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The simple solution to multi-cloud workload
management and portability.
What is the biggest opportunity for cloud service providers today? What do service providers need to capture this
opportunity? The answer to the first question is the next generation application market. This is rapidly emerging as the
biggest and fastest growing user community of public cloud services. To capture this market, you need to provide services
that consistently support and simplify the application management lifecycle (ALM) across both your public cloud and
others. Flexiant Concerto gives you this unique and differentiated ability.
Flexiant Concerto is a hosted platform enabling multi-cloud ALM. Service providers wanting to offer their customers a
platform supporting cloud-optimized next generation applications across multiple clouds need look no further than Flexiant
Concerto.
Whether you are targeting DevOps, developers or IT professionals, Flexiant Concerto’s intuitive interface, extensive
functionality and support for virtually any public or private cloud technology will save you significant time, effort and risk,
while opening up new revenue streams.
The Benefits of Flexiant Concerto
Consistency and Simplicity
Configuration Management
Multi-cloud lifecycle management can be a complex
business. It’s difficult to ensure consistency and
compatibility across multiple applications, cloud provider
APIs, security profiles, storage environments and so on
without the right tools in place. It can also be risky.
Flexiant Concerto is designed to make the process
of configuring and managing an application as
straightforward and streamlined as possible, throughout
its lifecycle. Building an application using our templates
takes minutes via our intuitive interface. The template
feature enables you to build a single application
blueprint which can then be deployed and redeployed
at any time, on any cloud. Patches and updates can be
invoked using the in-built automated processes.
Flexiant Concerto removes the pain of managing all
this by automating the various processes involved. Its
automated application stack enables consistency and
portability across your clouds of choice. By using the
hundreds of provided Chef recipes your users can deploy,
replicate and port virtual servers across multiple clouds
without any further work required.
Single Pane of Glass Monitoring and
Management
Flexiant Concerto’s single pane of glass monitoring
and management of your customers’ entire application
infrastructure, makes mult-cloud management easy to
achieve with minimal effort. It gives service providers the
ability to get on with running and selling cloud services
without having to worry about the underlying complexity.
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Integrated DNS
Servers deployed on the cloud need to communicate
with each other or with the outside world. Flexiant
Concerto includes an interface to manage the Internet
domains and host names of your cloud infrastructure, all
completely independent from the cloud provider that the
individual servers are using. This is done automatically
upon virtual server creation. It means you no longer need
to set up your own DNS server.
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DNS Geo-Localization and Load Balancing
Flexiant Concerto’s DNS geo-localization and load balancing
features allows end users to access your customers’ website
with the least latency possible by being directed to the
server nearest to their geographical location. Configuring
more than one virtual server with the same DNS record will
make Flexiant Concerto round-robin over the set of active
servers nearest to the user in order to respond.
This also enables:
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workload distribution (scaling out)
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redundancy
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fault tolerance (a server can be removed from the DNS
when it goes down)
Examples of integrated services include:
Application Performance Monitoring
New Relic’s SaaS application monitoring tool is tightly
integrated with the Flexiant Concerto platform and interface,
offering a unified, single pane of glass enabling optimal
application monitoring. The integration enables application
aware autoscaling.
Network Load Balancing
Flexiant Concerto’s integrated multi-tenant layer-4 network
load balancer can easily be configured within the definition
of a server array. With a server array, an end user defines a
pool of servers. Flexiant Concerto will automatically distribute
workloads and identify non-responsive servers based on regular
health checks. Non-responsive servers can be automatically
removed from the pool. The Flexiant Concerto load balancer
can support SSL termination, thereby offloading the heavy
lifting of handling encryption from your application server.
Network Monitoring
Boundary’s real-time flow analytics enables you to identify
potential hot spots and bottlenecks for traffic between all the
services you deploy in the cloud. It combines early warnings
for latency and outages as well as configuration and security
issue detection, with rapid resolution of any identified issues.
