Flexiant Extility vs IBM Service Delivery Manager comparison

Extility is Flexiant’s software that powers the FlexiScale cloud platform. Extility provides a complete end-to-end solution, enabling you to start with a few of your own physical servers, a switch and some storage, add our software on top, and you have a complete working end-to-end cloud platform, including server/storage/network management, customer management, billing/chargeback, customer self-service, reporting etc. In addition, Extility is designed in a very modular fashion, which allows it to integrate easily with any of your existing CRM/Billing/Management systems.

IBM Service Delivery Manager is a single solution that provides all the necessary software components to implement cloud computing. Cloud computing is a services acquisition and delivery model for IT resources, which can help improve business performance and control the costs of delivering IT resources to an organization. As a cloud computing quick start, IBM Service Delivery Manager allows organizations to benefit from this delivery model in a defined portion of their data center or for a specific internal project. Potential benefits include:

• Reduction in operational and capital expenditures.
• Enhanced productivity - the ability to innovate more with fewer resources.
• Decreased time-to-market for business features that increase competitiveness.
• Standardized and consolidated IT services that drive improved resource utilization.
• Increased resiliency to market demands.
• Improved quality of service for IT consumers.