CiRBA Debuts API to Optimize Cloud Workplace Placement

CiRBA is aiming to tie various cloud management platforms, including OpenStack, into its capacity transformation and control software with the release of a new API. The company noted in its announcement the new API enables organizations to connect the cloud management platforms they use with CiRBA with the end goal of optimizing new workload placements within internal clouds.

CiRBA specializes in providing analytics to determine the optimal placement of virtual machines within cloud infrastructure at the environment and server levels. According to the vendor, it reduces the risk of capacity shortfalls and driving up VM density by an average of 48 percent.

With the new API, organizations will have access to CiRBA’s booking functionality to allow users to reserve capacity for their future needs using existing self-service portals. The company also noted that organizations are turning to cloud management platforms such as OpenStack when building internal clouds, but one of the challenges they face is bringing together all of the required capabilities. Although cloud management platforms provision VMs, CiRBA noted they don’t have the ability to analyze capacity to determine the best environment in which to host a workload or the best host within an environment to start an instance on.

That’s where CiRBA comes in. The new workload routing API gives cloud management platforms the ability to send placement requests to CiRBA and receive an answer providing the best possible environment and host-level placement for a new workload.

“For self-service requests, there is a dire need for more intelligence in determining where these workloads go, and how much resources must be assigned to them,” said Andrew Hillier, CiRBA’s CTO and co-founder, in a prepared statement. “As internal cloud implementations scale and there are multiple environments, SLA levels or internal customers, it becomes unworkable to continue to place workloads based on simplistic or random algorithms.”

The new API is slated to be available June 14.