Cloud Management Tools

Cloud management refers to the processes, tools, and resources that IT teams use to control, manage, and maintain a company’s complex cloud computing infrastructure and services, from a centralized system. Cloud management includes public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments and helps organizations securely manage, organize, and deliver cloud services to authorized users.

The overall goal of cloud management is to effectively oversee and control resources delivered by cloud computing vendors, and ensure that they meet an organization's business needs - all while maintaining a high level of security and compliance with cloud computing regulations and standards.

Key Features and Capabilities of Cloud Management Tools

• Provisioning: Cloud management tools help enterprise IT teams create, change, and remove cloud computing resources, and manage provisioning workflows for access and operation.
• Requests: Cloud management platforms enable IT professionals to gather internal user requests, grant access to cloud services, and deploy cloud services across the organization.
• Monitoring: Cloud management helps IT teams monitor cloud service performance and availability with metrics that prevent incidents and support automated incident resolution.
• Inventory Management: Cloud management tools help IT teams manage an inventory of cloud resources and services with discovery, change monitoring, and configuration management.
• Cost Management & Resource Allocation: Cloud management includes tools for tracking and optimizing ongoing costs, identifying waste, and providing the insight necessary to allocate resources efficiently based on workloads and cloud service demand.
• Data Replication & Migration: Cloud management involves replicating data to facilitate workload migration, ensure business continuity, support disaster recovery architectures, and safeguard data to prevent malicious activities or accidental deletions.
• Vendor Management: Cloud management provides tools that help organizations manage relationships with cloud service providers, negotiate contracts, and ensure that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met.
• Disaster Recovery and Backup: Cloud management helps companies ensure that data and applications can be quickly restored when failures or disasters occur, which minimizes downtime and data loss.
• Cloud Security: Leading cloud management vendors offer inbuilt cloud security tools to help organizations manage and secure access to cloud services, and protect cloud applications from unauthorized access, breaches, and other security threats.
• Compliance: Cloud management helps companies ensure that their use of cloud services complies with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Packaging: Cloud management provides IT teams with packaging tools and resources needed to securely and efficiently deliver cloud applications and functionality to end users.