Jamcracker's cloud management platform enables enterprises to control, govern, and manage their cloud resources across multiple providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Key features include real-time analytics, budgeting functionalities, automated alerts, and lifecycle management for virtual machines and resources, aimed at optimizing cloud costs and resource utilization. The platform also supports customizable policies and centralized catalog management for better governance and operational efficiency.

1. Jamcracker, Inc.
4677 Old Ironsides Drive
Santa Clara
CA, USA 95054
Jamcracker’s Cloud Management Platform:
Control, Govern and Manage
Enterprise Cloud Resources
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2. Purpose
Jamcracker Cloud Control provides a unified cloud management
solution to integrate the disparate cloud environments
Allows you to control your cloud resources with automation,
orchestration, policy enforcement and management tools
Helps IT to rein cloud sprawl while enterprises adopt cloud services
across the organization
Govern and manage cloud resources, set resource thresholds and use
policies to automatically terminate resources
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3. Features
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Analytics & Reporting
IaaS Dashboards with summary of resources on a real time basis
Analyze based on the granular details of the Consumption Report
Cloud Analytics Dashboard displaying data related to costs and consumption
Governance
Departmental catalogs
Ability to launch & provision servers for Azure, AWS, Google Cloud & IBM Bluemix
IaaS Lifecycle management
Approval based Workflow
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4. Features
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Centralized Cloud Management
Control through automated Alerts and Events
Govern costs using Budgeting functionality
Showback Report to monitor the budgetary allocations versus actual utilization
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5. ANALYTICS &
REPORTING
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6. IaaS Resource Dashboard
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Real Time Dashboard enables you to
get a snapshot of real-time cloud
usage and cost data of various
resources. It gives you instant
visibility into the resources that are
being used or are idle, ownership of
these resources and current cloud
cost associated with these resources.

7. Recommendation Dashboard
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The platform provides recommendations to optimize your cloud cost by identifying underutilized or unused
instances/images/snapshots/database/IPs. By downsizing or turning off instances that have been forgotten or
overlooked, ensures you don’t end up paying for resources that are not in use.

8. Executive Dashboard
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Executive Dashboard tracks key
cloud trends such as costs and
resources in order to help customer
oversee all of their cloud costs
centrally.

9. Cost Analytics Dashboard
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Cost Analytics Dashboard provides a
comprehensive view of the cloud
cost trends and usage patterns by
projects, departments, products,
vendors, and business units.

10. Tag Analytics Dashboard
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Tag Analytics Dashboard helps you
organize your cloud resources based
on tags and provides the ability to
categorize them for billing purposes.

11. EA Dashboard
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EA dashboard is specifically designed
to manage Azure EA account. Azure
enterprise account (EA) can have
multiple departments, each
department can have multiple
accounts and each account can have
multiple subscriptions.
Jamcracker Cloud Control provides
you a unique EA dashboard to
analyse cost based on departments,
accounts and subscriptions.

12. Widget Availability by Cloud Provider
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We progressively implement different widgets for
every cloud service. However, some of the cloud
service providers do not provide all the information
required for a widget.
Click here or double click on the image to the left to
view widget availability by cloud provider matrix.

13. Daily Consumption Report
• Shows usage data for each day
• Reports usage for all products, all vendors
• Data includes:
– Vendors
– Products/Services
– Usage quantity
– Cost of each IaaS resource consumed
– Tags associated with the resources

14. Create Custom Reports
Administrators
can design
custom reports
from the Reports
tab.

15. Create Custom Reports
Following Reports can be created:
- Daily Consumption
- Order Information

16. Create Custom Reports
Choose from a
wide range of
fields for the
report

17. Showback Report
Showback report
is available
under the
Budgeting
functionality

18. Showback Report
Showback report
is available
under the
Budgeting
functionality

19. GOVERNANCE
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20. • Policies - automated rules
– Send alerts for usage
– Shutdown/Restart VMs
– Delete old Snapshots & Block Volumes
• Budgeting
– Allocate budgets to Business Units/Projects/Teams etc
– View consumption based on Business Units/Projects/Teams
etc.
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Governance

21. • Define Custom Templates
– AppStacks Template allow controlling which Vendor they can be
launched into and what VM sizes are selectable by users.
• AppStack Launch Approval
– All provisioning requests go through an admin approval
• Department Catalog
– Define which AppStack templates can be launched by each
department
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Governance

