Infosys launched the 'Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub',a first unified enterprise gateway to a hybrid cloud environment. According to the company, this solution enables enterprises to create, adopt and govern cloud services across the ecosystem.
In an exclusive interaction with DATAQUEST, Vishnu Bhat, Vice-President and Global Head - Cloud, Infosys explained, Our clients are dealing with complexities of a fragmented Cloud environment. The Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub provides organizations a unified gateway to build, manage and govern their hybrid cloud ecosystem. This solution allows clients to fully realize the benefits from the long-standing promise of the Cloud.
'The Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub' enables rapid adoption of Cloud services, said Vishnu. The unified self-service catalog feature enables enterprises to quickly subscribe to relevant information technology (IT) and business services across multiple environments. The solution can dynamically provision IT infrastructure and platforms on a hybrid cloud environment in minutes.
"Almost 60% of enterprises will be sharing work load over the cloud and out of public and private cloud; hybrid cloud is a reality for most of the entrprises currently," added Vishnu,Infosys.
The smart brokerage feature of the Infosys cloud ecosystem hub provides an enterprise-wide decision support mechanism to select, compare and deploy cloud services from across providers. Decisions can be based on evaluation of over 20 parameters such as quality of service, technology compatibility, regulatory compliance needs and total cost of ownership of application workloads.
The Hub provides a single-window view of the enterprise Cloud ecosystem and brings cohesion into an otherwise fragmented IT environment across private and public Cloud with on-premise IT. The solution enables easy monitoring of Cloud resource usage and optimizes utilization. It provides consolidated metering and billing thereby enabling service charge-backs.
According to the company,Infosys collaborates with over 30 of the worlds leading providers of Cloud infrastructure, applications and platforms including Amazon Web Services, CA Technologies, Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Microsoft and VMware among others.