The latest version offers a brand new user interface and user experience delivering rich functionality, simply
London, UK – 25 February 2015 – Flexiant, today releases the new look of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator in its latest version to deliver a simplified experience for service providers and their end users. Using the latest design concepts, Flexiant has reduced complex common work processes into a few simple, wizard driven clicks. The result is a differentiated and easier experience for service provider’s customers helping to increase profit, revenue and growth from cloud services.
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George Knox, CEO, Flexiant said, “With the release of V5, Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator has finally been given the user interface and user experience to match the leading cloud management product. This new UI can make a big difference for service providers trying to enhance the relationship with their customers. The new wizard offers a guided experience for service providers to orchestrate their cloud solutions for customers. The latest version furthers our mission to help service providers profit from the cloud.”
The new user interface (UI), focuses not just on design, but the experience so customers can use Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator without a steep learning curve. V5 offers greater value to the features already available as they become better exposed and more easily consumable for customers. Marco Meinardi, VP of Product, Flexiant said, “Flexiant has for many years been recognized for functional innovation and highly advanced technology. At times, however, this created an overly complex user experience. We decided to start with a blank sheet of paper and redesign complex, common tasks still using the same great cloud management technology, but in a much more user friendly experience.”
Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V5 also includes new functionality including configuration plugins, report plugins and performance based storage.
Configuration Plugins
As an addition to the existing trigger plugins functionality, configuration plugins allows service providers, customers and partners to now use third party plugins (or to write their own) to configure and bill for cloud services delivered by the Flexiant eco-system of partners, completely integrated with the Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator UI.
Meinardi continued, “We’ve evolved our plugin technology so service providers can retain the customer relationship by integrating best of breed technologies that are managed via the Flexiant control panel and billed through Cloud Orchestrator. Configuration plugins allows service providers to expand their portfolio beyond offering just VMs to now offering services like Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS). This helps to add value to the customer.”
Report Plugins
The new user experience available in version 5 also offers a brand new reporting functionality that now adds visual representation of the Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator datasets for better capacity planning and cost control. Service providers can view reports based on resources, provisioned services, metering and billing details and make them available to their customers. Moreover, report plugins allow service providers to easily write their own custom reports to further differentiate their services, in addition to the standard set of reports available in the platform.
Multi-Tiered Storage
V5 offers service providers’ performance based storage functionality. Service providers can make use of the multi-tiered storage functionality to mix different storage types and to deliver hypervisor QoS, by prioritizing IOPS before hitting storage units. “Sometimes customers will need expensive SSD-backed storage with high priority IOPS to house mission critical data whereas non-mission critical data can be housed in less expensive and low priority options. We give service providers this functionality to create the combination of storage products they want to deliver highly differentiated cloud services,” continued Meinardi.
Knox concluded, “V5 continues to offer service providers innovative solutions to cloud services alongside Flexiant Concerto, the fastest way to deploy and automate applications consistently across multiple clouds. We will continue to arm service providers with products that provide flexibility and choice to increase profit, revenue and growth.”
