said the Spring Release of the company’s platform, now generally available, enables IT operations teams to rely much less on custom code to integrate the various elements of a hybrid cloud computing environment. The Spring edition adds support for the VMware vRealize Automation 8 automation platform, the configuration management database provided by ServiceNow as a cloud service and the IP address management platform from SolarWinds.

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    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, CloudBolt is betting more organizations will look to centralize IT management as part of an effort to reduce the total cost of IT. The cost management capabilities added to the platform enable IT teams to position themselves as more of an independent arbiter of where certain classes of workloads should run, based on cost, at a time when organizations have never had as many options as they do today, noted Ho.

    A recent survey published by CloudBolt found 80% of respondents are prioritizing real-time insight into cost optimization and security remediation. A total of 71% want self-service to be easy for end users, while 62% want an approach to integration that doesn’t require deep domain knowledge or special expertise.

    A full 94% of respondents also noted hybrid cloud computing will be critical to digital transformation. A total of 92% also noted that empowering end users through self-service IT is a digital transformation accelerator, while 99% said successful automation depends on streamlining integrations.

    More than three quarters (78%) noted they lack the visibility necessary to optimize cloud deployments. More than half (56%) also admitted their self-service offerings fail to meet user needs and more than three-quarters (76%) still rely on some form of custom coding when it comes to integration.

    Most enterprise IT organizations are trying to strike a balance between cost and flexibility as IT environments become more distributed. Each time a new platform is added to an IT environment, the total cost of IT rises because additional consoles for managing those platforms need to be staffed. The challenge is finding a way to centralize the management of IT in a way that reduces the number of consoles that have to be mastered without requiring every business unit to standardize on a platform that locks an organization into a single provider.

    It’s unclear to what degree IT organizations will rely on traditional IT service management (ITSM) platforms manned by administrators versus DevOps platforms deployed by site reliability engineers (SREs) to achieve that goal. However, one way or another, the cost of distributed computing environments needs to be reduced, even as they are becoming more complex. The primary issue now is deciding how best to achieve that goal in an IT environment where every application owner tends to view themselves as master of their own IT domain.

  • CloudBolt Unleashes New Rainmaker Channel Partner Program

    Revenue-boosting program taps into joint marketing initiatives, market development funds, sales performance incentive funds and other incentives for partners to grow their pipeline and create new revenue streams

     

    NORTH BETHESDA, MD, March 23, 2021 — CloudBolt Software, the enterprise cloud management leader, is rolling out its new Rainmaker channel partner program (“Rainmaker”). Rainmaker enables channel partners to increase relevance to their business and customers.  It provides access to best-of-breed hybrid, multi-cloud solutions that support and deliver value across all types of cloud service engagement and to leads for customers needing help as they navigate the white waters of cloud.  CloudBolt’s focus is to ensure it’s partners can deliver maximum value while benefiting from maximum profitability and growth. Backed by Insight Partners, a $30B private equity firm, and with nearly 200 global customers and growing, CloudBolt can ensure that joint customer relationships are strategic, long-term and focused on loyalty.

    The Rainmaker rollout correlates with and facilitates the accelerating shift to an “all things as-a-service” market landscape, where enterprises need a wider variety of technologies and services to meet customers wherever they are on their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud journey. Pushing software and hardware is no longer the value play, but instead delivering white-glove levels of service is the focus.

    “We couldn’t be more excited about Rainmaker,” said Larry Kraft, Senior Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances of CloudBolt Software. “Our partners are at the core of every decision we make as a business…from lab creation to marketing to the potential for partners to maximize their revenue growth. Our recent acquisitions provide us a breadth and depth of capabilities to solve the top challenges in the hybrid cloud market, and our partners can take advantage of this to enhance their offerings and drive sustainable growth.”

    “CloudBolt’s Rainmaker partner program provides the combination of robust margins, growth incentives and industry-leading cloud management solutions, enabling us to help our clients accurately forecast and secure their cloud environments. Pareto’s partnership with CloudBolt has us and our clients excited, as we’ve been able to quickly rationalize, optimize, automate and accelerate cloud strategies”, said Ryan Keese, Chief Revenue Officer at Pareto Cyber.  “In less than a few weeks, we have partnered on a number of strategic deals for clients with an immediate need for comprehensive cloud management, compliance and cost savings.  We look forward to many more.”

