The ScaleUp Vision for Cloud Management

Our vision since day one has been to solve the challenges at the cloud “point of purchase” – that magical spot where a consumer and provider of cloud resources meet.

The point of purchase is where consumers locate, order and manage the resources they need. It’s the spot where providers manage their users, offer capacity, manage and monitor those resources, charge for them, enforce and apply automation, governance, security and other business rules and ultimately provide a service. In other words, there’s a lot going on at the point of purchase.

It doesn’t matter if the provider is an enterprise IT department in a private/hybrid cloud or if they are a tiny MSP offering public cloud or anything in between. It also doesn’t matter if the user is a business IT user sitting in a cubicle farm or if they are a developer in a garage somewhere – the issues are the same often just with different labels.

Here are just a few of the things we consider every time we want to add something to our platform:

Consumer:

  • Is not a cloud expert
  • In general, does not know (or care) about how or why things work
  • Does not have the desire or time to learn a complex system/process
  • Wants a single, integrated platform for their IT resources and activities

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    Provider:

  • Needs to support a wide range of use cases and user types
  • Has great technology inside the datacenter, that is their primary focus
  • Wants to offer complex technology in a simple, self-service manner

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    Bottom line is that ScaleUp is bridging the gap between users and the technology inside the datacenter that those users need- delivering the ideal integrated “point of purchase” solution.