Cloud Management implementation: Hybrid Cloud and cloud security

As companies gradually expand their IT budget breakthroughs, capital expenditures cannot meet the needs of innovation, so more companies turn to cloud services and buy the products they really need, but operating costs are among the most attractive. The need for cloud management software is increasing, mainly because cloud computing is deployed to a critical turning point.

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, on CA Expo 2012, CA Technologies, vice president of cloud computing, virtualization and service automation, Asia Pacific and Japan, said CA Technologies first started with IT management services, It is also working to use cloud computing to make it a service, software as a service (SaaS), that can help businesses 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.

SuBo Guha, vice president of product management at CA Technologies Cloud Solutions, describes the CA technologies suite of cloud solutions that meet the needs of customers in mixed cloud management, and can provide 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. Subo Guha 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. Subo Guha says that the most important thing about a CA in cloud security is access control-access management. 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, CA Technologies has launched a number of innovative solutions for cloud security, primarily to manage the identity of the user's visitors, authenticate them, and then authorize them appropriately to access only the data he has access to 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.