With 60 percent of enterprise workload projected to be on the hybrid cloud in the next 5-7 years, IT major Infosys recently launched the Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub, a solution that enables enterprises to manage their constantly evolving cloud ecosystem. With the Hub, businesses can accelerate time-to-market of cloud services by up to 40 percent, improve productivity by up to 20 percent and achieve cost-savings of up to 30 percent, Infosys said in a statement. 

“The solution is built taking an enterprise-centric view in managing an evolving cloud environment. It is important for enterprises to manage their fragmented IT setup,” Vishnu Bhat, Vice-President and Global Head - Cloud, Infosys told InformationWeek. “The Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub provides organizations a unified gateway to build, manage and govern their hybrid cloud ecosystem. This solution allows clients to fully realize the benefits from the long-standing promise of the cloud.”

The Hub offers CIOs the ability to compare over 20 parameters such as quality of service and regulatory compliance through a dashboard that allows organizations to select and compare cloud services across multiple providers, similar to a price comparison site.

The Hub is a modularised solution split into seven modules. The unified self-service catalog feature enables enterprises to quickly subscribe to relevant IT and business services across multiple environments. The solution can dynamically provision IT infrastructure and platforms on a hybrid cloud environment in minutes.

The smart brokerage feature of the Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub provides an enterprise-wide decision support mechanism to select, compare and deploy cloud services from across providers. Decisions can be based on evaluation of over 20 parameters such as quality of service, technology compatibility, regulatory compliance needs and total cost of ownership of application workloads.

The Hub provides a single-window view of the enterprise cloud ecosystem and brings cohesion into an otherwise fragmented IT environment – across private and public cloud with on-premise IT. The solution enables easy monitoring of cloud resource usage and optimizes utilization. It provides consolidated metering and billing thereby enabling service charge-backs.

Infosys which built a dedicated unit for cloud services about 18 months ago, today has over 3,000 cloud specialists, more than 150 cloud engagements and an ecosystem of over 30 partners around the world.