Cloud computing Platform Blueprint

Automation is the ability to dynamically deploy, monitor, manage, and protect your IT infrastructure to meet business needs with little or no human intervention.

Customers can refer to automated blueprints to plan their own cloud computing platforms, turning cloud computing tasks into an automated capability so customers can stop focusing on IT and focus on their own business needs and goals.

Figure 5-6 Automation Blueprint

At the bottom of the blueprint is the basic part. Software and system resources with automated capabilities that serve a higher level of automation. Many of these resources can be virtualized. To achieve the highest levels of on-demand automation, resources must be virtualized in order to dynamically deploy these resources as required by business policies.

The penultimate layer shows the main automation capabilities:

Usability: Ensure the system can be used. Security: Protects the system from threats, provides a large number of users with the ability to access the applications and data they need, and blocks unwanted users. Optimization: provides tools to ensure that all resources run at the highest performance and efficiency, to ensure maximum ROI. Deployment: Focus on the independent elements in the self-configuring and dynamic allocation of IT infrastructure so that the relevant parts can be deployed correctly based on business requirements.

The above layer, called policy-based process development (policy-based orchestration), helps customers automate the four-part functionality we have just discussed so that the entire IT infrastructure can dynamically respond to changes based on defined business policies. Build on the best practices summed up by the customer's common IT experience to ensure that complex deployments are done quickly and with high quality.

Finally, business Service management (Business services Management) capabilities provide tools to manage service levels, measure system usage, and issue bills based on usage. Simultaneously modeling, consolidating, connecting, monitoring, and managing end-to-end business processes, complete integration of IT and business processes.