Using a common set of workflows associated with pre-created solution blueprints simplifies the deployment of advanced hardware and platform software in a consistent and repeatable fashion.

Deploying and managing large numbers of endpoints centrally in data centers or at many distributed sites such as customer premises, cell towers or regional co-location facilities requires a life cycle management solution that can scale-out to support millions of simultaneous configuration operations, workflows and collected metrics.

Managing multiple hardware and software endpoint types from multiple vendors requires a life cycle management solution with a diverse set of endpoint adapters working in conjunction with each other for a common set of operations.

Producing a list of events for deployed hardware and software versions associated with known vulnerabilities and exploits, and the ability to automatically remediate them, will greatly reduce the exposure to security risks.

Retaining persistent inventory and configuration data for each deployment provides a source of truth for monitoring, future modifications and redeployments.

The integration of hardware and software operational data collection (through polling and subscriptions), and persistent storage of the results in a time series database, allows historical metric reporting for any key performance indicator.

Allowing skilled DevOps staff to focus on creating and testing solution blueprints that non-DevOps staff can deploy and manage overcomes skill set related staffing bottlenecks.

A solution that integrates log collection in conjunction with operational data collection can provide levels of insight as to why hardware and software endpoints are trending downward, offering opportunities to address issues before they occur.

Supporting hierarchical multi-tenancy allows resources to be deployed, managed and transferred between more than one customer or organization.

Governing the deployment and management lifecycle requires a solution that supports many user groups containing communities of users and permissions for specific groups of endpoints.