What is Cloud Management?
Managing cloud computing products and services is known as cloud management. Each cloud type – Public, Private and Hybrid – has its own set of management requirements and rules.
Public clouds are managed by public cloud service providers, which include the public cloud environment’s servers, storage, networking and data center operations. Users of public cloud services have three options for provisioning:
– Self-provisioning: Customers purchase cloud services directly from the provider, typically through a web form or console interface. The customer pays on a per-transaction basis.
– Advance provisioning: Customers contract in advance the amount of resources they would use, which are prepared in advance of service. The customer pays a flat fee or a monthly fee.
– Dynamic provisioning: The provider allocates resources when the customer needs them, then decommissions them when they are no longer needed. The customer is charged on a pay-per-use basis.
Private cloud need software tools to help create a virtualized pool of compute resources, provide a self-service portal for end users and handle security, resource allocation, tracking and billing. Management tools for private clouds tend to be service driven, as opposed to resource driven, because cloud environments are typically highly virtualized and organized in terms of portable workloads. In hybrid cloud, computing, network, and storage resources are managed across multiple domains.