    With the launch of Rainmaker, CloudBolt is delivering benefits and incentives to help its partners grow and transform their cloud business, including:

    • 100% of leads being taken to partners

    • Solutions that deliver an unrivaled time-to-value for our customers

    • Maintaining relevance as advisors; CloudBolt helps partners not be single-threaded in accounts, but pivot to critical areas: DevOps, Security, ITOps, FinOps, Infrastructure, Virtualization and Procurement

    • Our Rainmaker framework and approach is flexible — ensuring CloudBolt remains easy to do business with

    With Rainmaker, partners will be positioned for greater success in helping our joint customers be successful on their digital transformation and modernization paths. Rainmaker provides the following benefits:

    • Training and Enablement –  Rainmaker partners are provided with comprehensive on-boarding and training.

    • Financial Benefits – A variety of discounts, renewals, referral fees and sell-through margins.

    • Marketing Support – Partners are equipped with co-branded collateral, campaigns in-a-box, social posts, customizable assets, sponsorships, and have access to market development funds (MDF).

    • Systems – An easy-to-use Partner Portal/LMS facilitates deal registration and provides NFR/Trial Keys for partner labs and access to CloudBolt University for education and certifications.

    • Motivation – CloudBolt provides SPIFFs and monetary incentives to Rainmaker partners to reward activity that helps grow the pipeline and close deals.

    About CloudBolt Software

    CloudBolt Software is the enterprise cloud management leader. With our comprehensive solutions for cloud integrations, self-service IT, cost optimization, and security, we help enterprises simplify complexity and achieve rapid time-to-value anywhere on their hybrid cloud, mult-icloud journey. Our award-winning cloud management platform and codeless integration solutions are deployed and loved by enterprises worldwide. Backed by Insight Partners, CloudBolt Software has been named one of the fastest-growing private companies on the Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc. 5000 lists. In addition, CloudBolt is 2020 CODiE award winner for best cloud management and featured in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms. For more information, visit www.cloudbolt.io.

  • CloudBolt Software Releases OneFuse Community Edition, Free Version of Its Award-Winning Enterprise Codeless Integration Platform

    Free offering helps administrators and architects simplify and centralize configurations for vRealize Automation blueprints and Terraform plans; New OneFuse Community site brings together vRA, Terraform, and DevOps professionals to share best practices and tips & tricks related to IT automation initiatives

     

    NORTH BETHESDA, MD, February 24, 2021 — CloudBolt Software, the enterprise cloud management leader, today announced the launch of OneFuse Community Edition, a free version of its codeless integration platform for automating, integrating, and extending private and hybrid cloud infrastructures. OneFuse Community Edition helps thousands of architects and administrators work smarter by simplifying and centralizing configurations for vRealize Automation (vRA) blueprints and Terraform plans. In addition, the launch of the new OneFuse Community site brings together deep use cases and best practices related to advancing IT automation initiatives for vRA, Terraform, and other toolsets.

    Today, DevOps and automation architects typically need to create hundreds of unique configurations or develop custom code when provisioning resources like servers and applications, across different toolsets and underlying technologies. This increasing sprawl and tool-specific customization leads to high maintenance costs, lack of standardization, and compliance and security gaps. These problems only increase as organizations invest in more infrastructure and operations (I&O) management tools. According to Gartner, by 2025, organizations will have an average of five I&O management tools from markets that do not exist in 2020.

    “Time after time, we saw companies struggle to easily manage their provisioning processes, especially as they brought new toolsets into their organizations,” said David Coulter, Office of the CTO, at CloudBolt Software. “The need to build and maintain configuration records for every single resource—across scripts, vRA, Terraform, and other toolsets—often led to standardization and compliance gaps. With OneFuse Community Edition, enterprises now have an easy, free way to work smarter, not harder. They can centrally manage their configurations, while gaining an on-ramp for even greater centralization of IT services like networking and security with the OneFuse Enterprise Edition.”

    “OneFuse Community Edition is a great way for vRA and Terraform users to test-drive OneFuse capabilities,” said John Tejada, Cloud Management Practice Lead at World Wide Technology. “We’re excited to partner with CloudBolt in this offer and provide our customers with a way to simplify their integrations, which are often the most time-consuming and complex parts of accelerating infrastructure automation initiatives. With OneFuse, we are looking at integrations in weeks, not months.”

