Features & Benefits
EVO - Faster, Easier, and Ready for the Enterprise
EVO is the result of Enigmatec's successful deployments for large-scale customers and provides comprehensive, multi-platform, enterprise-class automation for IT operations teams who manage highly dynamic and distributed virtual infrastructures. EVO scales easily to manage hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines and lets you maintain control of rapidly-expanding virtual environments and user communities of any size.
Highlights of EVO Include:
Faster Virtual Machine Deployment
- Rapid and accurate form-based data collection utilizing pick-lists, radio-buttons and sliders.
- Minimal data collection from the end-user through rich specification of machine configurations.
- Powerful blueprint technology extends the basic virtual machine template.
Simplified Virtual Infrastructure Administration:
- Automated end-to-end machine build and configuration.
- Automatic notification to approver via email when problem resolution is required.
Comprehensive Access Controls:
- Full create / update / view permission capability on machine specification, instantiation and subsequent machine manipulation (i.e. suspend or delete)
- Restricted access to virtual machines by role, project, or blueprint.
- Reduced Virtual Server Sprawl with Automated Lease Management:
- Expiry date captured from the user at machine request time.
- Email notification sent to the user and administrator on the expiry date.
Seamless Integration with Directory Services and Email:
- Automatic creation / deletion of virtual machines in Active Directory / LDAP.
- Email notifications created and sent to the user and approver throughout the request / approval process.
Full Auditing and Resource Utilization Tracking:
- Records each process automation step, including requests, approvals, and provisioning.
- All operations on a machine are recorded, such as stop, start, delete.
- Customizable Machine Approval, Provisioning and Management Policies:
- Enigmatec's powerful EMS automation platform is the foundation for EVO.
- Easy, graphical design studio for defining and modifying approval and provisioning policies.
- Extend / amend approval policies to include external systems such as Remedy Service Desk.
- Extend / amend provisioning policies to include external systems such as patch management tools.
Flexible Presentation Technology:
- Ships with the open source portal Liferay.
- Supports Microsoft SharePoint.
- Compliant with any portal running Java Specification Request 168.
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| Powerful Service-Orientated Design | Extensibility and Flexibility | |
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| Peer-to-Peer Run-Time Execution | Scalability and Resiliency | |
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| Vendor-Neutral Platform | Rapid Deployment | |
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| Service-Level Management | Business Focus | |
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