Total OpenStack Monetization Solutions

There are many reasons that makes Uniview unique.

Industry Ultimate and most Comprehensive Solution for OpenStack Billing and User Dashboards

Among solutions that attempted to solve the common known issues of OpenStack that Open-Source community isn't capable, people often find Uniview is more in-depth, sustainable and comprehensive due to its dedication and relentless iteration efforts over years. One of those is a truly modern stack of UI. Uniview has every icon, button and layout aligned with morden console expectations. Uniview is comprehensive that implements other critical factors for a business to succeed, such as superb user experience, powerful metering/billing/payment solution, ultimate security and identify management for a cloud with SSO Federation, enterprise client self-service IAM(Identifity and Acess Management), Ticketing and customer engagement system etc.

Sustainable

Uniview is sustainable to business due to a few facts. First of all it can get started easily with small footprint and initial features, and as well our business model can ensure a get-started price for a business to start at no burden. When the business grows, more features you can add naturally, and the total solution can scale up with more complexity. Uniview might be the most compelling enablers that help a cloud provider to become a regional leading cloud with substantial differentiators and strong branding.

Uniview is found TCO(Total Cost of Ownership) low to compare with other solutions. Reasons for that include such as the sound architecture, and organic integration with OpenStack only. Uniview is self-contained in docker that can run in standalone Linux host or Kubenetes, and it can be scaled up by simply adding more instances to the pool with simple load balancing. Uniview has complexity under the water and it can work or accomodate with your existing infra as such, or with only some configuration files to change. Small team is often capable enough to run a large cloud over Uniview. Uniview is often found having organic and practical integration with OpenStack by avoiding disparate or overflowing requirements. All those lead to lean integration that is sustainable to a business.

Specialized and Dedicated to Be Perfect

We understand the best solution requires dedication, persistence and specialization. Thousands iterations, efforts of many years, many times of rewriting are the only way from being imperfect to be perfect, especially for such a complex engineering. That's how Uniview has gone through.

Our team is development specialized. Working with partners and having parters successful is our only reason to exist. This is fundementally different from some other solution providers when they tend to promote their codes originated in their own startup cloud or a specific use case. Being driven by a single use case might get things functional, but never comprehensive and nor compelling enough. OpenStack as Infrastructure has thousands of variations. Uniview development team are motivated enough to pursue the best on all aspects. Working with various partners makes us the most knowledgeable too to know this market.

Many Poineering and Leading Features You Can Find Only in Uniview

There are many features of Uniview that lead the industry or pioneered the initiatives. Some example such as:

Uniview is the first ever in the industry that implemented comprehensive enterprise oriented IAM for a public cloud or private cloud that unleashes the accessibility of OpenStack clouds. OpenStack used to be complicated to have an organization tenant to manage their users, groups, permissions, to do so, commonly through either reaching out to super admin to add users or other in-secure way that creates huge labor overhead. More or less, this hindered OpenStack infrastructures being usable to shared organizations. With Uniview ORGANIZATION, a public cloud or private cloud can easily achieve multiple large enterprise tenancy in a secure way. With the shareability unleashed that fits to large organization well, a cloud is expected to have a potential to grow its user base over the night exponantially. Uniview provides full process, console, billing aggregation, best practices, security measures in place to lead this into a secure and operable business. And Uniview is the first and is known one of very few solutions that are out-of-box, comprehensive, and accessible to a cloud provider.

Uniview is known providing the most comprehensive metrics solution that makes OpenStack observable and DevSecOps ready. Commonly openstack infrastructure have very bad user experience or little observability, or fragmented data integration. Whereas Uniview changed the story. With it the infrastructure can be observed in horizontally comparable, or vertically historic way, network, storage and CPU all metrics that matter to DevSecOps can be displayed by a couple clicks.

Uniview is known a solution only after GCP that can provide dual stacks dashboard display between OpenStack and Kubernetes. Uniview implements most of Kubernetes API too over full OpenStack API underneath. The feature is found helpful for daily operation of Kubernetes cluster with convinience of one click to view/edit object of Kubernetes itself and coordinated views with data pulled from dual stacks.

