ScaleXtreme Launches Public Cloud Cost and Budgeting Tools
Cloud server automation firm ScaleXtreme is helping shed some light on the costs associated with moving to the cloud with the release of its Xpress, Xpert, and Xtreme financial tools, designed to provide visibility into cloud provider costs.
According to ScaleXtreme, the technology is also the first to unite cost and budget management with server launch management. Customers can set budgets based on user, role or organization and obtain granular usage information. The financial tools are fully integrated into ScaleXtreme’s cloud server management console, which is designed to help customers build, deploy, monitor and patch public cloud instances.
“For the first time, customers can adopt public cloud computing without a nasty billing surprise waiting for them at the end of the month. ScaleXtreme gives customers clear guardrails to both see their spending and become comfortable budgeting for cloud computing,” said Nand Mulchandani, co-founder and CEO of ScaleXtreme, in a prepared statement. “Our products enable some groups within the company to self-serve their server needs from the public cloud while still staying within the budget boundaries that finance and management are comfortable with.”
Basic cost visibility is free with ScaleXtreme Xpress. Additional financial and budget control features are available through the firm’s paid offerings, Xpert and Xtreme. The cost visibility and budgeting tools work with Rackspace and other cloud services built on VMWare VCloud Director, CloudStack and OpenStack. Support for Amazon EC2 will be available soon. Also, ScaleXtreme’s cloud management capability supports IaaS services including CloudStack, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Windows Operating Systems, OpenStack and VMware vCloud.
In February, ScaleXtreme launched a patch management tool for public cloud servers as well as its own channel partner program.
