Automatically enforce your cloud polices
Exploring use of appropriate cloud services for your organization is almost a mandatory IT project these days. The reduction in TCO, the increased flexibility of resources, simplified time-to-market, and the switch from capex to opex are compelling business drivers. But, moving to the cloud is not just about costs savings or efficiency. What about compliance? What about legal and corporate controls? All business and government operations need to be governed in some fashion, some much more strictly than others. What's needed is a comprehensive way to define and automatically enforce your cloud policies.
Moving to the cloud need not be synonymous with losing control. By seeking solutions to implement automated cloud policy enforcement you can increase the transparency and control of the cloud services whilst at the same time leveraging the maximum elasticity to optimize your application performance.
The senseTM solutions offer comprehensive solutions to define, implement and automatically enforce business and compliance policies around your cloud services. Whether policies are for; service delivery optimization, cost control, operational assurance, legal compliance or governance, you can implement customized control apps to align your cloud usage to match you key business policies.
Policies are defined as a collection of one or more business SLAs that include one or more KPI thresholds to indicate aspects of service delivery relevant to the service. sense SLAs are monitored constantly in runtime, and as SLA health is threatened, for instance by increased load or partial outage, sense executes adjustment actions to recover the service and bring it back within its SLA bounds. In this fashion sense is continually and automatically optimizing cloud resources to maintain the service according to the defined policy.
