Simple Cloud Management

When an IT department decides to transform a company's infrastructure to a lower cost, more elastic utility they are changing more than hardware. The service model to end users has to adapt, too. IT needs a portal that simplifies access to end users. This changes both the type of IT that users are consuming and the way they consume it.

In other cases the business or mission demands an agile response to a compelling event like a pervasive change in process or the introduction of a completely new process. IT partners with the agency or business to develop a solution in a timeframe of weeks or even days, a compressed schedule that would never before have been possible without the ubiquity of computing power available from cloud-based architectures.

Cloud vendors need to understand these service model shifts are as important as the changes in architecture. Implementing self-serving and rapid response capabilities is such a critical requirement for the success of an enterprise cloud, CSC has made a determined effort to simplify important provisioning processes,  making order management, delivery and administration of its cloud solutions easier and more efficient.

This concept is supported by an "orchestration portal" which is essential to delivering a scalable, secure and easy-to-use cloud.  This type of service handles other management features like chargeback, service catalogues, availability monitoring, security event monitoring and processes for integrating cloud into the enterprise service management architecture. This type of intellectual property, developed by CSC, will continue to differentiate CSC as a cloud provider and help us to achieve our mission: provider of secure enterprise applications for cloud.

Automation software is fundamental to building our cloud services platform because it can automate the many procedures that span operations, and it integrates smoothly across heterogeneous environments.  Stay tuned for more announcements about this high value differentiator for the CSC Cloud.