    Built on the power of the OneFuse Enterprise Edition, the OneFuse Community Edition comes with the following capabilities to unlock new use cases in vRA and Terraform while driving down complexity:

    • Ability to centrally define, store, and update configuration properties and tags to  standardize provisioning
    • Simple, tag-based implementation that allows administrators to dynamically drive configurations across multiple platforms, thereby reducing manual efforts
    • Ability to easily complement and extend native variable, property, and tagging capabilities in vRA 7.x, vRA 8.x, and Terraform for more powerful use cases
    • Ability to dynamically create or read OneFuse Property Sets within vRA Cloud Assembly templates to drive configurations for any type, not just machines
    • Ability to migrate vRA7 “Property Groups” to OneFuse Property Sets and consume those configurations across vRA7, vRA8 and Terraform

    “After introducing the OneFuse platform last year, we knew we wanted to build a community around the product especially as enterprises continued to invest in new automation tools, cloud management platforms, and infrastructure-as-code,” said Jeff Kukowski, CloudBolt’s chief executive officer. “Given that automation complexities are unique to every business, OneFuse Community Edition will provide customers, partners, and prospects with a simplified way to manage and reduce this complexity as they move through their hybrid cloud journey.”

    Infrastructure and automation professionals who want to achieve greater automation flexibility have the option to upgrade the OneFuse Enterprise Edition include integrations with common enterprise service providers, such as Infoblox, Microsoft Active Directory, Ansible Tower, and others. To download OneFuse Community Edition, visit onefuse.cloudbolt.io.

    About CloudBolt Software

    CloudBolt Software is the enterprise cloud management leader. With our comprehensive solutions for IT integrations, orchestration and self-service IT, cost optimization, and security, we help enterprises simplify complexity and achieve rapid time-to-value anywhere on their hybrid cloud, multicloud journey. Our award-winning cloud management platform and codeless integration solutions are deployed and loved by enterprises worldwide. Backed by Insight Partners, CloudBolt Software has been named one of the fastest-growing private companies on the Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc. 5000 lists. In addition, CloudBolt is 2020 CODiE award winner for best cloud management and featured in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms. For more information, visit www.cloudbolt.io.

  • CloudBolt Software Aims to Bridge DevOps and IT Divide

    CloudBolt Software Aims to Bridge DevOps and IT Divide

    CloudBolt Software today released a Winter update to its cloud management platform that aims to bridge the divide between DevOps teams and traditional IT administrators.

    IT administrators can now employ the CloudBolt platform to invoke the open source Ansible framework for automating IT processes and workflows using a graphical user interface (GUI) surfaced via a OneFuse Ansible Tower module.

    Additionally, the OneFuse Scripting module will now make it possible to automate script creation for anyone who creates a script using, for example, Terraform, and package that script in a way that IT administrators can invoke via a graphical tool.

    Jeff Kukowski, CEO of CloudBolt Software, said the goal is to make it easier for IT teams across the organization to reuse code created by a DevOps team. OneFuse provides IT with a codeless integration tool. In addition to the core cloud management platform, CloudBolt Software also provides access to a Kumolus service that enables IT teams to optimize cloud costs and provides additional governance capabilities such a generating an audit trail.

    Other capabilities added in the Winter release include deeper cost optimization analysis for VMware vCenter and Microsoft Azure environments, support for the latest release of VMware vRealize and additional C-level dashboards and reports.

    As the number of workloads deployed in production environments increases, there is going to be a greater need for some form of détente between DevOps teams and traditional IT administrators. Site reliability engineers (SREs) can typically manage a much wider range of workloads than an IT administrator. However, SREs are both expensive and hard to find and retain. IT organizations will need to find a way for IT administrators that, at best, have limited programming skills, to pick up some of the slack.

    Those IT administrators can play a critical role in minimizing the number of misconfigurations arising from provisioning IT infrastructure as code. Misconfigurations as a result of developer mistakes are rife across the cloud, and IT administrators are more inclined to check for these than are developers who are racing to deliver their next application.

    The truth is, there are a wide range of tasks that DevOps teams would just as soon see managed by IT administrators, especially if a script or runbook that addresses common issues has already been created. The trick is making that script or runbook easily accessible.

    In the meantime, IT organizations are racing to keep up with complexity in IT environments, often by applying automation at scale in a way that is both repeatable and well-documented. Whether IT professionals like it or not, the days of writing automation scripts and failing to document them are coming to an end. The real issue is ensuring that what does get automated actually works as expected, each and every time a script is applied.

