Helen Abbott

Embotics Website • 25th September 2019

Cloud Manager Guide - Taking Control of Public Cloud Consumption

Getting control of public cloud consumption can be like wrestling a ghost: it’s hard to pin down something nebulous. But if you’re in charge of reducing costs without hampering innovation, you’ve got to pin this ghost down. To wrestle public cloud consumption into submission, you need visibility, standardization and cost reduction. This eBook will take a look at the tools a CMP gives you for gaining visibility, implementing standards and reducing costs, while making your team more efficient and productive.

Embotics Blog • 7th October 2016

Puppet Plus Embotics vCommander Equals Faster ITaaS

If you use Puppet Labs® Puppet to deliver ITaaS, you can seamlessly integrate Puppet with Embotics vCommander to provision and manage Puppet nodes. With the vCommander Cloud Management Platform (CMP), you can predefine your Puppet node configuration right in the service catalog. Requested VMs can be automatically deployed and configured as Puppet nodes. You can also set up automatic VM decommissioning driven by expiry date or a change request process, including removal of the node configuration from the Puppet master.

Embotics Blog • 1st February 2016

Fulfilling VM Change Requests in a Maintenance Window with vCommander™

Maintenance windows make it easy for vCommander administrators to automatically fulfill VM change requests requiring a power-down at expected times. Introduced in the recent vCommander 5.6 release, maintenance windows allow you to remove the burden from the administrator while still avoiding any impact on your customers’ use of their VMs.

Embotics Blog • 22nd December 2015

Integrate Chef with Embotics vCommander to Provision and Manage Chef nodes

If you use Chef as your IT automation platform, you can seamlessly integrate Chef with Embotics vCommander to provision and manage Chef nodes. With vCommander, you can predefine your Chef node configuration right in the service catalog. Requested VMs can be automatically deployed and configured as Chef nodes.

Embotics Blog • 23rd September 2015

FedEx Days at Embotics® — Encouraging Innovation

Once a year, every member of the Embotics engineering team got to pick a project to work on for a few days and then present it to the team. We called these days FedEx Days. The concept of a FedEx day was started by Atlassian as an experiment to foster innovation. The name comes from the 1980’s FedEx slogan: “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.”

Embotics Blog • 11th September 2015

Inventive ways to use Embotics® vCommander™

Embotics vCommander is so easy to use that our development team has come up with some inventive ways to use it. For instance, did you know that you can use vCommander to manage your daily schedule? vCommander’s command workflows make it easy.

Embotics Blog • 20th August 2015

Enabling Your Users to Rightsize Their VMs

How do you ensure that all VMs in your virtualized infrastructure are allocated the correct resources for their workload? Allowing your users to rightsize their VMs is a great way to minimize cost and maximize performance.

Embotics Blog • 10th June 2015

Embotics® vCommander™ Documentation on the Web

After much hard work, the Embotics vCommander user documentation is available on the web at http://docs.embotics.com. We’ve put all of our docs together, so you can easily search the whole suite.

Embotics Blog • 15th March 2015

What’s new in vCommander 5.2?

This release introduces support for managing a Microsoft® Azure subscription with vCommander. With vCommander, you can integrate your Microsoft Azure public cloud environment with your private cloud infrastructure. vCommander allows you to create and manage workloads on the virtualization and cloud platform that is best for that workload, using criteria such as price, availability and technology.