Current Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research -- Demystifying Cloud -- has shown the tremendous traction gained by IBM's pre-integrated infrastructure as a foundation for private and hybrid cloud deployments. This traction is partially due to the fact that one third of cloud deployment projects runs over budget or significantly exceeds the anticipated implementation timetable. A recent EMA impact brief on the launch of SmartCloud Orchestrator and the importance of OpenStack, TOSCA  and OSLC  examines IBM's vision of offering customers the ability to freely place complex application workloads in the private or public cloud. PureApplication System "understands" the characteristics and requirements of these workloads and is able to automatically configure its servers, network components, and storage infrastructure to ensure optimal service performance, security and scalability.

Founded in 2011 with the clear vision of consolidating and simplifying IT operations management through a big data analytics driven collective intelligence approach, CloudPhysics launched its operations management service on August 13, 2013. At the same time, the company announced that it has closed a Series B funding of $10 million led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. 

In this Impact Brief, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) will examine if the SaaS-based CloudPhysics operations management solution has the potential to be a true game changer.