How to achieve security management in the key turning point of cloud computing

At present, the cloud management market is increasingly competitive, major IT vendors are gearing up for cloud management territory, and according to IDC Research, the Global Cloud management software market in 2015 is expected to reach 2.5 billion U.S. dollars. For major vendors, cloud management is an opportunity to establish long-term and lasting strategic partnerships with customers. For emerging vendors, cloud computing is also important for developing products and providing SaaS solutions to the broader cloud management environment.

In the face of this competitive situation, CAExpo2012, vice president of cloud computing, virtualization and services automation at Catechnologies Asia Pacific and Japan, said Catechnologies first started with IT management services, It's also a commitment to leveraging cloud computing to make it a service, software SaaS, that can help companies achieve this cloud-based management faster and better.

Mixed Cloud Management

In the marketplace, the main cloud infrastructure management offerings provide similar core elements: most support different cloud types; Most support dynamically creating new objects at run time and making them available for service, or dynamically deleting objects that are no longer needed, including services, storage, or applications; , such as startup time, response time, usage quotas, and a dashboard software interface that can be manipulated. Most vendors are content to provide the three core functions, and rare vendors provide additional functionality to handle supply and management in a mixed environment, and managing a hybrid cloud is challenging, but it can be improved with the right tools.

Suboguha, vice president of product management at Catechnologies Cloud Solutions, describes Catechnologies's suite of automated cloud solutions to meet customer demand for mixed cloud management, providing cloud automation deployments regardless of the heterogeneous systems used by the enterprise. At the same time, we understand that the CA also offers a complete set of solutions, including a public cloud, a private cloud, and the most important of these solutions are Plug and play, which can quickly meet the needs of the enterprise. In fact, for users, when implementing a hybrid cloud management strategy that includes multiple vendors, it is more forward-looking to use cross-platform tools.

As cloud construction focuses on the transition from the data center to the operation of different types of cloud, such as the public cloud, the private cloud, and the mixed cloud, the corresponding management tasks also change from the management of the data center to the management of the cloud. The best path to cloud management is to start with data center management, consolidate the underlying resources, and deploy through virtualization and automation, eventually transitioning to cloud services.

Cloud Security Management

According to TechTarget China's recent "Cloud Computing Security Survey" for users in China, we found a 55-part state of security recognition for cloud services, which is generally considered safe and considered unsafe by most people. Suboguha that the main reason for this situation is that cloud computing is relatively new, only five years old. Over the past five years, 60% of cloud computing services have been private clouds that have been built within the enterprise. There is less concern about the security of private clouds, because the architecture of private cloud security is integrated with the security architecture of the enterprise's own IT systems.

In addition, more than a 33.6% of respondents chose to take account of the cloud, which was the most concerned by companies in the survey. Suboguha said that the most important thing about the CA in cloud security is access control, the management of accesses. For example, which people can access data in the cloud. For the private cloud domain, CAS already have industry-leading technologies to ensure their security. For the public cloud domain where the user is not at ease, Catechnologies has launched a number of innovative solutions for cloud security, primarily to manage the identity of the user's visitors, authenticate them, and then properly authorize them to access only the data that he can access at this level of authorization.

At present, we find that outside the proprietary cloud management tools of vendors, open source cloud management tools for building and managing cloud computing are developing quickly, and open source software is free, but it is likely to be acquired or integrated into advanced proprietary tools. In the future, the cloud computing tools market will shrink over time, with only a handful of businesses offering products that integrate cloud deployment and management capabilities.