Uniview superb object store console and dashboard are another top feature that a cloud provider doesn't want to miss. With Uniview console, operating on an object, uploading many objects at a time, downloading, editing and sharing object are all a fun and reliable. The console significantly improve a user's productivity in a reliable way. To some degree, Uniview object console is only solution that is close to AWS' level today.

Full billing solution with end2end process support. Uniview is self-contained solution from metering that talks directly with your RabbitMq for collecting all billable events, Pricing planning that a cloud provider can define price at ease and develop price plan per project/organization customer, Rating that is fully automated to have raw bill generated, then paymant and invoicing that integrate popular payment gateway and invoice PDF customization. It's worth to mention that Uniview can adapt to CloudKitty Rating/Pricing too, if a customer already works with that.

There are many overall and dedicated dashboards, wizards etc help administrors or cloud end users. A cloud with Uniview is often considered having excellent observability.

As from open source community, OpenStack is considered technology ready, unfortunately not Enterprise ready yet. But this is fully expected! There are many areas that Open Source community is not suitable to and will not implement, hence last mile engineering is needed to meet complex business needs. Horizon is great for developers when it serves each components in a flat way without cohesiveness. Skyline emerged to replace, but when facing too many business variations when they are not technical, to develop enterprise ready portal is controversial and open source community would not be the choice.

Uniview has come into being to fill such open source gaps! There are multiple detailed aspects that Univew helps! The first vision of Uniview is User Experiences by Unifying, i.e. One entry and No hopping! Uniview is comprehensive and inclusive to combine most desired features and functionalities into one platform. For most deployments, an OpenStack user often needs Horizon to manage a VM, Grafana to look into a metric, Datadog to manage and monitor bare metal infrastruture. The second improvements in Uniview is to provide profound presentation of metric data, where OpenStack upstream has been very struggling at. With no substantial layer of metrics, a user wouldnot have best confidence on the workload deployed in OpenStack.

Besides those there are desireable securiy utilities and SSO integrations. For example MFA setup over Horizon can be a daunting journey, and an encryption process will be intimidating process, whereas over Uniview to have MFA or encryption enabled can be just simply a click away to have everything out of box. There many other industry desireable features, such as sophisicated wizards, innovative integration such as Kubernetes and Ceph dashbords, which have user experience elevated. For the subject of Single Sign On integration with existing enterprise identify databases, Uniview SSO landing portal turns the process just like a breeze that access directory, CLI compatibility of SSO users all are well facilitated by a few clicks. So Uniview will leave the major gaps and shortcomings behind to deliver an experiences to catch up proprietary software quality as mega clouds of such as AWS and Azure.

Missioned to Tackle the Key Issue of OpenStack Clouds: User Experiences

OpenStack is great but has major shortcoming, i.e. the user experience. Uniview rewrites OpenStack user interaction processes as per what a modern cloud is expected to be, regardless what backbends and their tech, enriched with many visual graphic views and dashboards; drag and drop, full tuned transparency of each process, and many wizards

OpenStack up and run has been fairly easy over last a few years industry efforts. However from up and run, toward a high end cloud such as AWS/Azure, a cloud over open source can be anywhere with different strategies of integration. Uniview is missioned to provide industry most organic integration suite to help open source clouds to match user experience expectation, which has been set high by leading public clouds. Immersive user experience, enriched comprehensive service offerings by one pane, everything just one click away, and a seamless user interface are imperative. That is what Uniview portal integration is laid out to help.

Uniview Portal is designed to perfectly tackle the challenges of integration by providing a way of branding your business, controlling how you want your infrastructure to be consumed, and one pane of glass of possibly numerous backend integrations, or just simply skipping many of those. Uniview also integrates Kubernetes dashboard provides users the best observability of 360 degree of clusters, nodes, pods, containers, configurations and services.

Security, IAM and SSO to Meet Common Enterprise Needs

Uniview recently introduce ORGANIZATION, where cloud service provider can securely delegate IAM management to tenant manager, normally of a big organization, to create/edit user projects and enforce their own security policies. Various utilities by Uniview ensure the process is fully self-service and secure. This considerably largely unleashes the shareability of an infra to promote its adoption by large enterprises.

