Nutanix Calm: Application Centric Automation
Advanced application-level orchestration that transforms how IT teams manage applications and support the business
Overview:
IT teams constantly seek to improve overall IT agility and enable more rapid innovation. However, application development and delivery is growing in complexity, making this agility particularly challenging. Organizational silos create cross-discipline overhead and slow the ability to deliver business value.
Calm provides advanced application-level orchestration that transforms how IT teams manage applications and support the business. Fully integrated into the Nutanix platform, Calm delivers a powerful, common management framework that can be simultaneously leveraged by multiple IT teams to rapidly create and deliver applications.
By approaching applications as complete entities, not just virtual machines (VMs), Calm automates how applications are created, consumed and governed. Calm delivers simple, repeatable and automated management of applications across a variety of environments, including private and public clouds.
Application Lifecycle Management and Cloud Orchestration
Nutanix Calm adds native application orchestration and lifecycle management to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Calm decouples application management from the underlying infrastructure - enabling applications to be easily deployed into private or public cloud environments. The addition of advanced application management to the Nutanix platform turns common tasks into repeatable automations accessible to all IT teams, without giving up control across the infrastructure stack.
Calm brings advanced policy-based governance, allowing applications to be automatically provisioned into public clouds, with full visibility of cost and utilization. Organizations can intelligently balance renting versus buying when making infrastructure decisions. A common framework for modeling both applications and infrastructure breaks down rigid IT silos and accelerates the overall time to production for critical applications and services
Customizable Blueprints
Features:
Application Lifecycle Management
Simplify the set-up and management of custom enterprise applications by incorporating all elements of each app, including relevant VMs, configurations and related binaries, into an easy-to-use-blueprint that is managed by the infrastructure team. By making the deployment and lifecycle management of common applications both automated and easily repeatable, infrastructure teams can eliminate the hours and days devoted to routine application management.
- End-to-End Application View
View and provision complete applications, not just individual application components, such as VMs. - Definable Actions and Dependencies
Define lifecycle policies that automate the configuration of multiple app components in a single operation. - Unified Application Language
Provide a single flexible construct to improve collaboration between teams and avoid cross-discipline errors.
Self-service Provisioning with Nutanix Marketplace
Blueprints can be published directly for end user consumption through the Nutanix Marketplace, giving application owners and developers the ability to request IT services that can then be instantly provisioned.
- Local Marketplace
Configure and publish custom app blueprints for internal consumption, sharing best practices and operational expertise between groups. - Global Marketplace
Download pre-integrated and validated blueprints from the Nutanix Marketplace to quickly introduce new applications into the environment.
Role-based Governance
Provide IT administrators with role-based governance that limits user operations based on permissions. All activities and changes are centrally logged for end-to-end traceability and debugging, aiding security teams with key compliance initiatives.
- All Platforms, One Service
Single, unified interface for managing applications across multiple infrastructures. - Detailed Budgeting
Department and group-level chargeback and cost controls to carefully monitor IT expenses across public and private clouds. - End-to-End Audits
Capture all changes to the IT environment across the full infrastructure stack - storage, compute, virtualization and applications.
Hybrid Cloud Management
Automate the provisioning of hybrid cloud architectures, scaling both multi-tiered and distributed applications across different cloud environments. Calm’s policy-based reporting shows the overall utilization and true cost of your public cloud consumption at a glance so that application provisioning decisions are based on business needs and budget requirements.
Calm Integrations & Partners
Native Capabilities:
Application Lifecycle Management
Fully automate the provisioning, scaling, and deletion of both traditional multi-tiered applications and modern distributed services using pre-integrated blueprints that make management of applications in private and public clouds extremely simple.
Customizable Blueprints
Simplify the set-up and management of custom enterprise applications by incorporating all elements of each app, including relevant VMs, configurations and related binaries, into an easy-to-use-blueprint that is managed by the infrastructure team. IT teams can eliminate the hours and days currently devoted to routine application management.
Nutanix Marketplace
Blueprints can be published directly to end users through the Nutanix Marketplace, giving application owners and developers the ability to request IT services that can then be instantly provisioned.
Governance
Calm maintains control with role-based governance that limits user operations based on permissions. Additionally, all activities and changes are centrally logged for end-to-end traceability, aiding security teams with key compliance initiatives.
Hybrid Cloud Management
Automate the provisioning of Hybrid Cloud architectures, scaling both multi-tiered and distributed applications across different cloud environments, including AWS. Calm shows the overall utilization and true cost of your public cloud consumption at a glance so that decisions are based on business needs and budget requirements.
Turn time-consuming tasks into one-click automations
Foster collaboration and eliminate knowledge silos
Maintain visibility and control of public cloud consumption
Documentation:
Download the Nutanix Calm Datasheet (.PDF)