Multi-cloud management: Challenges for tech, people, processes
Multi-cloud management options abound but selecting what you need is no easy task
Andy Jassy (AWS); Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Thomas Kurian (Google Cloud) Credit: AWS / Microsoft / Google Cloud
When it comes to managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments there are many options but no easy path nor lack of challenges.
While cloud computing has been around in some form for more than a decade, tools to manage its current enterprise iterations from private, on-premises, or public locations are still evolving at a rapid rate. Gartner says that more than 90 vendors including IBM and Red Hat, VMware, CloudBolt, Flexera, Scalr, Cisco, and Nutanix offer varying degrees of cloud-management capabilities.
While cloud computing has been around in some form for more than a decade, tools to manage its current enterprise iterations from private, on-premises, or public locations are still evolving at a rapid rate. Gartner says that more than 90 vendors including IBM/Red Hat, VMware, CloudBolt, Flexera, Scalr, Cisco, and Nutanix offer varying degrees of cloud-management capabilities.
While there are many options, organizations struggle to effectively manage a multi-cloud environment, said Roy Ritthaler, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware.
“With workloads deployed in multiple public clouds, multi-cloud Kubernetes, private cloud/data centers and edge locations, most organizations find it challenging to get a unified view of the health of their environments as well as manage costs, ensure security and improve operational governance while automating core processes,” Ritthaler said.