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What is Cloud Management?

The management of the cloud means the management of the data with the help of software technologies which are used to design and monitors application. There are several tools which we can use for managing the cloud computing based resources. These resources are working properly with users and other services.

There are several strategies of cloud management which involves many tasks such as performance monitoring, security and, compliant.  IT services include complex management tasks such as maintaining the availability of resources and providing completely functional software it also helps to implement standardized security controls and procedures. For higher security company provides some specific tools which help to manage the cloud.

Types of Cloud Provisioning

Here, is the list of Cloud computing provisioning:

  • User self-Provisioning
  • Dynamic Provisioning
  • Advanced Provisioning

i. User self-provisioning

It is the cloud service purchase from the other provider. It can be made from a web, console interface.

ii. Dynamic provisioning

When the customer is in need of resources the provider allocates it. The provider has a right to discontinue when they are no longer in use, the customer is charged on a usage basis.

iii. Advanced provisioning

A pre-determined amount of resource contract by the customer in advance. Here the customer pays a flat fee or an advanced fee.

There are lots of tools which can use to manage the cloud services. These tools help to create a virtual pool of resources. Moreover, it provides a portal which will help to enhance the security services. There are several more benefits of it such as resource allocation, tracking, and billing. The cloud environment is highly virtualized and organized as private clouds are source driven.

Cloud Management Benefits

Following are the advantages of Cloud Computing Management:

i. Quick Delivery Time

Nowadays customers are in need of rapid delivery which provides with the help of proper management. The customer will choose the service only if it is quick and easy to use. The cloud computing team provides instant delivery so that their customers are satisfied and this is done with the help of proper management.

ii. Flexibility

Customers demand various facilities and want CPU, memory, disk space, or network configuration. These facilities should be customer friendly and should provide maximum flexibility to the customer. The customer can modify what they need to self-service provisioning and eliminates costly hardware. Cloud management also provides flexibility so that the customer has to pay only for what they have used.

iii. Security

For complete management there should be proper security otherwise the management is incomplete. Therefore, cloud companies provide proper security, firewall, and confidentiality. This makes all the files, programs, and other data secure on site. If the customer is remotely accessing the data there is a chance of some cybercrime. So the companies are also taking actions regarding this.

iv. Economical

With the help of problem management, cloud providers try to keep the price as low as possible. As Cloud Computing is for small-scale as well as large-scale organizations so the prices low to implement the cloud-based server.

4. Cloud Management Tools

For organized cloud management there are specialized tools which are helpful for the customer as well as the seller. These tools help to monitor, manage cost, provide security and improve the capabilities of the Cloud. There are various companies which use various tools for the management.

Some of the companies and their tools are mentioned below-

  • AWS
  • Google
  • Microsoft Azure

i. Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services provides a facility for the user to access and modify the instances of the cloud with the help of command line interface.

ii. Google

It provides Google Cloud Platform (GCP) which is a monitoring and logging tools. In addition, Google Stackdriver provides performance data for virtual machines and applications.

iii. Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has an Azure site recovery tool which helps administrators to automatically replicate VMs.

There are several private cloud management tools which are beneficial too. The companies use these private cloud management tools which include specific management software. This software can be VM Turbo Operations Managers and Embotics VCommander. These tools offer sophisticated software framework to manage the private and hybrid cloud.

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