5 Top Cloud Management Providers
How to optimize your cloud computing system further
The cloud is everywhere. Setting up a server to host some games? You’re better off doing it through cloud. Sharing some files with work? You should probably look at cloud. Cloud saves the time, configuration, and resource-based expenses (like electricity) that traditional server-in-the-closet systems just love to soak up. So which cloud management provider should you be looking at to help keep your system in check? Here are 5 of the best.
Apica
Based out of Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, to be precise – where Apple is based), Apaica offers a suite of tools called WebExcellence. These test cloud servers’ ability to react to loads – intelligently. Rather than just hitting servers with as many requests as possible (DDoS-style), the program runs scripts that mimic users fulfilling roles in line with your companies purpose and business goals. WebExcellence then supplies an in-depth report and visual confirmation as to how your system performed.
Jamcracker
Another Silicon Valley startup – this time from Santa Clara – believes it has the solution to over-clouding. At the moment, the rapid adoption of cloud technology by businesses means they have often have to deal with multiple providers, and therefore multiple interfaces and log-ins. The Jamcracker Platform is one of a number of attempts to organize all these providers in one place. Administrator workload is significantly reduced when access through single sign-on (SSO).
Netuitive
Hailing from Vancouver, this Canadian cloud management company
provides a ‘predictive analytics’ engine. Based on cutting-edge
artificial intelligence research, Netuitive provides instant insight
into your entire cloud infrastructure, drawing data from thousands of
bots spread throughout your network. What’s more, it can learn patterns
in usage to predict and sort out incidents before they occur – saving
you time, money and energy.
Opscode
Seattle-based Opscode produce a wonderful engine called Chef. It’s designed to help your IT department write code to manage an externally-based cloud infrastructure. But, rather than leaving them to it, Chef supplies help in the form of a growing bunch of Cookbooks and Recipes from other coders in the Chef community. That is to say it will provide them with a go-to for templates – reusable snippets of code – that they can use to write a variety of administrative functions for your cloud system.
Alfabet
The final company on this list hails from Massachusetts. With PlanningIT, a suite of tools designed to help with the planning and managing any IT system – Alfabet make short work of what has thus far been a bit of a guessing game for IT professionals. Resource and asset management have not become redundant concepts just because cloud computing has taken off. In fact, since networks are now being remotely managed, it’s more important than ever to get them right. But transitioning to cloud has left many IT managers nonplussed. Alfabet’s PlanningIT suite helps to demystify the process and break it down in a simple and visually comprehensible way.
Of course, none of these providers would be anything if their solutions didn’t mesh with existing products. None of them are pitched to displace the major cloud management providers, such as IBM and Dell. Rather, they are meant to complement them, and provide additional routes in to cloud management that would otherwise be unavailable. So, bear in mind that these additional functionalities require a compatibility layer of cloud service provision – and are not aimed at replacing it.
Opscode
Seattle-based Opscode produce a wonderful engine called Chef. It’s designed to help your IT department write code to manage an externally-based cloud infrastructure. But, rather than leaving them to it, Chef supplies help in the form of a growing bunch of Cookbooks and Recipes from other coders in the Chef community. That is to say it will provide them with a go-to for templates – reusable snippets of code – that they can use to write a variety of administrative functions for your cloud system.
Alfabet
The final company on this list hails from Massachusetts. With PlanningIT, a suite of tools designed to help with the planning and managing any IT system – Alfabet make short work of what has thus far been a bit of a guessing game for IT professionals. Resource and asset management have not become redundant concepts just because cloud computing has taken off. In fact, since networks are now being remotely managed, it’s more important than ever to get them right. But transitioning to cloud has left many IT managers nonplussed. Alfabet’s PlanningIT suite helps to demystify the process and break it down in a simple and visually comprehensible way.
Of course, none of these providers would be anything if their solutions didn’t mesh with existing products. None of them are pitched to displace the major cloud management providers, such as IBM and Dell. Rather, they are meant to complement them, and provide additional routes in to cloud management that would otherwise be unavailable. So, bear in mind that these additional functionalities require a compatibility layer of cloud service provision – and are not aimed at replacing it.
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