1. Cloud Management Platform

2. Objective : In this session we will be able to learn:
Cloud Management Platform
Evaluation Criteria & Weighting factors
Top Ten Competitors
Features to be considered

3. Cloud Management Platform
Everything IT is shifting to the cloud – and the rate of this shift is accelerating. Utilization of the right cloud management platform (CMP) will enable affordable, and efficient management of cloud assets.
Designed for:
Large enterprises looking for a solution to manage their private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
Hosted service providers looking to establish a foundation for providing cloud Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) to enterprise clients.
Any organization that wishes to bolster its infrastructure automation capabilities, bringing cloud-like management to multiple pools of consolidated and virtualized infrastructure.
Will help you:
Understand what’s new in the CMP market.
Evaluate prominent and trend-setting vendors and products against your enterprise needs.
Determine which products are most appropriate for particular use cases and scenarios.

4. Cloud Management Platforms criteria & weighting factors

5. Top Ten Competitors
Abiquo. Feature-rich, pure-play cloud vendor with broad hypervisor and hardware support targeting the enterprise.
CA Technologies. Combining its strong roots in systems management with application delivery-focused AppLogic (acquired from 3Tera), CA has a compelling cloud management solution.
Citrix. Shaped Cloud.com into the current open source-based Citrix Cloud Platform; a mature, production-ready, out-of-the box solution with applicability for both service providers and enterprises.
Eucalyptus. Mature open source cloud management vendor that has been providing cloud management to enterprises for over three years, with strong Amazon partnership as a standout.
Flexiant. With roots in the service provider market, Flexiant targets service providers in Europe, and has exceptional dashboard customization, and integrated billing capabilities.
InContinuum. A new entrant with impressive UI and an array of managerial tools for the cloud.
Microsoft. In line with this vendor’s relatively new focus on the cloud, System Center provides a complete solution with intuitive design and the full support of this tech behemoth.
OpenStack. This solution has lots of potential, yet is far from convenient for many organizations seeking a turn-key solution.
Virtustream. Delivering cloud solutions for organizations with stringent security and compliance requirements, Virtustream excels at deploying legacy and enterprise apps in the private, virtual private, and public cloud.
VMware. A juggernaut in the server virtualization space with majority market share, VMware offers a great solution for existing customers looking to capitalize on VMware’s ownership of the entire software defined data center.

6. Balance individual strengths to find the best fit for your enterprise

7. The Zones of the Landscape
Champions receive high scores for most evaluation criteria and offer excellent value. They have a strong market presence and are usually the trend setters for the industry.
Market Pillars are established players with very strong vendor credentials, but with more average product scores.
Innovators have demonstrated innovative product strengths that act as their competitive advantage in appealing to niche segments of the market.
Emerging Players are comparatively newer vendors who are starting to gain a foothold in the marketplace. They balance product and vendor attributes, though score lower relative to market Champions.

8. Features to be considered
Metering
To enable admin tracking of aggregate compute, network, and storage utilization.
Role-based Access
Customizable permissions-based access for different classes of users.
RESTful APIs
APIs based on the REST architecture to enable integration with third-party systems such as billing or CRM.
Private/Public Cloud Integration
Manage and migrate internal and eternal cloud resources seamlessly through a single interface

9. Advanced Features Performance Monitoring Showback & Chargeback
Provide visibility into & control over the performance of servers/VMs, network, storage
Showback & Chargeback
Vendor provides basic functionality for both showback and chargeback
Whitelabeling & Customizability
Control of the look and feel of admin/end-user portals for purpose of branding and optimization
Hypervisor Agnosticism
Manage VM guests on ESX, Hyper-V, KVM, Open Source Xen, and XenServer Hypervisors
AWS Integration
Support for APIs hooking into Amazon Web Services
Automatic Resource Scaling & Elasticity
Automated provisioning of VMs and supporting infrastructure components to handle fluctuating workloads
VM Templates
Library of VM images, which improves the ease of instantiating virtual machines
Advanced Systems Templates
Pre-stored libraries of entire system templates (e.g. prepackaged servers, VMs, applications, and supporting infrastructure)
Advanced Architecture Mapping
Intuitive, codeless, mapping interface for structuring how servers, other physical assets, and software are provisioned; simple drag-and-drop interface

11. Classification of CMP Target Customer
Cloud Management Platforms can be broadly classified based on:
Target Customer
Certain vendors cater primarily to the enterprise, some to service providers, and some to both

12. Classification of CMP (Contd..)
Open-source vs. Proprietary
An open source solution can require a different approach than a proprietary solution

13. Classification of CMP (Contd..)
Hypervisor Support
Ensure the solution supports your primary hypervisor infrastructure before making a cloud management investment

14. OpenStack

15. QUIZ What are considered under the Product Evaluation Criteria?
Strategy comes under which Evaluation Criteria?
Architecture comes under which Evaluation Criteria?
Which CMP comes under Emerging Player?
CMP can be broadly classified based on what parameters?
Name any vendor which supports hypervisor “Hyper-V”?
OpenStack supports which hypervisor(s)?
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