Agility is a Cloud Management product which enables the flexible sharing of IT resources and services within an organisation, and beyond. Agility delivers the benefits of sharing with accountability and control.
Agility transforms traditional IT infrastructure into a flexible, agile Private Cloud and allows clouds (private and public) to be networked together in order to share service without sacrificing the independence of each organisation.
Sharing IT resources and services enables costs to be reduced and delivers greater business agility. Agility supports sharing between departments, independent organizations, and between private and public clouds.
With Agility organizations may be connected together into a Federation in which sharing occurs through cooperation and mutual agreement but each party retains independence. By this means resources and services may be accessed by users, shared between departments, between partner organisations and between private and public clouds.
Sharing is enabled when it can be seen to be of measurable benefit. Agility provides accountability for both the benefits, and any associated costs, of sharing, and by doing so, encourages further sharing.
Agility delivers accountability through its use of Service Agreements which record the responsibilities of all parties and identifies whether or not these are being met. With service agreements in place administrators can monitor performance and can be informed when quality of service is threatened in order to take remedial action.
Resources must remain under the ultimate control of the organization responsible for the capital and/or operating costs. Agility ensures that resources may be shared when desirable but used exclusively when required.
Agility puts control into the hands of administrators through its support for pluggable Policy. This controls which service agreements are to be entered into, how they are to be supported and under which conditions they may be terminated. Policy captures the intent of the administrator.
