Designer

Designer is a highly versatile graphical workbench to assemble portable stacks, templates, and multi-tier application blueprints for deployment across hybrid clouds.

Organizations need the flexibility to deploy their cloud workloads to whatever cloud environment delivers the best combination of price, performance, compliance, security, and service levels that they need. Designer enables the rapid assembly of everything from simple stacks to highly complex multi-tier application blueprints and topologies, and enables these workloads to have the cloud portability that enterprises need for vendor contestability, combined with the business agility provided by on-demand provisioning.

         
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Optimize Applications and Platforms for Use in the Cloud

Designer provides a graphical environment to accelerate the design and assembly process of complex cloud workloads. Using Designer, workloads such as development platforms, custom business applications, and packaged applications are assembled into blueprints and outfitted with application configuration controls, auto-scaling rules, storage tiers, security settings, governance controls, and embedded with operating environment agents and utilities. To accelerate design and assembly, Designer includes a version-controlled library for reusable base images and deployment accelerators including customizable templates, scripts, blueprints, policies, packages, and more.

Create an Enterprise “Everything as a Service” Portfolio

Designer allows developers and architects to construct a versatile “everything as a service” portfolio that is policy-compliant and portable across heterogeneous cloud types. Once these cloud workloads are assembled, they can be seamlessly promoted to the next lifecycle stage for publishing and end user consumption – Agility Store.