Flexiant unveils new cloud orchestrator platform

LONDON, UK: Flexiant, cloud orchestration software provider launched Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator version 4, aimed squarely at helping service providers increase profit, revenue and growth from cloud services.

451 Group, Research Director for Infrastructure Software, Michael Coté said: "It's clear that there's a rising demand for public cloud services, creating a pull from service providers for cloud enablement platforms. The challenge for service providers is to simultaneously stand up robust cloud services and at the same time establish differentiated services for which service providers can charge more than just commodity cloud prices to rise above cookie cutter approaches."

Flexiant has opened up version 4 of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to deliver a new platform that supports easy integration with third party technologies, as well as future support for OpenStack. This gives service providers access to a wide range of third party plugins allowing them to tailor a vast arsenal of differentiated services with which to secure new customers and revenue stream.

As the only management software needed to power a cloud, service providers can now compete against Amazon's ease of use, while differentiating in the cloud industry with customizable software that allows them to deploy solutions right for their customers.

Tony Lucas, SVP Product and founder said: "Central to offering a complete range of cloud services is our new Plugin ‘Trigger' technology which opens up our platform. It allows service providers to differentiate by applying customization to core business logic and enable ecosystem partners to tightly integrate with the platform through both inbound and outbound APIs."

"The Plugin Trigger technology is the landmark feature within Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V4 because we now offer the ability for service providers to easily modify and extend their platform based on their own needs, increasing the ability to differentiate, and to deliver the services their customers want."

Flexiant also announced today its product roadmap that includes support for OpenStack in Summer 2014. Flexiant will give service providers a rapidly deployable, functionally rich, service provider ready solution based on OpenStack, extending its existing similar capabilities for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V as well as its continued direct support for Xen and KVM.