Cloud initiatives require an understanding of the whole service value chain from Service Design to Service Transition and finally Service Fulfillment. To become services-oriented, IT organizations must discontinue operating in a siloed fashion or single-domain mode and adopt a cross-domain service management strategy.
The N(i)2 Cloud Lifecycle Management solution enables you to transition from a build-as-you-go model, to one where you design and build infrastructure capacity that is ready for services provisioning. The solution independently manages the Service and Infrastructure lifecycles holistically across the IT, Networks, Facilities and Cloud domains all the while depicting where the two lifecycles are linked and how they are dependent on each other.
The N(i)2 Cloud Lifecycle Management solution oversees cloud services from design through retirement with the following capacity:
Design consistent services, ready for delivery
Design Cloud Ready infrastructure
Develop technical plans for transitioning into a cloud environment
Enable faster provisioning of cloud services
Offer a self-service portal driven by a service catalog
Actively manage capacity to ensure optimal use of hardware resources
The N(i)2 Cloud Lifecycle Management solution includes the following software modules:
