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Features & Benefits

The table below describes individual features and benefits of the Abiquo solution.
See the Compare Editions page to see the features included in each of the Community and Enterprise editions.

Feature	Benefit
Complete, available solution	Organizations do not have to consider a combination of products from different vendors with the inherent compatibility and support responsibility issues.
Multi-tenancy	The ability to separate user groups by organization, division, group or department in any combination, and for each to have their own entity centric management view.
Delegated control	Frees the IT infrastructure team from the need to provision and manage every virtual machine while empowering authorised users, reducing backlog and bottlenecks and significantly increasing agility and flexibility.
Resource limits	Ensures that no entity can cause physical capacity of the system to be exceeded, and encourages users to release un-needed resources quickly.
Workload policy	Completely automates the allocation of virtual machines across the physical infrastructure while adhering to defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance.
Support for all common hypervisors	Hypervisor support becomes a non-issue, allowing organizations to focus on the higher value of management functionality.
Automatic conversion between all Hypervisor types	Vendor lock-in to any particular hypervisor is eliminated. Even if organizations have no immediate plans to change hypervisors, the fact they have the ability to do so reduces risk and substantially improves their negotiating position.
Appliance library	Allows segregated maintenance of virtual machine images and appliances across public, shared and private libraries. Allows grouping of multiple virtual machine configurations into a single appliance for simple and rapid deployment. Allows IT organization to provide or prescribe pre-built images to corporate standards.
Web based context-aware graphical user interface	Single point of control that can be immediately accessed by any authorized user from any location. Easy to understand and operate, reducing training times, and promoting user confidence.
Simplicity of installation	Well contained central components run on commodity hardware reducing cost. Roll-out can be staged over any time period and is entirely non-disruptive.
Flexible scalability	Allows adoption of the solution by organizations of all sizes, from small groups and SMEs through to the largest multi-national corporations with multiple datacenters.
Standards based	Allows interfacing with third party products and systems, interoperability, selection of components to corporate standards, and rapid support of new and additional products and devices.
Advanced Networking	Allows Cloud Operators to define and track multiple, named networks from which Self Service Administrators can consume resources.