Top Cloud Management Trends: Adopt or Incur the Risk

January 21, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from CircleID. Author: David Eisner.

Your company can’t ignore cloud computing: Some kind of distributed-access model is now necessary to tap global markets, manage big data and get access to best-in-class software. But with increased cloud adoption comes the issue of management, since it’s no longer enough to simply spin up a cloud and hope for the best. Here are five of the top cloud management trends to watch this year — and the risks of opting out.

Standardization

According to a recent Cloud Tweaks article, there’s a growing need for cloud industry standards. Organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance and ISO are on the forefront of this standardization effort — through 2015, expect to see SLAs and other cloud contract start adopting this change by including "typical" language and clear-cut descriptions of service availability…

This shift toward standardization simplifies the cloud management process by providing a universal foundation regardless of service provider or cloud type. The risk of ignoring this trend? Getting out of sync with the market at large, meaning your company could be forced to deal with data portability issues or change providers altogether…

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