Moab 7.0 Cloud Suite manages private clouds, primarily for business computing applications including web servers and application servers, Clyde says. Most workloads managed by Moab Cloud Suite run on virtual machines, and the Moab Cloud Suite contains some components that are unique to private cloud environments, such as the service catalog and the cloud operations database, he says. The product can also manage physical provisioning.
“Moab HPC Suite focuses on physically-provisioned machines, since most HPC users do not want the performance penalties associated with virtualization,” says Clyde, noting that the HPC and cloud markets are merging. He says Adaptive may or may not introduce a specific virtualization edition at some point.
The industry trend toward deploying private clouds is growing as enterprises see the cost and staff time reductions they produce, he says. That means cloud platforms have to become easier to use to meet organizations’ needs. The Moab Cloud Suite 7.0 release is the company’s first to include components like provisioning managers, monitoring systems and cloud operations databases out of the box, he says. In this space, they compete with BMC, he adds.
Barnett says there are only a few cloud service providers offering high-performance computing capabilities in a cloud construct, including Sabalcore Computing Inc., which offers an HPC on-demand service in the cloud. According to Clyde, in the HPC space Adaptive competes primarily with Altair and Platform.
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