1.0 What Cloud Manager Does

NetIQ Cloud Manager, a WorkloadIQ product from NetIQ, transforms your virtual infrastructure into a true Cloud environment. Built to operate with your existing VMware virtual hosts, Cloud Manager accelerates delivery of services through on-demand requesting of workloads and automated provisioning of the workloads.

Whether you are an private or public service provider, your customers demand timely access to the computing resources needed to run their businesses. Even with a virtual infrastructure in place, providing new services to customers can require you to research the requirements, create or customize the appropriate virtual machines, and then deploy the virtual machines accordingly, all of which can exhaust valuable time and effort.

Cloud Manager lets you expose your virtual computing resources in a manner that enables your customers to easily consume them for business services and you to deliver the services efficiently, automatically, and on time.

The following sections explain what Cloud Manager does to transform your virtual infrastructure into flexible, reliable, and secure Cloud environment: