As with any emerging market comes terminology confusion. The term “Cloud Management” is a great recent example. We want to take a few minutes to help define this important term.
You will hear people refer to various solutions as Cloud Management Software – from Cloud Operating Systems to tools that allow you to manage multiple SaaS solutions.
In the IaaS space, Cloud Management Software sits on top of various public and private clouds and provides the following capabilities:
1) Allows users to provision, manage and control various public clouds and private cloud platforms
2) Helps manage users, security, and automation across infrastructures
3) Protect from single cloud vendor lock-in to allow cross-cloud operations and migration
4) Manage your service level requirements
5) Audit and report for compliance
The diagram below shows our perspective of the relationship Cloud OS solutions.
VMware has a great definition of a Cloud OS.
“A cloud operating system is a new category of software that is specifically designed to holistically manage large collections of infrastructure – CPUs, storage, networking – as a seamless, flexible and dynamic operating environment. Analogous to the operating system that manages the complexity of an individual machine, the cloud operating system manages the complexity of a datacenter.”
We hope that this helps clarify the difference.
1) Allows users to provision, manage and control various public clouds and private cloud platforms
2) Helps manage users, security, and automation across infrastructures
3) Protect from single cloud vendor lock-in to allow cross-cloud operations and migration
Posted by: tiffany outlet | 09/15/2011 at 11:47 AM