Uniview provides seamless user federation through popular KeyStone+KeyCloak integration. A landing portal is provided for SSO users to be redirected to access projects, get token utilities or manage SSO permission. The integration with existing enterprise identity management is out of box ready with just configurations to add on.

In adition, Univew Cloud Portal implements various security features out of box, such as utility of MFA, utility of disposable user credential, full encryption, security challenge questions etc., so your customers can stay safe.

Boost with Full Metric Views that Fill in Operation Needs

One key value of Uniview is its organic offering of many intelligent metrics views that upstream communinity solution can't handle well. Often Grafana steps in, but is perceived fragmented without cohesivness and consistency The metrics are data driven, hence is volatile and dynamic. Uniview has those implemented with out of box recipes of data handling to form into various most frequently used graphic views. For generic data Ceilometer collects other than regular patterns, Uniview is implemented with best efforts to understand and compose its displays to help users to understand and monitor their workloads. Thin implementation gets rid of all lengthy requirements of such as Grafana etc of the 3rd party systems. Tenancy compute CPU, Ram, Disk and Network monitoring are just one click away.

Handy Integrated OpenStack Monitoring for Enterprise Clouds

Uniview Cloud Portal is seamlessly integrated with cloud monitoring to provide one-stop experience, as the only solution in the industry to provide such an experience. With Uniview all layers of your OpenStack infrastructure can be monitored from bare-metal hosts, openstack service health states of Neutron, Nova anbd Cinder, vulnerable componenents such as RabbitMq, controller Mysql/MariaDb database, Ceph cluster, etc. The alarming of Uniview monitoring can be integrated with modern webhook such as Slack, Pagerduty, Email etc to provide On-call or notification supports.

OpenStack is a strong underlying for public clouds, but often costly engineering is required to be business viable. Uniview provides all that a public cloud needs by a single package with no need of budget on your own development or efforts of complex integrations which ofen lead to high operation cost. With Uniview, user recruitment/ registration, credit card validation, bill and invoice generation/query, automated payment through integrated popular payment Gateway, plus an AWS comparable console are out of box, so that within 30 minutes of setup, bare metal to cash flow is possible.

The easy utilities specifically provided for public cloud users includes out of box user onboarding process, console based bill generation, admin interactive payment console and ticketing systems. A single click by admin will consistently generate bill at the end of each billing cycle with dry-run and prod run modes. The interactive admin initiated payment process provide best auditability and traceability. The white-labeling feature of Uniview enables a possibility to have your public cloud ready with just configurations!

Billing is the business cornerstone. To compare with other OpenStack billing solutions, Uniview has many advantages. Uniview supports end2end solution as far as billing is concerned from event collection, mediation to invoice/payment. Uniview seamlessly supports the upstream community metering and rating solution, in the meanwhile, it comes with Uniview Collector and Rating that can self-sufficiently have full billing solution ready in no time. Uniview supports the most popular payment model, i.e. post-pay with credit card validation, as how most of modern public clouds conducts, and it can support prepaid or credit based billing model with integration of WHMCS etc with certain customizations. Overall Uniview delivers pleasant user experiences with no excessive non Openstack relevant terms enforced for those who get used to OpenStack, AWS alike clouds.

Besides billing, Uniview public cloud solution takes full advantage of Uniview cloud console which is known providing industry best OpenStack cloud observability with all desirable seamless graphic metric views, sophisticated wizards, drag and drop transparent S3/Object store user interfaces, One click Kubernetes Dashboard, tons of security features etc that a leverage you can rely on to compete with AWS and other mega clouds. .

More reasons to think of Uniview as your public cloud solutions:

Keep the Nature of Open-source Solution Overall While Boosting Total Solutions with Enterprise Disciplines^{★★★★★}

Uniview is a proprietary layer over OpenStack to complement Open-source ecosystem. With Uniview, a business stays with all the benefits open sources bring in, and the meanwhile gains a premium cohesive business effect that is normally only achieveable through high cost of substantial developments and costly R&D. It's thin as it doesn't break the integrity of OpenStack, inherites many legacies and interacts only through APIs with OpenStack. It's substantial, as it refines the user experiences of OpenStack by rewriting user interactions of dozens cloud services, and provides various utilities for enterprise needs.

