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COMPREHENSIVE HYBRID CLOUD MANAGEMENT

INDUSTRYS ONLY ENTERPRISE CLOUD

MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

THE CHALLENGE

Traditional IT operating models do not offerthe business agility or innovation neededtoday. Heavily dependent on capitalinvestments and manual provisioningof applications and other IT services,traditional IT operating models restrict

innovation and often increase costs throughover-procurement and manual processes.Further, traditional IT operating models donot focus on connecting development andoperations processes and workflows, oftenleaving a gap that causes issues withdevelopment handoffs to operations thatlead to lengthy release cycles, productiondefects and unplanned outages.

Today, enterprises are adopting cloud-based IT operating models to increasetheir business agility and reduce costs. Asmany non-IT business divisions consumepublic cloud services directly, bypassingcentral IT governance, IT organizationsare forced to adopt hybrid cloud-basedoperating models to remain relevant andcompetitive with external offerings or riskbecoming marginalized.

Many companies are adopting cloudtechnologies as a solution, but are failingbecause of common missteps and pitfalls.They provide simple Infrastructure as aService (IaaS) instead of what the businesswants access to IT platforms, andapplications on demand or theyconsolidate around a single private cloud

offering and miss the agility and costsavings of a hybrid cloud-based operatingmodel. But, how do you adopt hybrid cloudoperating models while maintainingsecurity, compliance and governance?

THE SOLUTION

The CSC ServiceMesh Agility Platformaccelerates the transformation toEverything as a Service by governing,orchestrating and delivering portfolios ofIaaS, PaaS and SaaS across hybrid cloudenvironments to reduce the cost,

complexity and time to market forIT services. This enables central IT totransform its role into that of a hybridcloud service broker, and allowsdevelopment and IT operations teamsto increase the speed and frequency ofsoftware releases without sacrificing thequality of software in production.

The Agility Platform capabilities areorganized around an end-to-end cloudapplication lifecycle, and these capab ilitiesintegrate with your existing enterprise ITecosystem and software developmentlifecycle.

Plan for cloud by creating and managing

the policies, entitlements, organizationalhierarchies, access controls and cloudusage parameters for your organization.

Design cloud-based applications andplatforms using a graphical workbenchto assemble cloud portable applicationblueprints for deployment across diversehybrid clouds.

A SINGLE, INTEGRATEDPLATFORM FOR HYBRID CLOUDLIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT Application-centric cloud

management

Extensible policy-driven governance

Application release automation

End-to-end security model

Self-service store

Enterprise scalability

KEY BENEFITS Improve time to market with self-

service provisioning of enterprise-grade platforms and businessapplications.

Increase business agility by directlyempowering business users anddevelopers with on-demand accessto fully governed and SLA-managedIT resources.

Mitigate regulatory and compliancerisk with robust policy-basedgovernance, security and lifecyclemanagement consistently appliedacross all IT resources.

Lower costs and optimize resourceutilization using IT services that areportable and not locked into anyspecific cloud service provider orimplementation technology.

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Consume IT services through a fullygoverned, self-service portal foron-demand provisioning of broadas-a-service portfolios.

Release new cloud-based applicationsusing an intuitive visual dashboardto promote software builds and

deployment environments acrossthe development lifecycle.

Operate and monitor cloud-basedworkloads using a consolidated run-time management console withfine-grain reporting and resourceconsumption tracking.

The Agility Platform provides thefeatures necessary to effectively adopthybrid cloud operating models to deliverIT as a Service.

Application-Centric Cloud Management.

The Agility Platform features a graphicalworkbench to design complex multi-tierapplications that are cloud portable, anda broad range of application-centricpolicy types to govern the deployment,orchestration and security posture ofcomplex, multi-tier application topologies.

Extensible Policy-Driven Governance.

A broad range of application-centric policytypes control the deployment and enforcethe standardization of applications andplatforms. Agility Platforms policiesorchestrate the automated deployment of

complex, multi-tier application topologiesincluding application components such asdatabases, app servers, Web servers, loadbalancers, firewalls, VPN appliances,registration with third-party systems, andmore. The Agility Platform enforces cloudgovernance within a customizable, multilayered,organizational hierarchy model. AgilityPlatform also natively recognizes SDLCstages and events to allow organizationsto customize governance controls asapplications and their deploymentenvironment are promoted across thestages of the SDLC. The Agility Platformspolicy-driven governance enables aself-service consumption model andsimplifies and automates managementof cloud-based IT services.

Application Release Automation.

The Agility Platform provides a visualdashboard for the management andpromotion of applications, deploymentenvironments and code artifacts acrossthe SDLC. Further, Agility Platform integrateswith an organizations existing software

development tool chain to enable SDLCworkflow automation as well as deploymentinto preferred cloud environments..

End-to-End Security Model.

The Agility Platform uses an end-to-end cloud security model that allowsorganizations to define high-level securitypolicies and implement them in a consistentand automated manner across all workloadsand deployment environments undermanagement. Agility Platform alsointegrates with an organizations existingsecurity ecosystem, including singlesign-on and role-based access control(RBAC) models, enabling enterprises toextend existing security controls throughcloud applications managed by the AgilityPlatform. This simplifies the integrationwith existing enterprise security and thecreation and enforcement of customsecurity postures.

Self-Service Store.

The Agility Platform provides a fullygoverned, self-service portal to alloweasy access to standa rdized andcustomizable applications, platformsand other as-a-service offerings foron-demand deployment, reducing ITprovisioning time and manual overhead.

Enterprise Scalability.

The Agility Platform meets the scalabilityneeds of any large enterprise. With compoundauto-scaling policies that dynamically addnew instances to a worker pool and resizethe workload instances automatically, theAgility Platform enables scaling of underlyingapplication tiers (apps servers, Web servers,etc.) independently to balance cost andperformance. Further, Agility Platformdynamically scales itself to manage large-

scale environments and contains a distributeddata collection architecture that scales tolarge multi-cloud deployments andconserves network bandwidth.

CUSTOMER RESULTSSome of the worlds largest and mostsophisticated companies in financialservices, healthcare and other highlyregulated industries rely on the AgilityPlatform to rapidly deliver applications andservices leveraging a diverse range of

private and public clouds. Customerbenefits include:

Increase in new application updates/ deployments, from 1,200 to 3,000per month

95% reduction in time to market forprovisioning custom enterprise platforms

97% reduction in time to marketfor provisioning standardizedinfrastructure services

42% total cost of ownershipsavings for business apps

84% operating cost savings forIT infrastructure services

48% increase in IT innovationinvestment with an overall ITbudget remaining constant

CSC CLOUD SERVICES AT A GLANCE ACE Factory Transform and cloud-

enable your legacy and customapplications with a fast, reliable andpredictable process

CloudCompute Infrastructure as aService built for production workloads

BizCloud Private cloud whereperformance and security are paramount(onsite or CSC hosted)

Cloud IU for SAP Fully managed cloud-enabled infrastructure tailored for SAPproduction, development and testing

Cloud Migration Services Acceleratemigration of cloud-ready, x86 workloadsto your enterprise cloud

FIND OUT MORE

To find out more aboutCSC ServiceMesh Agility Platform,visit www.csc.com/cloud.