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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.
FEATURES AT A GLANCE   BENEFITS AT A GLANCE
Powerful Service-Orientated Design   Extensibility and Flexibility
  • Structured Approach to Policy Creation
  • Policies are Independent of Deployment Details
  • Integrated Policy Simulation and Testing
 
  • "Building Block" Policy Design
  • Reusable and Flexible Policies
  • Higher Quality Workflows and Policies
Peer-to-Peer Run-Time Execution   Scalability and Resiliency
  • No Central Server
  • Fully Distributed Policy Execution
  • Parallel Policy Execution
  • Self Managing Agents
 
  • No Single Point of Failure
  • Better Performance
  • Improved Response Times
  • Rapid Deployment and Low-Touch Maintenance
Vendor-Neutral Platform   Rapid Deployment
  • Library of Pre-Built Adapters
  • Powerful API and Script Importing
 
  • Works with Existing IT Resources
  • Rapid Integration and Migration
Service-Level Management   Business Focus
  • Service-Level Objective Monitoring and Control
  • Service-Level Agreement Monitoring
 
  • Ties Business Goals to IT Operations
  • View Business Level Performance at Any Level

Learn more about EVO In Action