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Abiquo is a Cloud management solution for virtual capacity planning, optimization & provisioning

It separates the task of managing physical infrastructure (servers, networking and storage) from the creation and management of applications. Abiquo lets these tasks be delegated to one or more authorized users who manage their own Virtual Enterprises within set resource limits, and without affecting anyone else’s applications. Abiquo automatically manages the complex interaction between physical and virtual environments according to a defined policy.

Key Features of Abiqou:

• A shared pool of physical computing resources controlled and managed by the IT organization.
• Delegated management of virtualized enterprises within appropriate resource limits.
• Automatic workload distribution according to policy.
• Self-service provisioning (and decommissioning) by the consumers of computing resources in their own timescale.
• Open standards and interoperability, including features such as automatic conversion between hypervisor types.

Hypervisor Independence

Abiquo was designed to avoid dependence on any hypervisor. Not only are all major hypervisors fully and simultaneously supported, Abiquo allows conversion of virtual machines from one hypervisor to another in any combination, completely eliminating vendor lock-in with a single drag and drop operation.

Abiquo empowers authorized users and groups, by allowing them to manage their own virtual enterprises within allocated resource limits. New virtual machines or pre-built appliances can be deployed in seconds.

Benefits

The Abiquo vision substantially reduces the load on the IT infrastructure organization, by delegating responsibility for virtual enterprise management. Given that virtual enterprise users don’t have direct access to physical machines, and that virtual enterprises cannot exceed allocation resources (because workload management doesn’t allow it), there is no danger in this delegation. The IT infrastructure organization can rest easy, focus on meeting service levels, and to take a more strategic, rather than tactical, approach. Virtual enterprise administrators are empowered to create their own virtual datacenters and to assign appropriate roles and responsibilities to other users to run them.