The management needs of cloud computing appear

When a company has a lot of scattered resources that are not fully utilized, the cloud-based management model becomes an important management tool, especially when those with a large amount of computing resources and the calculated demand fluctuations are relatively large. The cloud management software will bring real value. A few days ago, Amazon introduced the management software of BMC to unify and manage Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) service, which brought great convenience to its resource adjustment.

Elastic Compute Cloud Service is a computing service launched by Amazon. Users can rent the computing resources they need from Amazon according to their needs. According to reports, Amazon uses some modules of BSM to manage its computing resources, so as to ensure that the remaining resources are fully utilized and the speed at which users deploy services can be improved. With BMC's solution, companies that rent Amazon services can extend their internal data centers to EC2 and integrate EC2 and internal resources to automatically track scheduling and auto-configuration using a unified interface. Moreover, the asset federation and tracking capabilities of the configuration management database provided in the BMC solution can help users comply with Amazon EC2 specifications and manage physical, virtual and cloud environments to reduce cost and deployment complexity. .

According to the reporter, in addition to Amazon, there are still a number of cloud computing service providers that have adopted similar solutions from BMC, including some telecom operators and Internet companies like Yahoo to help them achieve similar clouds in a large server cluster. The function of the calculation. However, in BMC's view, with the gradual maturity of cloud computing, many enterprises are faced with the problem of unified management of computing resources inside and outside the enterprise. Such management software has a large market. Because this kind of solution can manage the cloud computing environment from resource scheduling to server monitoring, so that users can clearly understand the utilization of the entire cloud, and make adjustments or increase hardware deployment according to requirements. In addition, in terms of security management, such solutions can also support policy management to ensure the security of the entire system.

BMC, which provides IT services from the mainframe, has a rigorous tradition of mainframe management and extends to the general IT management process, noting that such requirements are timely and a set of software that can be used for cloud computing resource management. .

Now, users who need to deploy cloud computing are divided into two categories by BMC, one is a user who already has a certain implementation; the other is a new customer. For the former customer, the integration of the previously deployed infrastructure and the introduction of business processes is the main work of BMC; the latter customer is relatively easy, and the main problem remains how to customize according to the needs of users. The diversification of demand and the diversification of IT infrastructure are the main tasks facing BMC.

At present, there are not many companies that provide cloud computing management software. In addition to Google's own software, BMC is one of the few companies that cooperate with companies such as IBM to provide cloud computing management software modules.