Experts talk about five key considerations for managing cloud computing

Hurwitz & Associates Partner Fern Halper, a market research firm, said he hadn't written a blog for a long time because he spent most of the summer with Judith, Robin Hurwitz and Bloor Kaufman and other people to study our "Cloud Computing fool book." However, he said, he did publish a short blog about "a premise and many prerequisites" and wanted to read about the cloud-related people.

The Cloud-computing Fool book will be published earlier this fall, Halper said. He hoped that it would be worthwhile to spend time writing the book. ' They did a lot of research for the book, ' he said. Readers will find this book helpful in their search for answers to questions about what cloud computing is, why and how it is implemented. Judith recently published a blog about 10 things she learned when she wrote this book. To stick to this theme, Halper proposed five key considerations for managing cloud computing. He will briefly introduce these five considerations. In this book, they clearly need to introduce the management issue in more detail. It should be noted that many of these issues are still at an early stage.

Service Quality

Halper points out that when many cloud computing vendors solve the problem of managing cloud computing, they talk only about managing the resources that are born in virtual infrastructure, especially about self-service configurations and about some type of automated resource allocation. They do not need to talk about fixing failures, providing service-level agreements, or managing security lights. In other words, they don't talk about managing the quality of the services they are providing. However, one key element in managing cloud computing is ensuring quality of service. The quality of service itself includes many issues, such as usability, reliability, scalability, maintainability, integrity, security, and many other similar terms. Companies that use a cloud computing provider should at least know these services so they can measure and monitor what is going on and whether their providers will meet the service-level agreements they have reached. Of course, negotiating these service-level agreements is another important consideration.

Governance

This area is still in its early stages. Governance defines who is responsible for what, and the policies and procedures that individuals and groups need to implement to ensure that business goals and targets are met. Cloud computing governance needs to govern your own infrastructure and the infrastructure you don't have entirely. This includes understanding risks (such as compliance risks, contract risks, interoperability risks, billing risks, and so on) and ensuring performance objectives are met. A key aspect of a governance strategy is to combine the right teams to communicate with internal and external providers to ensure policy and program enforcement.

Standard

Standards are another emerging area. One criterion is the consistent approach to doing things. Cloud computing standards need to ensure interoperability, portability, and integrity. Many institutions and informal organizations are addressing standard issues in the cloud computing environment. Some have been on the show for years, and some are relatively new. Some of these agencies have collaborated to create a cloud computing standard coordination Wiki (victor, a collaborative authoring tool), so every organization can publish its own work in one place. You can find this Vic on the www.cloud-standards.org site.

Security and privacy

This topic has received a lot of attention from various organizations such as Cloud Computing Security Alliance. The same principles that apply to your own environment will apply to cloud computing. This includes identity management to ensure that only authorized personnel are allowed to access assets and have the ability to identify legitimate and illegal activities. One big area of concern is protecting data in the cloud. This includes addressing compliance issues, such as compliance issues related to Cross-border data movement.

Working with Data

Closely related to data security is the assurance of proper control of data mix or ancillary application data (e.g., for marketing purposes). This includes the auditable nature of the data in cloud computing (another emerging area). In addition to auditing and control, another issue is how vendors store and access large amounts of data that is being stored in cloud computing. This has resulted in new ideas about database management systems and other data storage.

Dr Halper says cloud computing management is a huge, complex and evolving topic. I will only provide you with some of the relevant questions. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this subject.