HP CloudSystem Matrix is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for private and hybrid cloud environments, allowing users to provision infrastructure in minutes for physical and virtual. This offering includes a self-service infrastructure portal for quick auto-provisioning, along with built-in lifecycle management to optimize infrastructure, manage the resource pools, and help ensure uptime. Using included Cloud APIs, you can easily customize the operating environment to your specific requirements, enabling chargeback and billing integration, integration into approval processes, and other process automation tasks. Matrix is integrated by design with broad support of heterogeneous environments, and it offers cloud-bursting to a variety of public cloud providers including HP Cloud Services. The core elements of a CloudSystem Matrix solution are: - HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures (1 or more) - HP Virtual Connect - HP Matrix Operating Environment - HP Implementation Service