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The new Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.1 release delivers key new automation enhancements that enable IT organizations to be more agile in delivering the services their business needs while ensuring that those services stay up and running through automation intelligence. The cloud management solution has extended its unique abilities to create agile, automated and adaptive data center and cloud environments that self-optimize and manage to meet dynamic business needs and conditions.

New enhancements and capabilities in Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.1 include:

•New workload management capabilities to improve self-service automation and cloud service reliability by automating customer’s best practice workflows for approving, provisioning and de-commissioning resources. The new workload templates reduce IT staff burden, configuration errors, and issues. The workload templates are also modular in design to enable common provisioning and decommissioning workflow steps to be re-used between cloud services and to leverage existing best practice IT process scripts for maximum efficiency. And these workload templates leverage Moab Adaptive Computing Suite's existing unique management abstraction layer that integrates and organizes the chaos of complex heterogeneous IT environments by orchestrating workflows across multiple heterogeneous resource management tools and integrating with existing workflow engines.

•New holistic management across each cloud service’s environment intelligently manages and applies policies, decisions and actions across the set of resources for a service. This ensures proper provisioning and decommissioning, and avoids issues during the service lifecycle as the different resources are dynamically managed. This mapping and consideration of the relationships between all of the resources of a service further improves the reliability of each service throughout its lifecycle. These extended holistic management capabilities build on Adaptive Computing’s leadership in multi-dimensional analytic policies that model IT resources, workloads, SLAs and priorities across domains to automate real-time decisions and actions.

•Consolidated cloud events reporting gives administrators real-time visibility into resource and workload events and issues to better understand and optimize the performance of their cloud environment. The new events reporting tracks, filters, and enables quick analysis of workload and resource activities and events across the cloud in one view giving administrators a powerful tool to understand and maintain control over dynamic cloud environments. Access to the events reporting is role-based to ensure security of the cloud environment, as only authorized IT staff can access and analyze data in this full cloud view of events.

•Easier portal customization enabled so organizations can tailor the cloud portal to their specific needs with new user interface framework enhancements. The enhancements make it easier for your web developers to create and customize pages in your portal to meet the specific needs of your organization, from branding to custom request forms and data integration.

•Enhanced chargeback flexibility allows you to set chargeback rates for custom billing scenarios such as set-up versus periodic resource usage. These enhancements build on the existing flexible chargeback rates and model capabilities available with the Moab Adaptive Computing Suite to ensure you can implement the showback and chargeback parameters your organization needs.

•Simplified installation for faster time to value with the new Adaptive Solution Installer that accelerates the basic installation process of the solution components so the focus can be on tailoring it to your environment and business needs.