Issue link: http://hub-fr.insight.com/i/532074
51 Stage 2: Application and middleware delivery automation Automating how middleware and apps are provisioned can further accelerate virtualized operations, especially as some services move to the cloud. ✓ Required capabilities: Automated middleware and apps provisioning. Policy-based network and storage services. Service costing. ✓ Business outcomes: Improved agility. Less time to provision and deploy complex applications. Easy to increase capacity on demand – extend workloads to the hybrid cloud as needed. Stage 3: Heterogeneous and hybrid cloud Fully optimized environments transparently support any workloads across a combination of hypervisors and hard- ware in private and hybrid clouds. ✓ Required capabilities: Application release automa- tion. XaaS. Provisioning and migration of workloads for multi-hardware and multi-hypervisor across pri- vate and hybrid clouds including vCloud Air™, AWS, and those based on OpenStack. ✓ Business outcomes: Less IT time and cost to provision fully loaded VMs. Lower CapEx thanks to optimized, consolidated storage and networking infrastructure.