  • CloudBolt Releases OneFuse 1.1, Takes Hybrid Cloud to the Next Level

    New features accelerate enterprise infrastructure automation and enable continuous enforcement of security and governance policies across hybrid cloud environments
     
    NORTH BETHESDA, MD, October 29, 2020 — CloudBolt Software, the enterprise leader in cloud management and integration solutions, today announced the general availability of OneFuse 1.1, a codeless integration platform for automating, extending and integrating hybrid cloud technologies. This release provides powerful new capabilities to help IT to simplify integration complexity across their cloud management, infrastructure-as-code, and automation platforms including VMware vRealize Automation and HashiCorp Terraform. By enabling IT to easily create deep, feature-rich integrations—without the high cost and complexity of custom code—enterprises can accelerate their infrastructure automation initiatives while improving governance and compliance.
     
    “As enterprises invest in digital transformation, accelerating their automation initiatives for hybrid cloud is hampered by the sheer complexity of integrations across IT and DevOps tools,” said Jeff Kukowski, chief executive officer of CloudBolt Software. “Integrations should be accelerators, not stumbling blocks. Enterprises continue to find themselves tripping over custom code when integrating their scripts and platforms like VMware vRealize Automation and Terraform with underlying IT, networking and security infrastructure. OneFuse 1.1 dramatically accelerates time-to-value by reducing this custom code and improving integration governance, all through a codeless, policy-based approach.”
     
    The OneFuse Advantage
     
    Traditional infrastructure automation tools rely on custom coding and unsupported integration methods that can often be error-prone and ungoverned. According to the Standish Group, custom coding software projects is both expensive (52% of custom coded projects cost 189% of their original estimate) and time-consuming (organizations cancel 19% of their custom software projects). 
     
    OneFuse 1.1 is a software-defined alternative to siloed custom integration services. As an enterprise integration platform purpose-built for hybrid cloud, OneFuse 1.1 has three distinct advantages over alternative integration methods. The platform enables:
     
    • Codeless integrations – OneFuse 1.1 has a middleware abstraction layer with production-ready integration logic that allows IT to codelessly integrate their provisioning, orchestration or automation tools with target infrastructure endpoints (e.g., IPAM, DNS, etc.). OneFuse also extends integration capabilities for existing platforms VMware vRealize Automation and Terraform, so customers are able to get more value from those investments. By eliminating the need for custom integrations, OneFuse provides an alternative to expensive professional services with value being realized in days instead of months or years.
     
    • Centralized governance and compliance – From OneFuse’s centralized console, enterprises can easily define, apply and enforce infrastructure deployment and usage policies without special tooling or skill sets. This enables IT to enforce monitoring, compliance, security, auditing and logging requirements for multiple vendor services and components. OneFuse allows them to see who, what, when and how resources and services are being consumed and deployed, and always have a full audit trail of all requests, job outcomes, users and policies.
     
    • Unified automation – Many enterprise IT organizations are siloed and fragmented, which impacts the ability to achieve well-governed advanced automation. OneFuse removes those barriers by allowing different personas (e.g., infrastructure engineers, automation architects, site reliability engineers, etc.) to collaborate on integration and automation policies without the need to provide privileged access to IT systems. IT can unify provisioning and orchestration of cloud resources—quickly, cost-effectively and securely—while providing “anywhere, anytime” access to those services for whomever needs them.
     
    “Today, many of our customers are investing in digital transformation and hybrid cloud in order to maintain a competitive edge. As more IT and DevOps tools proliferate in the enterprise, we’ve seen a growing interest in the adoption of technologies such as OneFuse because they offer fast time-to-value for integrations, centralize policies for improved governance, and free up resources to focus on more transformative business objectives,” said John Tejada, Global Technical Solutions Architect, World Wide Technology. 
     
    OneFuse 1.1 is now generally available with naming services, IP address management (IPAM), domain name system (DNS), and Microsoft Active Directory support for platforms including vRealize Automation and HashiCorp Terraform. You can learn more about OneFuse or request a OneFuse free trial.
     
    About CloudBolt Software
     
    CloudBolt Software is the enterprise leader in cloud management and integration solutions. As enterprises embark on digital transformation and hybrid cloud, we’re here to help. Our products are simple, so you achieve unrivaled time-to-value; our knowledge is deep, so you have a trusted cloud partner along your journey; our teams are obsessed with your success, so you become the enterprise IT hero. Today, CloudBolt’s award-winning cloud management platform and codeless integration solutions are deployed in enterprises worldwide for hybrid cloud. Backed by Insight Partners, CloudBolt Software is a Deloitte Fast 500 company, a CODiE award winner for cloud management, and a featured company in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms. For more information, visit www.cloudbolt.io.