Press Release: Platform ISF 3.0 Announced

Platform ISF enables enterprises to build a Iaas and/or PaaS environment by creating a shared computing infrastructure from heterogeneous virtual and physical resources. With its workload-smart and resource-aware policies, the resulting environment delivers high utilization while meeting established SLAs.

• Automated, self-service delivery of infrastructure, enabling the delivery of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) through an on-demand, portal- and API-driven access to multi-component application services, tracked and billed according to use. The accompanying SDK enables IT to easily integrate with the portal for plugging in custom components and for tailoring it for their needs.
• Accelerate your PaaS enablement using the new visual, drag-and-drop Cloud Application Designer which allows for defining multi-component/multi-tier cloud applications to deploy IaaS and PaaS easily.
• Workload-smart and resource-aware allocation, through guaranteed resource reservations, coupled with optimum allocation policies, resulting in increased utilization to ensure the right resources are allocated to the right application at the right time.
• Heterogeneous resource integration, satisfying the diverse computing infrastructure requirements across virtual and physical environments, and supporting multiple VM managers (KVM, Xen and VMWare) and operating systems -- from a single-pane-of-glass management platform.
• Automatically scale infrastructure on-the-fly from five to 5,000 hosts to meet application needs no matter how big or small.
• Enhanced security for cloud deployments, incorporating Intel TXT technology, enabling enterprises to deploy private cloud solutions that can create pools of trusted hypervisors.