Cloudify is an orchestration-first cloud management platform, that is open source and based on the TOSCA standard, with multi-cloud and hybrid stack support. Cloudify supports all of the most popular clouds, alongside cloud native technologies, and even non-virtualized and bare metal environments. Cloudify is inherently built for integration, OEMability and interoperability, enabling organizations to build best of breed IT stacks, with full lifecycle automation - day 0 thorugh day 2 operations (provisioning, deployment, monitoring and remediation) of enterprise and legacy applications alongside networking services and functions - without having to sacrifice control, all while providing tools for operations and developers alike. Cloudify provides a single pane of glass across infrastructure, while supporting your existing tools and installbase.
Cloudify is built for pluggability through its open architecture model, bringing the web scale best practices of orchestration and automation into the world of hybrid stacks and clouds. With powerful workflows that map to complex dependencies, policies and relationships through model driven service orchestration, Cloudify delivers robust cloud application management without requiring organizations to change existing work processes or the codebase of their existing applications.
VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is the most up-to-date infrastructure automation platform using performance-based administration and compliance. vRA is created to facilitate organizations to better manage and secure self-service clouds and multi-cloud automation using administration and DevOps-based infrastructure delivery. Organizations using vRA receive the advantages of improved flexibility, reliability, speed, and scalability while they minimize the overall challenges in managing their IT environments, simplify the overall IT process, and deliver a DevOps-ready platform.
vRA seamlessly automates the provision of IT services by creating a platform for delivering and managing applications. With the utilization of its various robust aspects, vRA allows for speedy workflow automation, intuitive automated application infrastructure delivery, seamless multi-cloud provisioning, and secure software configuration management.
This robust cloud automation software lets you deploy across a multi-vendor hybrid cloud infrastructure, giving you both flexibility and investment protection for current and future technology choices.
Benefits of VMware vRealize Automation (vRA)
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Speed: vRA provides intuitive workflow templates to facilitate a faster delivery time to market.
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User-friendly: vRA quickly creates and manages multi-cloud environments using its intuitive automation platform.
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Modernization: vRA accelerates the promotion of new, cloud-native technologies with a progressive, robust platform built on DevOps principles.
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Security: Set up your own policies and protocols across multi-cloud environments and reinforce infrastructure with vulnerability remediation and intuitive compliance management.
Features of VMware vRealize Automation (vRA)
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VMware Cloud Agnostic Template allows users to utilize a single cloud template on any public cloud (Azure, AWS, Google, and more) or VMware cloud with Infrastructure as Code.
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Configuration management allows users to attain super-fast control for cloud and virtualized environments, compliance enforcement, and vulnerability remediation.
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Customization: Users have access to the latest tools for customization and resilience with Action-Based Extensibility (ABX), vRealize Orchestrator, and other built-in integrations with many popular third-party applications.
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Self-Service Multi-Cloud: Users are able to create and deliver infrastructure resources across different clouds using a unified and consistent IaaS consumption layer, idempotent REST API, and self-service catalog.
Reviews from Real Users
Awais J., CTO/CEO at a tech services company, says, "The automation part is most valuable. Because it is a VMware product, the automation capabilities that come with vRA are pretty extensive. We can integrate and build a lot of features on top of it, which makes it extremely useful for us."
Aravind N., IT Service Manager at Allianz, relates, “vRA helps automate deployment for developers. We do a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment so it will suit each of our customers. We have different business units that have their own templates. This solution has made it very simple for developers. In a way, a layman or NOC guy can deploy a VM. Once they are familiar with the offerings, they can just deploy it without knowing what is going on in the back-end.”