OpenStack frontends and integrations for the public cloud are a high complex proceeding. We constantly research and develop to align with the best of the industry, and timely integrate those new features into the products, so that you don't need invest again. We open future developments into one package of Uniview to ongoing customer to drive business excellence.

Leading by Being Comprehensive, Sophisticate and Sustainable^{★★★★★}

Be comprehensive as a public should be! Uniview started its journey from evolving Horizon and Skyline legacy, hence it happened to have wide coverage as OpenStack nature goes. This can be different from other billing derived solutions that other than billing, the solution on OpenStack console itself is relatively limited. Uniview has substantial engineering in meeting various technical use-cases. Regardless Compute VM focused, Kubernetes Oriented or Storage intensive clouds, Uniview purposed engineering are substantial. Fully aligned with upstream OpenStack community, every components and protocols has no constraint of evolving toward the future. Easy with 30 minutes install to get started, to scale up into medium to big public clouds, and horizontally grow from only VM cloud toward Container/Kubernetes cloud, Database and object cloud storage feature enriched morden clouds at no extra hassles. Uniview comes with a ticketing system that helps communications, drives transparencies and increase trusts!

Be sophisicated as a public should be! Expectation on public cloud from users is way higher than private clouds at today. Dull experience or simple layout will soon lose customer traction. With this in mind, Uniview implementaiton has been a rentless innovation journey to stay at front. Some examples of such include an unparalleled Kuberntes Dashboards, VM Wizards, Object Storage Console, cohesive across services integration and more! Uniview comes with Kubernetes API implementation too, in parallel to OpenStack APIs. The dashboards combine the beauty of both world leading open source ecosystems, i.e. OIF(Open Infra Foundation) and CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). Uniview comes with a user oriented S3 alike cloud storage console that manages object store with funs. And there are many other well polished world leading consoles for services that entertain users !

Uniview is sustainable by multiple folds. First of all, to run such a complexity of public cloud engine, users often find Uniview is straightforward and low-maintenance. Due to its sound architecture Uniview doesn't introduces excessive complexities. To compare with similar other public cloud solutions, Uniview refrained from introducing disparate technologies such as mongodb, redis, api engine etc, when they can help in one way but incohesive feature adding implies a good amount extra backup, high availability, security, monitoring overhead and administrator skill curves. Uniview sticks to the same famility as much as possible, such as only MySql or MariaDb that OpenStack controller uses, to have database reduduncy and backup resuable across all openstack components. Uniview integrated API-Engine makes it maintenance free with smart detecting and proxing to hundreds of OpenStack and non-openstack endpoints: Keystone, Keycloak, Nova, Prometheus, Ceph, Kubernetes Internal API, Payment Gateway etc. Secondly Uniview is scalable when it can be scaled to support huge user requests by simple load balancing. How to scale is a critical factor of total operation cost of running a software solution. Uniview architecture is designed to support up to hundreds identical daemonsets that can be distributed into one or many docker instances or Kubernest pods over collision avoiding coordination and smart job distribution. To compare with some other similar solutions, the total cost of owning and running Uniview is only a very small portion of those. That makes Uniview a perfect fit to both very resource limited startup and carrier grade enterprise!

Bring Risk of Public Cloud Investment to the Minimal^{★★★★★}

Operating public cloud can be daunting and costly! But with Uniview it's not necessary! Uniview may be considered as operation execellence build book of a public cloud. With out-of-box readiness of key public cloud features, you can see what your final cloud can be in short manner with no risk neither uncertainties of lengthy in-house PoC and developments. Also as a build book of excellence, it often guides public cloud integration from a daunting error-trying process into the fun of verified and consistent block stacking, the way of securing a public cloud investment!

Some known references show that in-house developments of frontend and billing solution can be very costly and not sustainable. The journey of Uniview, as one example, was actually exponentially longer than what was imagined at the beginning. Thus with Uniview as a shared model, the similar efforts by a substantial team for many years is not necessarily accounted in your new project planning.

