AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the world's largest cloud provider and it is continuing to grow each year.

The AWS ‘Cloud Provider’ plugin provides native cloud services to Buttonwood Cloud Broker. It delivers the compute, network and common services (such as load balancing), as well as AWS specific services such as RDS (in a variety of options, including Postgres, SQL Server and Oracle).

EMC NetWorker (formerly Legato NetWorker) is a suite of enterprise level data protection software that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

Within Buttonwood Cloud Broker, the network plugin supplies a ‘Protection Group’ policy type that can be applied to specific environments. When a workload is deployed in an environment with the Networker ‘Protection Group’ policy, the Broker communicates with the Networker server and registers each compute instance as a backup source. Because the Networker server is typically on the enterprise, this plugin is effective when workloads are deployed within a VPN that allows network visibility between the cloud instance and the Networker service.

Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool which is designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems.

Within Buttonwood Cloud Broker the Puppet plugin allows selected Puppet classes to be dropped onto compute instances on the Buttonwood Composer. Puppet classes, in conjunction with an agent installed by the Broker on the cloud instance, communicates with a Puppet ‘Master’ server. This ensures that the instance will eventually reach a known configuration state. This can be used to install and configure software, such as operating system services and applications. In some cases Puppet classes can be used to install a full stack applications in cloud.

Commvault software assists organizations with data backup and recovery, cloud and infrastructure management, and retention and compliance.

Within Buttonwood Cloud Broker, the CommVault plugin tags workloads via policy, and will detect and backup tagged instances, volumes and services (including RDS databases).

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Microsoft Azure is cloud computing platform and infrastructure which is becoming increasingly popular with enterprises. Using the same approach as AWS, you can enter your account details into Buttonwood Cloud Broker to analyse all of your cloud instances through the one reporting platform. The ‘Cloud Provider’ plugin will allow blueprints to be deployed to Microsoft’s cloud platform.

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ScienceLogic is a monitoring and reporting tool that can watch many different types of environment, including on premise infrastructure and cloud compute/services.

Within Buttonwood Cloud Broker, the ScienceLogic plugin provides a mechanism to register each deployment as something that needs to be monitored by ScienceLogic. This is called tagging. Tagging each instance/service in the workload will allow a correctly configured ScienceLogic installation to correctly classify each instance as to whether it should be monitored or not. ScienceLogic can be configured to raise alerts and integrates with ServiceNow.

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ServiceNow looks to solve enterprise‑level challenges, improving workflow and task management.

Within Buttonwood Cloud Broker, the ServiceNow plugin will allow the Broker to inform ServiceNode about deployments, whether they are successful or not, and will allow ServiceNow to act as a catalogue of Broker services.

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VMware offers a cloud computing platform and infrastructure. Using the same approach as AWS, you can enter your account details into Buttonwood Cloud Broker to analyse all of your cloud instances through the one reporting platform
Within Buttonwood Cloud Broker, the VMware plugin will act as a ‘Cloud Provider’ plugin, allowing blueprints to be deployed into on premise VMware infrastructure. It will also add additional Broker capability regarding the management of virtual infrastructure on the enterprise side.

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Zert0 provides disaster recovery software for virtualized infrastructure and the cloud.
Within Buttonwood Cloud Broker, the Zert0 plugin will provide a ‘Protection Group’ policy type that will cause workloads that are deployed within selected environments to be constantly replicated by Zert0. In a disaster scenario they can be ‘failed over’ to the DR site with a minimum of delay.