A cloud management platform (CMP) is core to managing your mix of private and public cloud services. According to Jad El‐Zein and Shobhana Viswanathan, authors of Cloud Management for Dummies…
At a broader and more business‐oriented level, a CMP is about much more than enabling the automated provisioning of IT resources. Yes, that’s a critical CMP capability, but it isn’t the full story. An effective enterprise CMP includes both the following:
Day 1 capabilities:
Day 1 capabilities enable cloud providers and consumers the ability to rapidly provision a complete services stack — one or more applications, infrastructure, plus all their dependencies — across private and public clouds. And your users have easy access to cloud‐based IT services. These are among the minimum capabilities for a CMP — but an enterprise CMP doesn’t stop there.Day 2 capabilities:
A CMP that’s ready for the challenges of a large enterprise also addresses the Day 2 activities involved in managing and optimizing a hybrid cloud environment. These include both automation‐centric activities and operations management‐centric activities that allow you to keep a hybrid cloud environment and associated applications up and running — with peak efficiency and optimal performance — and to operate it like a business.An enterprise CMP does all the following:
✓ Provides unified management of public, private, and hybrid cloud resources
✓ Enables Day 1 automated provisioning of application‐centric infrastructure and streamlined access to cloud services
✓ Enables Day 2 capabilities needed to keep a hybrid cloud environment operating at peak efficiency and maintain optimal performance throughout an application’s life cycle
Download your copy to learn what to look for in a CMP to meet your needs around:
- Lifecycle management – from deployment to maintenance
- Hybrid landscape – manage local and remote services
- Quality of service – improve uptime and performance
- Cost containment – capture and communicate usage
