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SELF SERVICE AND GOVERNANCE
The Nutanix Marketplace enables complete self-service for
your Nutanix Enterprise Cloud environment. Users can
consume pre-integrated blueprints or custom blueprints
that have been published to the marketplace. This gives
application owners and developers the ability to request
IT services and have them be instantly provisioned.
Role-based governance allows user operations to be limited
based on assigned permissions. All activities and changes
across the entire infrastructure stack are centrally logged
for end-to-end traceability and debugging, aiding security
teams with key compliance initiatives. Department and group-
level chargeback and cost controls allow you to carefully
monitor IT expenses across public and private clouds.
Calm includes budgeting tools that reduce IT negotiations
to an easy-to-understand number, allowing you to control
user behavior through service costs. For example, if you
have a preferred database, you can encourage people to
adopt that database by making it free, or less expensive
than alternatives.
Figure 3. Calm provides detailed cost accounting on a team and application
basis across clouds.
