Ideally, developers will be able to use C3 to create custom cloud platforms that reside on private clouds hosted at remote service providers, giving the ability to leverage large host capabilities, yet keep platforms segregated for private environments, and even combine elements from multiple hosts into a private, unified cloud offering.
"Developers do not want to be locked in to any specific hosting ecosystem, and want the widest choice in development options and price," Cole says. "C3 solves that problem and makes seamless migration between cloud providers easy. It's designed for the evolution of the cloud landscape, in which cross-cloud development is a business necessity. It also enables easy cost estimates of various cloud environments."
Some of the key features of Skydera C3 include consolidated user provisioning, application deployment, cross platform monitoring and library management. Simply put, Skydera C3 offers all of the management and deployment options found under a single-cloud services provider, but it works across multiple providers, creating a unified management paradigm for what would normally be disparate systems.
C3’s integrated dashboard offers drag-and-drop simplicity, with a single-pane-of-glass view into the various components of a cloud offering--including available services, storage pools, availability, health statuses and connections. What’s more, the dashboard offers pull-downs and tabs to quickly switch among service providers, execute analytical functions and generate reports.
Controls and actions are roles-based, allowing IT managers to filter who can do what and control access to more critical components of the dashboard. Currently, Skydera C3 is available under a "free” tier" for small and midsize business users. The company is developing other "tiers" that will have varying pricing levels. (Pricing has not been announced.)
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