No enterprise is a greenfield: Cloud360 manages and brokers across what you already have

Traditional IT environments have separate operational layers for running different applications, operating systems, networks and platforms. Provisioning an environment in such a scenario requires customers to reach out to separate teams working in silos and having different policies, processes and compliance needs. Again deploying these environments manually has its own risks and set-backs, especially the possibility of business-impeding errors. The one-view of application availability that Cloud360 ensures, not only minimizes the risk of delayed service delivery or erroneous deployment of environments, but also simplifies the cloud computing experience with its completely virtualized and automated services. 

The 451 Take on Cloud360: ... will be successful because it provides the kind of service-oriented delivery that its existing customers expect. Cloud360 customers – most of which will already have accounts with Cognizant – typically regard AWS and other clouds as technology platforms, rather than service organizations...

The key automation function in Cloud360's ‘Hyperplatform’ is provided by the ‘Xi’ automation layer (language and APIs), which abstracts terminology, methods and access controls from AWS, VMware and other cloud environments to monitor and manage those environments from a single console. The interesting bit is that a command that could signify different things to different clouds has the same effect across all supported clouds when issued in ‘Xi’.

Cognizant's Cloud360 offers a wide range of services, from management to brokering, provisioning and orchestration to monitoring and auto-remediation.  It follows a strict, policy based cloud deployment architecture and supports customers with its advisory services. The best thing about the platform is that it maximizes its functional efficiency based on that of the IT enterprises. The IT companies have their own platforms and tools to conduct day to day business. Cloud360 plays a pivotal role in transforming the existing IT environments by integrating them with other eco-system components and facilitating management across multi-cloud platforms to yield optimum business benefits. 

... There are some 150 staff members in the Cloud360 unit, which is funded, Cognizant says, like a startup. With around 52 of Fortune 2000 enterprise customers across the globe (a dozen or so using the Managed OS operations and applications capability), the Cloud360 hyperplatform manages thousands of virtual environments and performs millions of cloud operations every day. Cloud360’s revenue grew 250% each year, And by the end of this year the mix may be more diverse as it picks up business in Singapore and other regions as well. ...