Application Aware Auto-scaling
Traditional infrastructure resource-based auto-scaling (such
as CPU or memory based) is limited in its usefulness as they
are too low in the stack to be a reliable representation of the
user experience. Flexiant Concerto application-aware autoscaling reallocates resources based on the responsiveness of
the application itself.
A server array can be configured in Flexiant Concerto to
automatically scale up or down by adding or removing
virtual servers, based on Apdex values. Apdex is a standard
metric for measuring the performance of an application. As
a result, your customer’s infrastructure will be scaled only
when real user experience is affected.
Log Analysis
With Sumo Logic, we offer highly scalable log management
and analytics. Your cloud based machines’ log data is
monitored, analyzed and visualized, enabling most common
trend detection and troubleshooting on your applications and
operational infrastructure. It allows you to provide proactive
maintenance and ensure service availability.
Integrated Services
Business Intelligence
To maximize the functionality that Flexiant Concerto can offer,
we have integrated with a number of best of breed software
as a service (SaaS) partners. This integration includes the
automatic installation of the agent upon virtual server creation,
account registration, single sign-on and service configuration.
Mixpanel gives service providers business intelligence
visibility over how their users are using Flexiant Concerto. This
includes monitoring which particular cloud provider, features
and functions are used the most, as well as promotional
activity and marketing campaign tracking.
Real-time data on server activity is sent to the partner’s SaaS
application via API calls. This data is processed by the partner
application and the resulting reports are displayed in the
Flexiant Concerto interface.
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Features
Multi-Cloud Lifecycle Management
Description
Feature
VIRTUAL SERVER
Extensive public and private cloud support
AWS, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Joyent, Instant Servers, Linode,
GoGrid, Arsys, Cloud Sigma, IBM Smart Cloud, Acens
APPLICATION
Portability
Application stacks portable across multiple clouds
Configuration
Easy configuration of application stacks via single user interface
Autoscale
Application-aware (Apdex-based) auto-scaling up or down
Templates
Application blueprints to deploy as needed for multiple virtual
servers
Security patching
Automated patching of applications
Upgrades
Automated upgrading of applications
Universal scripting support
Support for any scripting language
SECURITY PROFILE
Firewall profiles
Cloud-agnostic management of firewall profiles
SSH key management
Cloud-agnostic management of SSH keys on cloud infrastructure
OBJECT STORE
Broad compatibility
Support for AWS S3, Joyent Manta, Rackspace Files and any S3compatible object store
Multi Volumes
Replicated storage objects across different cloud providers object
stores
File Delivery Network (FDN)
Ability to serve a file stored in a multi volume from the closest
replicate to the user
Integrated services
Feature
Partner
Description
Application performance monitoring
New Relic
Based on Apdex, enables application-aware
auto-scaling
Log analysis
Sumo Logic
Log trend detection and troubleshooting
Network monitoring
Boundary
Real-time network performance analytics
Business Intelligence
Mix Panel
Analytics for understanding platform
utilization and marketing intelligence
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Billing and Reporting
Description
Feature
Granular VM/hour reporting
Specified time interval report of all billable activity i.e. VM/hours
managed by Flexiant Concerto, by FQDN and customer
DNS Management
Description
Feature
DNS publishing
Automatic publishing of fully qualified domain name upon
virtual server creation
Load balancing
Load balancing and failover across servers at the DNS level
Geolocalization
Automatically connect the user to the server located closest to
them geographically for lower latency
Metering and reporting
In-depth metering and reporting on DNS activity
Network Load Balancing
Description
Feature
Multi-tenant
Enabling customers to only pay for the load balancing resources
they use
In/out traffic metering and reporting
Granular monitoring information by load balancer
Supports HTTP or HTTPS
SSL termination capability
Multiple supported protocols
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Round robin
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Static round robin
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Least connections
User interface
Description
Feature
Intuitive
Easy to use, intuitive graphical user interface
Customizable
Whitelabelable (Service Provider Edition)
Wizard-based workflows
Guided processes to resource creation
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