Enabling IT-as-a-Service for the Enterprise

Embrane enables easier capacity planning, lower costs and faster time to service for enterprise IT departments.  The company’s distributed software platform for virtualizing layer 4-7 network services, heleos, delivers the benefits of an outsourced cloud model to enterprise customers with the peace of mind of in-house management.

Prior to the explosion of cloud computing and virtualization, internal IT departments were in full control of their applications and services.  Hosting providers were extensions of IT, with the same architectural choices as the enterprise.  And, Amazon sold books.  Times have changed. Amazon competes with internal IT, and hosting providers differentiate themselves on agility and programmability. In the era of cloud and virtualization, which is just now reaching the network, enterprise IT has three options:

1. Fight the cloud and maintain the status quo;
2. Let the cloud become IT; or
3. Take control and drive elastic network services into their private/hybrid cloud infrastructure much like cloud service providers and Amazon.

IT’s Time to Take Control

Embrane’s heleos enables enterprise customers to infuse a new level of agility at the network level, regardless of their cloud architecture (e.g. public, private, hybrid...).  By leveraging heleos for the delivery of layer 4-7 network services, enterprises can dynamically adapt to changing environments and the growing need to support faster development cycles caused by the proliferation of applications. Enterprise IT retains tighter control of network services and reduces costs by creating a real-time self-service model made possible by the cloud.

The elasticity of heleos-powered network services dramatically reduces capacity planning cycles, requires less over-provisioning, eliminates the need for just-in-case hardware purchases and provides the enterprise with a true multi-tenant service model.  With heleos’s real-time provisioning capabilities, IT no longer has to be constrained by lengthy procurement and provisioning times and battle the perception they are a bottleneck.

With Embrane, Enterprise IT can maintain control, respond more rapidly to changing business needs, drive efficiency across the organization, and become a true business enabler.