Vendor Landscape: Cloud Management
Add a management layer involving abstraction and automation to your infrastructure to create a private, virtual private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
- Large enterprises are looking for a solution to manage their private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
- Hosted service providers are looking to establish a foundation for providing cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to enterprise clients.
- Any organization has potential to bolster their infrastructure automation capabilities, bringing cloud-like management to multiple pools of consolidated and virtualized infrastructure.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Many Options in a Still Nascent Market: Interest in the cloud space is heating up, bringing ample venture capital and a flood of entrants to the market. Consider your level of risk tolerance and longer term vendor viability when selecting a solution.
- OpenStack a Very Rough Diamond: Open-source options such as OpenStack seem attractive at first glance, but caution is warranted when deciding on their applicability for each specific organization. This is the beginning of a solution requiring additional finishing work. Implementation delays and cost overruns are a risk here.
- Elegant Offerings Beginning to Emerge: Core elements such as elastic self-service provisioning, as well as an array of management tools, are effectively provided by most vendors. Key differentiators to look for when selecting a platform include features boosting ease-of-use and architectures providing solution flexibility.
Impact and Result
- Understand what’s new in the CMP market.
- Evaluate prominent and trend-setting vendors and products against your enterprise needs.
- Determine which products are most appropriate for particular use cases and scenarios.
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