Minimal operation hidden risk! Billing can be most labor intensive process from metering, bill generation, payment, invoice management toward account auditing. With Uniview we can have most of those covered. For serious deploy, we will stand with you shoulder by shoulder for bill generating, troubelshooting, payment, invoice, and rating/pricing definitition where most hidden operation curves lie for a public cloud. Uniview is one package solution for all. As native to OpenStack and developed for OpenStack and working only for Openstack, hence its administration is intuitive and concise. To compare with other billing solutions derived from e.g. webhosting, or those originated for backends of VMware/CloudStack, Uniview is found way concise and sustaintable, e.g. by complementary solution over latest community based metering. To get started does not require substantial resource. And it is scalable with no upper limit.

On operation wise, Uniview pricing model is Pay as You Grow, so that the upfront cost to kick a business off and the investment risk can be very low for startups.

Business Viable by Accomodating and Full Compatibility^{★★★★★}

Uniview provides adapdations to various possibilities of your OpenStack Install, e.g. by different distros, different customizations, security enforcements, CEPH RGW, Kuberntes CAPI vs Magnum classic, CloudKitty or other billing modules, existing Cloud Federation, or Keycloak addon. It's generally like a Plug and Play. Uniview supports many different user onboarding processes on demand by a client, such as its native user registration and validation process, social networks (Google, Github etc) binding then one click to register, or Keycloak user registration process plus Uniview SSO Landing Portal for billing control. Accomodating and compatibility are proven helpful in cutting significant both engineering and operation hurdles so that a small team can operate a large and sophisiticate cloud. With Uniview, service provider can instantly have acurate billing, dashboards, price plan definition, rating with just a few clicks, when it could be months or year efforts due to native self-sufficient metering/rating or open-source way on customer choice.

In many business, OpenStack Object Storage based on either Swift Stack or Ceph Cluster RADOS GW has gained traction in industry. Both technologies have been proven Scalable and Reliable underlying that enables many business potentials! Uniview complements the solution by providing a user interface, business branding support, metering, billing and invoicing service to a business, possible monitoring too.
More reasons to have Uniview as part of your Object Store services:

• A business ready User Interface
• Well designed UI specfically for object operations to provide your users superb experiences: uploading, browsing, deletion, copy, properties set
• Administrator based user creation/deletion or user self-enrolled registration
• Role based user access console
• Dashboards on demand
• Metering of object store usage, Rating, Billing and Invoice

Uniview naturally supports GPU workload along with the upstream Open Infra goes. There are some special engineering polished for it too, such as at Uniview wizards, the GPU factors are properly displayed for user to select when a flavor is selcted. The price definition is fine granulated to reflect GPU factors.

Users often find that Uniview is a good option for AI and its ecosystem too from point of view of boosted user experiencer of object data storage, and support of relational database as well No-sql database.

An immediate reason to have Uniview in your Kubernetes Over OpenStack is that its dual stacks support. With Uniview, it comes along with a Kubernetes Native dashboard that user can browse, edit main Kubernetes objects without hassles of Kubectl setup and credential retrieveing. This features well complement the Kubernetes Cluster provisioning by Heat or CAPI, so that user can manage the entire lifecycles of Kubernetes cluster: provisioning, configuration, monitoring and retiring all over one pane. Uniview can work different backend plugins of your Kubernetes support.

There are tons of different OpenStack monitoring solutions in the industry, either Open Source or commerical based solutions! Uniview comes into to provide a light-weight quick solution that unifies everything into one console that provides dashboard, self-scaning service and open source based agents integration to collect metric and alarm on configurations!

The reasons to have Uniview to serve your OpenStack monitoring:

• Everything is unified at one place
• Role based access
• Comprehensive monitoring of those that matter! Bare metal servers, OpenStack service daemons, RabbitMq, Constroler database and Ceph Cluster
• Alarming on pre-configured metrics
• Webhook integration possibilities with popular monitoring tools: Padgeduty, Slack, Email and etc
• Easy integration with just simple binary agent copy to run on your targets
• Featured by accurate capacity management by collecting and caculating all factors to administrators