Snow Commander
Automate hybrid cloud management
Snow Commander is a powerful hybrid cloud management tool that leverages automation to deliver business agility, oversight and efficiency. This tool enables you to eliminate cumbersome, manual approval processes and provide your end users with a quick, self-service way to access both public and private clouds that won’t slow down even the most agile development teams.
RELATED SOLUTIONS
Fully automated cloud service delivery
Fully automated cloud service delivery
Increase agility and efficiency with streamlined hybrid cloud management.
Eliminate the manual processes that slow you down. With Snow Commander, your team can work smarter and faster to deliver the infrastructure, applications and services that power your business. Complete time-consuming requests in minutes — not days — to reduce friction and accelerate innovation.
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Multi-cloud visibility
Multi-cloud visibility
Snow Commander uses agentless discovery to give you visibility into all resources across your hybrid cloud environment, including cloud platforms, applications and even usage by business units. This new perspective enables you to reduce costs and maximize performance by allocating the correct resources for each workload across your organization. The platform also helps to efficiently tag resources so you can understand who owns each resource and what workloads are running on it.
Cloud lifecycle management
Cloud lifecycle management
Snow Commander’s robust policy engine automates lifecycle management, ensuring that resources are decommissioned within set time limits to reduce sprawl and minimize infrastructure costs. Easily target specific areas of cloud consumption used by R&D teams for short-term use, such as accounts, regions or VCPs. Flexible notification and expiry extension options ensure that users are well-informed and can keep VMs and application workloads active for as long as needed without introducing sprawl.
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The Flexera difference
Fully automated cloud service delivery
Eliminate the manual processes that slow you down. With Snow Commander, your team can work smarter and faster to deliver the infrastructure, applications and services that power your business. Complete time-consuming requests in minutes—not days—to reduce friction and accelerate innovation.
How it Works
Automated easy access for multi-cloud
Snow Commander uses automation to provide your end users with quick and easy access to both public and private cloud resources. The comprehensive self-service portal provides you with the visibility needed to effectively govern resource usage, while self-service provisioning automation capabilities ensure that even the most agile development teams don’t miss a beat.
Snow Commander can be implemented with little to no additional burden on your existing IT team. The easy-to-use configuration wizard allows for simple customizations and set up, and integrates with your existing tech stack.
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Flexera integrates with your top technology vendors
See All IntegrationsHaving fewer manual intervention steps to deploy and decommission virtual machines, along with the simplicity of the interface itself, is what makes Snow Commander stand out from the competition. And when we do need to contact support, we get a reply in a very short amount of time telling us what our expectations are for that case. I’m super-impressed with the support we get.
NIGGIE ANWAR SENIOR STORAGE AND VIRTUALIZATION SPECIALIST, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Frequently asked questions
Snow Commander exposes a REST API that other applications can consume. We have many customers driving Snow Commander from, for example, ServiceNow. This allows organizations to build out requests with all matching data within ServiceNow along with ServiceNow approval processes before triggering deployments through Snow Commander. We can also have change requests and other actions executed through Rest API.
Yes, Snow Commander integrates seamlessly with your public and private cloud infrastructure, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Microsoft® Azure, Microsoft® Hyper-V SCVMM, and VMware vSphere. The real-time platform is designed to be public cloud—and hypervisor-independent—and can provide a complete overview of infrastructure across all business units, companies, public cloud vendors, and private cloud data centers.
Snow Commander supports an unlimited number of connections ("accounts"/"tenants"/"vcenters", etc.) for each vendor, making it easy to get a complete overview of all instances of Azure, AWS, GCP, VMware, etc., across the entire landscape.
Yes, single sign-on (SSO) allows Snow Commander Administrators and Self-Service Portal users to authenticate once before accessing multiple service provider resources.
Snow Commander uses the SAML 2.0 Web Browser SSO profile to provide single sign-on.
Snow Commander can discover and manage your existing public and private cloud virtual machines without needing an agent. This means you can monitor VM performance, set up alerts and notifications and execute scripts against your infrastructure. Learn more in the Snow Commander documentation.
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