PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS) USING CISCO CLOUDCENTER

Technology 

Cisco CloudCenter is a multicloud management solution that allows enterprise IT teams to  securely design, deploy, and optimize infrastructure and applications across multiple clouds  from a single point of access. It delivers a consistent user experience, while controlling costs  and helping you meet compliance requirements. Cisco CloudCenter abstracts the application  profile from the underlying infrastructure, translating the needs of the workload into cloud specific practices and API calls. As a result, developers can deploy and manage their  workloads in multiple environments without having deep cloud expertise or needing to learn  multiple cloud-specific management tools. Workloads can be a single virtual machine, a  traditional enterprise application, or a containerized cloud-native application on Kubernetes.  They can be deployed and managed for development, test, or production purposes, in any  mix of public cloud or private infrastructure.

Challenge 

Our customer needed to increase speed and agility across the data center and  optimize workloads for users. They needed a centrally governed portal which  allowed users to manage their workloads, develop business applications, and  import custom legacy applications. There needed to be policies and governance  to help manage resources and budgets. The solution had to bring together the  different teams of experts within the business to work on a common platform  and drive ownership, while reducing costs and automating business processes in  a reliable manner.

Solution 

Metsi proposed a multi cloud solution based on Cisco CloudCenter. This software  solution provided multicloud management of infrastructure and applications that  allowed the customer to design, deploy, and optimise deployments on premise  and in public clouds utilising the in built governance policies that provides  centralised visibility and control. It allowed the administrators to produce reports  and analyse the consumption patterns of deployed workloads which provided  visibility into the total cloud spend. It also identified cost-optimisation strategies  so as to avoid paying for resources that didn’t deliver value. The software  simplified business processes through workflow automation and seamless integration.

At design time Metsi architects along with lead engineers composed the  dependencies of their multi-tier applications into an application profile,  leveraging numerous out-of-the-box and custom integrations into the customers’  existing infrastructure ecosystem of enterprise tools. The consumers of the  solution could deploy the profile, devoid of multicloud complexities, using a pre established governance framework consisting of application and infrastructure  policies. Applications were delivered consistently and reliably across private and  public clouds in a manner that eased the transition to operations teams.

This proved that utilising this cloud automation engine, Metsi could automate  complex business processes, reduce total cloud costs, help capitalise on unique  benefits provided by each cloud provider which in turn freed up their resources  to focus on innovation.

Summary 

Metsi Technologies now offers Platform as a Service (PaaS), utilising your private  datacentre and public cloud environments by leveraging Cisco CloudCenter Suite.  Exposing those system and application API’s we can integrate and automate  processes, into agnostic repeatable blueprint applications that are designed to  deployed consistently and efficiently every time.