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Updates Jam: Security. Administration. Web UI.

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We continue to enhance our Maestro solution. With this blog post, we would like to cover the improvements int the security of the application, Administration functionality and Maestro UI. Security Security updates covered a wide range of changes. Our major improvements are the following: Permissions mechanism was restructured to provide clear and effective permission management. It now consists of three levels of entities: Role, Permission Group, and Action . Each User Role includes Permission Groups, each Permission Group includes Actions, each Action corresponds to some action that the user can perform in Maestro.    Permissions can be assigned on different levels , such as Customer, Tenant, Project, and User. For each user, the highest-priority setting is applied, which is suitable for every individual situation. For example, Project Role settings will overlap Tenant Role settings. User email settings, if any, will override settings of any other level. ...

Updates Jam: Mobile UI - Convenient and Secure

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Maestro native mobile version has been constantly improved, allowing our users to perform all necessary cloud-related manipulations and manage their virtual infrastructures by only a few clicks, with necessary data being always at hand. Our latest improvements in Maestro Mobile Application are the following: The  Auto-scroll function is implemented  in the Content View section for better visibility of information displayed on a screen. We broadened our Metrics functionality for the mobile application by  adding the Remaining Balance metrics , to keep our users informed about the remaining quota amount Nessus security service   is now  implemented  in Maestro Security Guard to help identify vulnerabilities on your selected projects depending on policies. Nessus security service works on public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).   We implemented the  Console wizard  for users to be ab...

Updates Jam: Web UI

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We continue to polish our Maestro solution to ensure the quality of our services and meet our users' expectations. Below you can see the improvements implemented in Maestro Web Application: Maestro Reporting functionality has been enlarged due to implementation of analytic and cost optimization reports: Monthly Analytic Optimization report - sent at the end of each month and provides analytics as well as recommendations on project cost optimization. Low Instance Utilization report - informs about instances with low utilization parameters and contains recommendations on instance usage optimization. Cloud Radar report - illustrates the activity of the cloud infrastructure for a given period of time, and contains general cloud utilization statistics and cloud chargeback trend diagram. Maestro Security section includes now the Nessus security scan , providing the possibility to identify vulnerabilities on your selected projects depending on policies. Nessus security...

Maestro Monitoring

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Maestro provides powerful functionality that allows gathering, processing and delivering to users the information on infrastructure performance and cost. In such a way our application ensures good analytics for both developers and responsible managers. Statistics are provided on two levels - Instance level and Tenant level. For Project managers  it is important to obtain detailed information on the Tenant level, such as: cloud statistics for all projects to which the project manager is assigned statistics by a single project and region chargeback (project expenditures) remaining balance for the specified project  For Developers it is vital to get more specific information on virtual infrastructure capacities, available on the Instance level: cloud statistics for all projects, as well as for a single project and region  statistics by performance monitoring of a single VM (CPU utilization, network traffic, etc.). By default monitoring metrics a...

Maestro Deployment Models

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Maestro is a solution that allows to manage, control and monitor virtual infrastructures across public and private clouds. It is presented in three deployment options, granting the business demands of any customer: The Standard Deployment model is based on the Software as a Service approach, where the customer is registered under Maestro and is provided with the following facilities: A single entry point to the unified and simply organized reporting for all customer’s resources across all public clouds they use. A set of analytics tools for all virtual resources under the customer’s account. This includes analytics on VM and tenant levels. A quotas management tool, that allows to set up the monthly expense limits for virtual infrastructures and the scenarios for different stages of quotas depletion. Alerts and notifications that will inform the customer on the significant events on their resources. The Professional Deployment model is based on the Software as a Ser...

Maestro: Balancing Business Values

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When it comes to orchestration of any business and technical sides of a project, Maestro provides all necessary features for the effective management in Cloud. First, the abovementioned features are available both as a single solution or separately . Moreover, you can customize them as you need, and complement with new features by adding new code. Each component can be used as a standalone unit, deploying a fully functional environment within minutes. There is also a native application for iOs and Android platforms covering about 80 per cents of functionality. Second, you can work with many tenants in different regions and clouds , as Maestro provides you with a single entry-point for Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS and OpenStack-based regions. Need a tenant for each of your teams? With Maestro, get as many tenants as necessary. Each virtual infrastructure is assigned and billed to a specific tenant.   Besides, a unified approach ensures for you a management a...

Updates Jam: Web UI. New Login Page. Demo env. Azure metrics.

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We ‘ve been continuously improving Maestro performance in order to meet our users’ growing needs, as well as going up with the tides of the constantly developing virtual infrastructure solutions. Below you can see the improvements implemented in Maestro Web Application: The Maestro login page was redesigned and is now a visual treat, providing our users with various information about us and our framework, as well as giving the possibility to request a Demo or contact the Support team directly via the respective form.  Maestro is now providing a constant environment for the Demo version of our tool to showcase its new features and capabilities. Upon filling out the Request for demo form our support team will send you temporary credentials for trying out the main functionality of our framework yourself. Alternatively - our specialists will contact you upon request and demonstrate all the advantages of our tool via the Skype call.  Maestro is now supporting memory...