The tipping point for cloud management is nigh

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Businesses typically don’t think too much about managing IT resources until they become too numerous and cumbersome to deal with on an ad hoc basis — a point many companies will soon hit in their adoption of cloud computing.

As enterprises continue to use IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) cloud services to solve pressing business problems, the number of cloud services used will continue to grow. Although dozens of services are relatively easy to track, many companies are quickly using hundreds or even thousands of services. This means they’re approaching a tipping point where the number of services used exceeds IT’s ability to manage them manually…

At some point, companies have to get serious about how they’ll manage these cloud services, including monitoring use, uptime, security, governance, and compliance with SLAs.

Of course, they should have tackled these before adopting those cloud services, but that’s not how most people think. As a result, you’ll have to retrofit a cloud services management strategy and technology on the fly. It’s kind of like changing tires on an 18-wheeler as you’re hurtling down the road…

Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/the-tipping-point-cloud-management-nigh-202542