22. Policies
The policy framework helps businesses create policies to optimize the use of cloud resources.
• Default Policies
– Provides out-of-box governance rules that immediately helps you control cloud costs.
• Cloud Usage Alerts:
– Tracks cloud usage and cost information and alerts administrators when the total usage for the account is greater than a certain value.
– Tracks cloud usage and cost information and alerts administrators when the total usage for a vendor specific product is greater than a
certain value.
• Prevent excess usage:
– Allows scheduling of operational hours to automatically shutdown & start virtual machines.
– Alerts administrators on volumes that have been disassociated from Virtual machines (standalone VMs) for more than a set number of days.
– Optional rule to automatically delete volumes that have been disassociated from virtual machines (standalone VMs) for more than a set
number of days.
• Logging:
– Provides a Policy Execution Log that reports status of each policies executed with details of all the actions executed.
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23. Default Policies
8 default policies
help you manage
your resources
better.
6 of them notify you
everyday of AWS &
Azure usage.

24. Custom Policies
Create your own
custom policies.

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Budgeting
Define your own
Budget codes and
allocate amounts

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Budgeting
Free to define
budget by any unit
that matches your
organization’s
budgeting practises.

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Budgeting
Budget codes need
to be selected while
launching AppStacks

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Budgeting
Budget codes are
asked for launching
AppStacks

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Define Custom Templates
Define your own
Stack Templates
that your users will
launch

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Define Custom Templates
Define your
own Stack
Templates that
your users will
launch

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Define Custom Templates
Define your
own Stack
Templates that
your users will
launch

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Define Custom Templates
Define custom
launch options
restricting
regions and
sizes that users
are allowed to
select

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AppStack Launch Approvals
Requests for all
Launches go
through an
administrator
approval

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AppStack Launch Approvals
Requests for all
Launches go
through an
administrator
approval

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AppStack Launch Approvals
Requests for all
Launches go
through an
administrator
approval

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Department Catalog
Configure
Department
specific catalog

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Department Catalog
Configure
Department
specific catalog

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Department Catalog
Configure
Department
specific catalog

39. CENTRALIZED
CLOUD MANAGEMENT
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Catalog with multi-vendor VMs
Users get a catalog
of Application
Stacks and VM
templates that can
be launched into
multiple vendors.

41. Detailed Description to facilitate decision making
Descriptions for the
stack are available
for users to
understand what it
provides before
they launch it.

42. Launch VMs or Application Stacks
Consistent
experience for all
stack templates.
Users select launch
options like VM size,
Region and network
related options.

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Tag your resources when launching a Stack
Tag the resources
that are being
launched with
information that
you can use for
reporting

44. Life Cycle Management
The solution supports end-to-end life cycle management of various cloud resources. It supports automated
provisioning and configuration of virtual machines, workload stacks, block storage, and network interfaces.
 Consistent user experience when launching and managing resources irrespective of cloud vendor.
 Orchestration of cloud infrastructure services.
 Attach/Detach/Edit cloud resources and properties
 Termination of cloud resources.
 Notification on successful provisioning, as well as errors during provisioning.
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Lifecycle Actions for a VM
VMs deployed
in different
vendor
platforms
managed from
the same page.

46. Block Volumes
• Provision additional volumes to VMs
• Mount/Unmount from within IaaS Console
• Manage volumes from console
• All volumes actions - RBAC controlled
• More types: high performance, Provisioned IOPS

47. Attach new volume
Attach Additional
Volumes to VMs

48. Attach new volume
Attach Existing
Volumes to VMs

49. Network Interfaces
• Add additional NICs
• Associate to Private Virtual Networks of your account
• Obtain & associate Static Public IP addresses

50. Network Interfaces
Manage all NICs of a
VM from one tab

51. Network Interfaces
Custom config
additional Network
Interfaces

52. Volume Snapshots
Create
Snapshots of
volumes

53. VM Images
Create
Snapshots of
volumes

54. Import IaaS Resources
Import
resources from
your account
to the portal
to centrally
manage them

55. Import IaaS Resources
Imported
Resources are
easily
identifiable

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Multi-cloud Support
The following Public Cloud vendors are supported:
• Amazon Web Services – analytics & life-cycle management
• Microsoft Azure (CSP) – analytics & life-cycle management
• Microsoft Azure (Pay As You Go) – analytics & life-cycle management
• Microsoft Azure (EA) – analytics
• Google Cloud – analytics
• IBM Bluemix (SoftLayer) – analytics

57. Thank you…
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Jamcracker, Inc.
Address: 4677 Old Ironsides Drive, Santa Clara, CA, USA 95054
Phone: +1 (408) 496-5500
Email: information@jamcracker.com