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Unisys Strengthens Multi-Cloud Advisory Services, Offers Comprehensive Strategies

Unisys Strengthens Multi-Cloud Advisory Services, Offers Comprehensive Migration and Management Strategies with Enhanced CloudForte® Capabilities

New capabilities help organisations plan and implement smart, efficient and secure infrastructure migration, application modernisation and cloud management strategies

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced it has enhanced CloudForte®—its integrated, multi-cloud and application optimisation platform. The new CloudForte capabilities help organisations easily accelerate their move to multi- and hybrid-cloud environments and provide an optimised way to continually assess overall cloud environments including cost, security, and performance. Enhanced offerings include CloudForte Navigator® 2.0, CloudForte Cloud Management Platform 2.0 and CloudForte Accelerators 1.0.

CloudForte Navigator 2.0 provides clients at any stage of cloud implementation with a well-architected framework to modernise legacy infrastructure and applications for maximum value. Enhancements in Navigator 2.0 include:

  • Hybrid and multi-cloud management that features continuous assessments with remediation guidance on the best architecture and recommendations for migrating to the cloud and transforming applications.
  • Infrastructure and application modernisation guidance for updating legacy software to modern business needs; and
  • Review of Kubernetes security against best practices to ensure secure cloud deployment, management and auto-scaling.
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“CloudForte Navigator helps organisations optimise their overall enterprise cost, security and performance,” said Vishal Gupta, senior vice president, Products and Platforms and Chief Technology Officer, Unisys. “Unisys offers a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic multi- and hybrid-cloud review to streamline their cloud assessment process and understand exactly where they can make informed infrastructure decisions as well as easily improve cloud security and application-migration processes.”

The enhanced CloudForte Cloud Management Platform 2.0 brings together a Unisys-built capability and multiple partner products for hybrid cloud management. Unisys has added Morpheus Data, a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant, as a partner to enhance our Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capabilities.

“With Unisys and Morpheus working together, clients have the best of all worlds. They benefit from an agile next-generation cloud management platform combined with the advisory service and support of a world-class solution provider,” said Brad Parks, Chief Marketing Officer of Morpheus.

The enhanced CloudForte CMP integrates disparate technologies to create an agile, secure, and efficient environment in three key areas:

  • Automation and orchestration to allow faster customer innovation, including a unified user interface for management, governance, provisioning, and reporting on the client’s end-to-end hybrid and multi-cloud operations.
  • A validated reference architecture to ensure business optimisation, providing a ready to use blueprint library, monitoring, security and identity management, among other features.
  • Advanced analytics to optimise cloud spend, synchronising visibility of discovered and provisioned resources and constantly monitoring resource cost and utilisation.

CloudForte Accelerators 1.0 provides a well-architected, compliant templating system to accelerate Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure cloud infrastructure with the following capabilities:

  • Deploying Azure Landing Zones with security and best practices;
  • Automating deployment of repeatable AWS CloudFormation templates; and
  • Demonstrating use cases with refined documentation and guidance.

To learn more about CloudForte, visit www.unisys.com/CloudForte.

About Unisys

Unisys is a global information technology company that builds high-performance, security-centric solutions for the most demanding businesses and governments. Unisys offerings include security software and services; digital transformation and workplace services; industry applications and services; and innovative software operating environments for high-intensity enterprise computing. For more information on how Unisys builds better outcomes securely for its clients across the government, financial services and commercial markets, visit www.unisys.co.nz.

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