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ScaleXtreme Controls Amazon EC2 Costs with Budgeting and EnforcementSAN MATEO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- ScaleXtreme, the leading provider of server and cloud management products, released new tools for gaining visibility into cloud provider costs, establishing role-based budgets and preventing the launch of unauthorized Amazon EC2 public cloud machines. With this new functionality, ScaleXtreme is the only product on the market that ties together cost monitoring and budgeting to actual server launch control. ScaleXtreme's tools give IT professionals the power to set budgets based on user, role, or organization and get granular usage information. Customers can set soft and hard budget limits to either warn systems administrators of over spend or actively prevent individual users from launching new machines. This additional control comes directly integrated into ScaleXtreme's powerful cloud server management console, which customers use to build, deploy, monitor and patch public cloud instances. It is important to track and enforce budget policies to control inadvertent cost and budget overruns when developers can instantly provision cloud computing infrastructure. ScaleXtreme goes beyond simple cost visibility to provide users with ral control, by preventing the launch of new EC2 instances when hard budget limits have been exceeded. The new ScaleXtreme tools help make the cost of launching and maintaining new instances transparent so IT professionals can make good decisions about their needs. Customers can either use the default costs associated with their public cloud provider instances or set their own, custom per-instance parameters. CFOs, CIOs and IT professionals at all levels can use these tools to adopt public cloud computing with confidence. "ScaleXtreme gives customers clear guardrails to see their spending, become comfortable budgeting for cloud computing and put hard limits on usage," said ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani (News - Alert). "Our products enable groups within a company to self-serve their IT needs from the public cloud while still staying within the budget boundaries that finance and management are comfortable with." The cost visibility and budgeting features works natively with Amazon, Rackspace (News - Alert) and other cloud services built on VMWare VCloud Director, CloudStack and OpenStack. Basic cost visibility for a single cloud provider comes free with ScaleXtreme Xpress. Additional features, including instance launch prevention, are available through ScaleXtreme's paid offerings. Get a free 45-day upgrade to ScaleXtreme's premium offering today by registering for "Controlling Public Cloud and Private Cloud Computing Costs," a free webinar Thursday May 24, 10am PDT at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/613822870 About ScaleXtreme ScaleXtreme provides powerful, cloud-based server automation products for the modern distributed data center. Built from the ground up to be simple, scalable and social, IT gets a single unified automation platform to build and control physical, virtual and public cloud servers. For more information, visit www.scalextreme.com.
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