Cloud IT Transformation

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A policy-based framework addresses enterprises’ governance and security needs. With ServiceMesh’s DevOps Accelerator, software cycle times should get shorter and faster.

Rachel Chalmers, Vice President, 451 Research

ServiceMesh has a bold vision of enterprise agility via holistic services orchestration capabilities that manage both on-premises and cloud-based services, with automation of service lifecycles through policy-based definitions and enforcement.

Dana Gardner, President and Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions

IT organizations should ensure that their cloud management platforms provide extensible, policy-driven governance controls to manage the diversity of cloud services and environments, and get the ultimate value out of internal and external cloud services.

Donna Scott, VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner

ServiceMesh is successfully using the disruptive technologies of agile IT and cloud computing to deliver today the security, resiliency, policy enforcement, and auditing capabilities demanded by enterprise customers.

Roy Illsley is Principal Analyst at Ovum.

Had a demo with Servicemesh. Pretty comprehensive platform for the enterprises.

Krishnan Subramanian is an industry analyst and prolific cloud blogger that was recently named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Voices in Cloud Computing.

…the company has a broad vision and is actually doing something about it.

Dan Kusnetzky is a distinguished analyst and the founder of the Kusnetzky Group.

ServiceMesh’s cloud management platform enables IT organizations to manage the plan, build and run cycle of cloud resources leveraging a sophisticated, policy-based framework.

Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner

Great discussion with ServiceMesh, a cloud management platform – very forward looking and intuitive software for managing int and ext clouds.

Kyle Hilgendorf, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner

The first step was to virtualize and standardize those services, and the next step was to mobilize them, so we had competition in infrastructure provisioning. You can send new or existing work in either minutes, hours, days or weeks to competitors. That’s significantly improved the standard reduced the cost of infrastructure services.”

CIO, Asia-Pacific Bank

ServiceMesh acts as the gatekeeper and manager of everything we want to do. I can now start thinking about my developers, my projects managers having direct access to my infrastructure, and I no longer have to be the middleman.

Senior Business Leader, North American Financial Services Firm

We’ve already adopted an “as-a-service” approach to infrastructure for some 25 functions, including storage, hosting and application development platforms.

General Manager, Top 15 Global Bank

With ServiceMesh, we were able to do infrastructure-as-a-service almost up to the platform level, meaning with some middleware integration, and had the environment up and running and provisioning in 7 days.

Vice President, Global Debit and Credit Card Processor

The Agility Platform provides a single pane of glass of abstraction that allows you line of sight from the application, to the service, to the infrastructure; theoretically the entire stack. Once you have that, the whole commoditization of software as a services, true pay by the drink, true cost transparency, that’s where it’s headed.

SVP of IT, Global Consumer Products Company

My vision for this organization is to enable us to compete for any business we want against any competitor, and give them all the tools necessary for them to win that business. And that’s what we’re doing.

Vice President, Global Debit and Credit Card Processor

Half our spending went to the cost of doing business and conferred no strategic advantage. Today, the ratio of IT expenditure on business service versus infrastructure is 74 to 26 percent. We know that it’s world leading.

CIO, Asia-Pacific Bank

Whatever you can dream up, I can orchestrate in the policy engine.

Director of Converged Platform Services, Global Financial Services Firm

We are making a shift away from spending half of our budget on maintaining lights-on infrastructure, and instead get more of that money into creating really high value, highly responsive services.

CIO, Asia-Pacific Bank

Im getting the ServiceMesh Demo now. Wow!

James Staten, VP and Principal Analyst at Foresster Research

IT organizations should ensure that their cloud management platforms provide increasingly robust policy-driven governance and automated configuration management.

Cameron Haight, Research Vice President

Cloud IT Transformation

Cloud IT Transformation Enables IT as a Service (ITaaS)

Cloud IT Transformation is the process by which IT evolves existing inefficient and manual operating models to the automated, self-service model that cloud computing enables. An organization’s path along the journey may be ordered differently, but the steps taken are remarkably similar. Take a look at the diagram below which charts a typical path:

The Journey to Cloud IT Transformation (click image to enlarge)

Beyond Virtualization

Most enterprises are well into their virtualization initiatives by now and many have virtualized over 60% of their physical servers and reaped the cost savings associated with server consolidation. But, as large enterprises encounter new global market entrants and smaller, more nimble competitors, business units must get new applications and services to market much faster to compete effectively. Existing IT operating models, that rely on manual approvals and actions (even if they are “automated” with a workflow tool) can’t keep pace with this speed of change and virtualization alone doesn’t help. To rein in Shadow IT (where business units and developers use external cloud providers for IT resources with no governance controls) and enable the business to compete effectively, many enterprise IT organizations are beginning the Cloud IT Transformation journey to move to the on-demand, self-service model offered by external cloud providers.

Private Cloud Initiatives Often Stall, But Why?

Currently, private clouds initiatives are prevalent in enterprise IT organizations, as they seek to empower their business units to quickly address market opportunities. But without enterprise grade cloud management these initiatives often stall before they reach value. IT Governance and security must be preserved throughout the lifecycle of cloud applications and cloud services in order to safely allow business users to access and automatically deploy them on demand. Without enterprise grade cloud management, it is nearly impossible to extend initial private cloud deployments to hybrid cloud and to the goal of “everything as a service IT”.

Cloud IT Transformation

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Cloud IT Transformation

Cloud IT Transformation Enables IT as a Service (ITaaS)

Beyond Virtualization

Private Cloud Initiatives Often Stall, But Why?

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