Self-Service Application Infrastructure

Anyone that has ever used an ATM machine or airport kiosk knows that these types of systems save users time and simplify complex tasks, while for the providers of these systems they automate previously manual executed tasks to help drive down costs.

DataSynapse is applying self-service to the provisioning of application infrastructure such as application servers, messaging middleware and databases. The goal of self-service application infrastructure from DataSynapse is to make the set up of application infrastructure as simple and straightforward as a cash withdrawal from an ATM or checking in for your flight at an airline kiosk.

The average enterprise IT organization develops and hosts 1000+ software applications, with thousands of developers requiring IT infrastructure and operations teams to configure and set up application infrastructure. Today most organizations are forced to configure and provision application infrastructure for developers manually.

Self-service application infrastructure from DataSynapse provides self-service, 1-click provisioning of enterprise application infrastructure to developers, and centralized control of technology, processes and costs to IT operations teams.

For Application Developers

For application developers, self-service application provisioning hides the complexity of setting up and managing application infrastructure, behind a simple Web based portal. By automating the set up of application infrastructure, developers can focus on bringing new applications to market quickly and helping businesses react quickly to market and customer demands.

For IT Operations Teams

For IT Operations teams, self-service application infrastructure provides centralized control of technology, processes and costs, enabling IT Operations teams to control how and when developers gain access to complex infrastructure.

Organizational Benefits

Organizations that adopt self-service application infrastructure will lower the time and costs of deploying complex enterprise applications, and create efficient processes that will simplify the deployment of low cost virtualized server environments and even lower cost external cloud computing platforms such as the Amazon EC2 cloud platform.

With self-service application provisioning, infrastructure architects can define, build and share standard application infrastructure templates (e.g., clustered Java web application server). A template based approach is more efficient and cost effective, because IT organizations can standardize application architectures and developers can then select from standard templates as defined by infrastructure architects, as a starting point for their applications.

As enterprise applications move into the cloud and more of the datacenter becomes virtualized, self-service application provisioning will become an important strategy for lowering costs, and making IT operations more efficient.

Click here to download the Self-Service Data Sheet

Click here to download the White Paper: FabricServer Self-Service Framework