Cloud Computing Tools Review

Most companies know the main cloud computing solution provider, but some less-well-known vendors are emerging. Whether all of these well-known unknown manufacturers can succeed is still an unknown.

So, while there are hundreds of cloud computing solutions vendors on the market, how can we, as users, find the cloud products and suppliers that really meet our needs? Classifying cloud vendors to better understand the applications migration, Leading vendors in key areas such as automation and monitoring do not seem to benefit.

However, the classification of all these tools is of some use. Cloud computing application migration tools are essential for creating hybrid cloud computing. Automation tools are easy to implement, reduce errors, and reduce costs, and the results are obvious. Although cloud computing monitoring tools ensure overall performance and security, such tools do not attract enough attention from the industry. Below we will introduce the typical representatives of the tools according to their categories.

Application Migration Tool

Interoperability is an important topic in cloud computing, especially when it comes to mixing cloud computing. A key part of interoperability is application migration, the ability to migrate applications between private and public clouds or between public clouds.

Migrating applications across the cloud may allow organizations to choose the most appropriate technology and be limited to vendors. But without a corresponding tool to collaborate with different cloud computing vendors and services, this migration is not possible. There are numerous companies in the market for application migrations, including:

Cloudswitch, a company acquired by Verizon Communications in 2011, uses cloud-separation technology to enable the cloud-computing migration of multi-tier applications. Cloud computing Isolation technology is a virtualization technology layer that runs automatically between the cloud computing vendor Management program and the end-user operating system.

The virtualization layer provides information to the virtual machine without any additional information from the cloud vendor. It protects and isolates the environment in the cloud. When using Cloudswitch, you do not need to modify the application; The technology maps an application, so it appears to be running in the target cloud environment while maintaining the same configuration as the source environment.

Racemi Dynacenter captures a server in the data center or cloud (physical or virtual) and deploys it to the target environment. An important component of the Racemi Company application Migration Tool is a management device that can access both the captured server environment and the target server environment. It maps between the two environments.

Appzero provides software for creating, controlling, and maintaining virtual application devices (VAA). Vaa is a self-contained, portable, operating system-free unit. If you have an enterprise application, you can use the Appzero product to implement its deployment virtualization. Once it conforms to the VAA format, you can migrate between different IT infrastructures.

The Citrix System Company's NetScaler Cloud Bridge extends the source cloud so that cloud-managed applications behave as if they were running on a continuous enterprise network. This tool includes a secure channel that provides connectivity between the clouds and allows data and information to be migrated securely. It also provides transparent access to source cloud managed application services such as domain Name System (DNS) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). NetScaler Cloud Bridge creates an overlay network of logical extensions to the source cloud DMZ to ensure that the settings in the target cloud virtual local area network (VLAN) are the same as those in the DMZ VLAN.

Automation Tools for cloud computing

Server virtualization reduces the time it takes to configure the server, but it does not speed up installation. To control and manage the infrastructure, IT managers must use labor-intensive management tools and manual scripts. It teams are hard pressed to keep up with ongoing changes in requirements to maintain the accessibility and security of cloud computing dynamic configuration and virtual machine migrations. This makes automation an important part of cloud computing migration. Here are a few companies that provide cloud computing automation tools:

Cisco Overdrive was acquired by Cisco Systems Corporation from Linesider Technology in 2010 to automate the configuration and deployment of network services in the cloud computing environment. When resources are migrated or changed, policy-driven tools modify the underlying network infrastructure. Overdrive is located between the LDAP directory, the Hypervisor manager, and the device controller for managing Routing and virtual private networks, swaps, VLANs, firewalls, and related access control lists.

dynamicops Cloud Computing Automation Center is an internet-based model-driven platform based on Microsoft Windows workflows. Automating predefined IT service deliveries in a private cloud infrastructure is faster than traditional manual methods; This tool allows automation across private cloud and public cloud.

HP's Cloud computing Services automation tool includes several HP software tools for automating configuration, configuration, patches, and release management. The toolkit implements simplification and automation of databases, middleware, and packaged applications, and enables integrated application configuration and monitoring in heterogeneous and scalable cloud computing environments.

The CA Data Center Automation Toolkit for CA Technologies automates server configuration, process, and configuration management.

Cloud computing monitoring and management tools

If you accept the trend of the IT industry-from hosts, shared resources to clients, servers, dedicated resources, back to today's low-cost hardware, shared resources-you know that all systems behave differently. This relies on a virtualized environment that does not exist on the client or server. This reliance on fuzzy boundaries forces IT staff to adjust their methods of monitoring and managing the environment.

It organizations often fail to properly use the monitoring tools of virtualized environments. There is a tendency to continue to use the same monitoring tools that were used in traditional data centers, but these tools are not sufficient to monitor traffic between virtual servers. Local communication between virtual servers can be largely out of control, while traffic through virtual switches is partially invisible, because this part of the traffic is not on the line.

To ensure the best cloud computing application experience, administrators must monitor virtual traffic between virtual machines. Here are some useful cloud monitoring tools:

The Netqos service automation acquired by CA technology company in 2009 provides network software for performance management and response time analysis. The tool can troubleshoot network application performance issues and plan for changing and managing service levels.

Hyperic HQ Open Source software monitors virtualized infrastructure and automatically discovers, monitors, and manages software services. The tool also monitors servers, databases, authentication systems, and other components that contain data centers.

SpringSource acquired Hyperic in 2009, and VMware bought SpringSource in the same year.

While open source software is the banner of the cloud computing market, Hyperic HQ is the only product available in the open source cloud computing software listed here. But there are several companies, such as eucalyptus systems, Opennebula and OpenStack projects, as well as other open-source management programs such as KVM and Citrix XenServer that target cloud environments.

• New Relic Real user monitoring focuses on application performance monitoring so that cloud managers can view the situation in the environment.

SolarWinds is a complete set of tools for monitoring networks, storage, applications, servers, and virtualization performance. This tool provides the ability to view the CPU, memory, and network conditions in a virtual environment. The tool suite enables monitoring of the cloud stack from top to bottom.

The accelops APM monitoring tool captures and analyzes information related to network infrastructure. Cloud managers can use Accelop to access data such as the status, events, trends, and configuration of networks, network devices, systems, applications, and virtual environments. Administrators can also make alert settings to notify them of performance or memory allocation problems.

• The Nimsoft private cloud monitor monitors servers, network devices, databases, and applications in addition to virtualized environments based on VMware ESX, VMware vsphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. CA technology company acquired Nimsoft in 2010.

Avoid cloud computing tool errors

Most of the tools listed here are relatively new, so they are only tested in production. When choosing your cloud computing tool, be sure to check the manufacturer's Reference list. If a vendor does not come out of the customer reference list, be careful.

When comparing the choice of cloud computing tools, you should also pay special attention to the companies that have been acquired or the companies that have been acquired as candidates, in case of a dilemma. This is often the case when a purchased company's product is bundled into a larger product kit and is not sold separately.

Some organizations are creating clouds without first considering application migration, automation, and monitoring requirements. Without the tools to consider these features, it is difficult for organizations to achieve the more important benefits of cloud computing-agility, flexibility, lower costs, and scalability.