Cloud Computing Gets Real For The Enterprise
July 15, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Tom Groenfeldt.
Everyone knows how cloud computing works. You log onto Amazon Web Services, pick out the resources you want to use, enter your credit card and start working. But it’s not quite the same thing if you are a global bank planning to move key processes to a cloud environment. For starters, banks tend to be concerned about security and privacy, so many are initiating cloud systems on premises, tucked safely behind their firewalls.
And banks tend to have big, complex applications that may sprawl across numerous servers or even data centers. Managing a complex cloud environment is a task for specialists. Enter BMC with Cloud Lifecycle Manager (CLM) which helps firms develop Amazon-like cloud flexibility in-house. The company recently released CLM 4 for hybrid clouds that enforces IT compliance and change management policies across private and pubic cloud services…
It enables financial services companies to apply uniform PCI and SOX compliance rules to all workloads within a hybrid cloud environment…
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