Author Archives: Bhaskar Krishnamsetty

Understanding the Hidden Costs of Cloud Automation solutions – Part2

The Holy Grail Solution – Extensible and turnkey Solution Organizations require a turnkey solution to address the above hidden aspects and costs. Rather than dealing with the costly professional services and lengthy implementation cycles, organization require a true integrated ready … Continue reading

Understanding the Hidden Costs of Cloud Automation solutions – Part1

There are many cloud and data center automation solutions in the market. I would like to provide some insights into the hidden costs with most of these automation solutions. This blog will go over some of these hidden costs and … Continue reading

Pods2Clouds

Let me start off this blog with a simple question – “Is the lack of pre-integrated and out-of-box orchestration software to automate converged infrastructure slowing down the transition to private cloud?” I would say the answer is yes. If organizations … Continue reading

Why do you need physical infrastructure automation?

Building your own internal private cloud is actually lot harder than just creating and managing virtual machines. To fully realize the benefits of private cloud, you must have a full self-service catalog that includes both virtual and physical infrastructure. You … Continue reading

Cloud Automation using Cloupia Orchestration Engine

Cloupia’s cloud automation using cloupia orchestrator helps standardize IT services, reduces downtime and increase compliance.  IT administrators can customize and automate many infrastructure administrative and operational tasks using easy to use workflow UI designer. Cloupia provides built-in task library where … Continue reading

Who needs Cloud in a Box solution?

The top technology hardware vendors that are used to sell servers and storage boxes are kind of worried for a while with the cloud phenomenon and of course want to be part of cloud. So, they invented Cloud in a box … Continue reading

The Building Blocks of Private Clouds

Private clouds enable the power of sharing by maximizing the efficiency of computing, networking and storage resources. So, organizations can achieve rapid and efficient delivery of IT services, faster time to market, and reduced IT capital and operating expenditures with … Continue reading

Policies Are at the Heart of Good Self-service Automated Provisioning System

Self-service automated provisioning can help IT departments respond more efficiently and rapidly to business requests. Automation of manual provisioning process will cut down the deployment times from days and weeks to hours. It can save money by slashing provisioning time, … Continue reading

To Private Cloud Or Not To Private Cloud?

The best way to assess the value of the cloud is in terms of the economic drivers and long term benefits. Implementing a private cloud allows organizations to to have a dynamic environment that rapidly responds to change and utilizes all available resources. Continue reading

Our Data Center Is Already Virtualized, Why Do We Need Private Clouds?

Though a key component, just virtualization does not automatically give you a cloud. Private clouds provides operational efficiencies and business agility to the business units that virtualization alone cannot. Continue reading