Adaptive Infrastructure, Seamless Integration & Orchestration

Key trends reshaping the Data Centers:

1. Data centers have been transforming from traditional legacy models to an on-demand virtualized, shared resource pools
2. High percentages of server virtualization supported by migration from legacy application platforms
3. Departure of Enterprise Apps from traditional Enterprise owned Data Center's to SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud service providers
4. Adoption of Private Clouds for hosting Legacy line of business applications

As a result of these changing trends, Enterprises are facing the following challenges. (Drivers of Change)

1. The rush to cloud computing without a cohesive strategy is resulting in cloud silos that reduce efficiency and effectiveness
2. Traditional models of supporting and managing these complex webs of Enterprise Computing workloads need to change
3. The need is for integration across providers and business services and an orchestration layer for the underlying infrastructure between disparate environments to seamlessly integrate across legacy infra, private and public cloud

Introducing: mPAC (Managed Platform for Adaptive Computing) from Tech Mahindra.

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A next level cloud management platform which simplifies IT, by transforming legacy DCs into adaptive infrastructure, Orchestrates complexity and delivers private & hybrid IaaS in response to dynamic workload requirements and enables integrated performance, availability and SLA management of Applications and Infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.

It features prepackaged hardware and software services which can be delivered in a zero capex model either in an on-premise implementation or on a cloud.

It is a bundled product with a number of solutions built around it, including but not limited to:

1. Adaptive Infrastructure As-A-Service — These services include Provisioning, De-provisioning, Dynamic Workload Management, Capacity Management, Performance Monitoring and Availability management for deployment models like On-Premise, On-Demand Cloud Hosted, Hybrid with Amazon EC2 VPC, with Microsoft Azure, with HP Helion
2. Adaptive Application As-A-Service — These services include Application Availability, Performance and SLA Management for services running on on-premise, private cloud, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms.
3. Application Migration-As-A-Service — On-Premise to Amazon Web Services, On-Premise to Microsoft Azure, SaaS Migration: (Salesforce.Com, Workday, Microsoft Office 365), ServiceNow, Unix to Linux Migrations

The Big Impacts

Managing Technology changes with:

1. Predictable Service Delivery — mPAC organizes different resources in discrete service offerings with an automated, standard operating environment using a self-service catalog experience for consumers of IT resources with appropriate controls. Thus it ensures predictive delivery with minimum dependence of IT across Infrastructure and applications.
2. Orchestrate Complexity — mPAC adapts to complex heterogeneity and provides orchestration through homogeneous platform. mPAC’s comprehensive automation engine automate the tasks across all elements in the data center and instill a disciplined approach to orchestrating IT processes.

Managing Business changes with:

1. Analytics And Visualization — mPAC makes sense out of massive amounts of disparate data — to solve complex Data center and Cloud problems using a fraction of time and resources. mPAC enables simplistic visualization of these problems to create an application specific environment — putting the applications and business services at the center of it all!
2. Unified Service Management — The Unified Service Management feature runs across multiple cloud platforms providing a single view of monitoring, business applications across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms. mPAC integrates monitoring, topology and event management information for comprehensive bottom-up, top-down performance management to pinpoint and resolve service outages, resulting in better quality of services.

Managing Economic changes with:

1. Hybrid IT — mPAC’s service portability and easy consumption models provide flexibility to design once and deploy everywhere — across traditional, private or public cloud environments. It provides cloud aggregation and brokering services for enterprises to conveniently access public, private, and hybrid cloud resource pools.
2. Dynamic Workload Management — mPAC has in-built intelligent load and capacity aware engine which automatically advice's workload packing, striping, placement or load balancing across hypervisors, physical resources and geographically located economical availability zones.

In Conclusion

Benefits include:

1. Reduced service deployment time from weeks to minutes using mPAC service delivery platform
2. Improved VM density by 30–40% without service disruption using mPAC Dynamic Workload Management
3. Easy to use: 3–5x easier than any competitor using mPAC business visualization
4. Reducing the administrator-to-server ratio by up to 60 percent using mPAC orchestration platform
5. Speeds time to value with out-of-the-box support for multiple IT operations using mPAC adapters
6. Availability of key application services can be improved from 60% to 90% using mPAC Analytics Engine
7. Increase IT productivity with visibility that helps IT find and fix issues 10x faster using mPAC platform

Features that set us ahead in the league:

1. Flexible approach which can utilize existing cloud investments
2. Varied deployment models providing customer freedom of choice
3. Unified Service & operations management for infrastructure & applications across on premise/hosted/IaaS/PaaS and SaaS platforms
4. A continuous delivery solution that provides deployment and release management of complex multi-tier applications across the application life cycle.
5. In-depth data integration and analytics platform to monitor customer experience with visibility from server, storage, network and applications
6. mPAC provides a single cloud platform enabling hybrid IT management