Cognizant's Cloud360 is OnTarget to deliver ITMaaS market share... 451 Research

IT-management-as-a-service (ITMaaS) is a promising space in the cloud computing market that is estimated to make a significant growth in the coming years. Cognizant is already leveraging Cloud360 to integrate its application and infrastructure services to deliver ITMaaS. What makes Cloud360 a key differentiator for ITMaaS is its ability to integrate application and infrastructure services.

Cloud360 offers an application management module at levels 1 and 2 in the ITIL workflow making the application infrastructure completely traceable. It helps delivering integrated services between the application and integration services, by seamless workflow management between the application and the infrastructure layers, and providing application awareness for a holistic management of environments.

Cloud360 plays a vital role in the integration process whereby cloud can be integrated into the main management stack so that services can be monitored in a non-linear way. It proves useful for customers whether one wants to use public, or private, or on-premises platforms. It acts as the accelerator that can be used for one or multiple VMs. Cognizant offers Cloud360 as a product, providing licenses on a SaaS model.

Cloud360’s key automation capability is facilitated by Cognizant’s Xi Automation layer that abstracts VMs from AWS and VMWare managing the environments through a single console. Deployment and integration are supported by Cognizant’s managed services team or through the self-service portal. Apart from the provisioning, orchestration, monitoring, auto-remediation, metering and chargeback, analytics and advisory services which the customers can access through the self-service portal, what makes the product unique is the customer’s ability to plug in their existing tools with Cloud360’s service management layer. The Service Management layer, coupled with the Operations management layer results in a unique way of delivering ITMaaS.

Both Cognizant and its customers have reaped benefits on account of the real-time dashboard that eliminates dependence on periodic reports for measurement of SLA performance. Compared to some of its competitors, Cloud360’s customer portfolio is increasing steadily indicating its rising popularity with the customers.  Cloud360 is considered to be one of the key determinants of Cognizant’s success in the ITMaaS market.

Get insights into ITMaaS in this news report from 451 Research: “The company's Cloud360 offering appeals to the market because of its 'tenancy agnostic' architecture. Could this be a theme for 2014 ITMaaS market development?” by Katy Ring & William Fellows.

Winner of UP-CON Best Cloud Automation Solution, 2013

The Cloud360 success story continues…

I am happy to announce that Cognizant's Cloud360 has been awarded by UP-CON as the Best Cloud Automation Solution of 2013. Having been selected for this award from among some of the best next-generation cloud computing companies is a very prestigious recognition for us. The cloud automation feature of Cloud360 is creating quite a stir in the cloud world giving us impetus to enhance it even further.

The ability to automate application environments is one of the primary features of Cloud360 that is drawing more and more customers towards it. Its customizable automation policy makes it a unique offering giving customers full control of their environments. Its Instance and Application profiles allow for automated deployment enabling the customers to standardize and simplify the automation of application deployments. The automation policies cover a range of automated activities from how provisioning happens to where the provisioning happens to how a monitoring event needs to be handled to how cost control is enforced in an environment. This was never a luxury that the IT users enjoyed before.

The technology that is behind Cloud360’s automation capability is "Xi - Experience Intelligible", an easy-to-use English-like language that enables IT users to automate their everyday operations. It empowers Administrators and Business users to dynamically control the behavior of their Enterprise Applications. We recognized the fact that different enterprises have different management, monitoring and automation needs and one type of policy may not work for all. With Xi Configurator, users have the flexibility to create policies based on their requirement, thus giving them greater decision-making power and control over their environment. Users can also keep a check on the resource utilization and consumption by different group and implement timely actions to avoid misuse and contain costs.

Cloud360’s automation capability enables Business users as well as Administrators to collaborate and customize the hosting of applications for their end user. There was a time when the Business users had no control over the applications during run-time even though they were the owners of the business. With Cloud360, the enterprises are experiencing greater synergy between the Business users and the administrators. With the help of policies, the users can easily automate processes, thus saving the time spent on configuring and troubleshooting environments, reducing the element of manual error and investing the time and resources in more productive activities instead.

This technological innovation of Cloud360 has significantly simplified the usage of the Cloud technology and management of environments. Making automation easily accessible and customizable has provided users with greater decision-making power at their finger-tips, thus providing a powerful virtual canvas for automation. This unique technological breakthrough that has redefined the way Cloud environments are managed and monitored. It is an extremely rewarding experience as this technology is gets more recognition each day with increasing number of accolades and awards. This eggs us to further enhance the Cloud360 platform with newer innovations.