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IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by cloud, infrastructure operations, and architecture to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated…
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TRiA Cloud Management, from Connectria in St.Louis is designed to provide administrators with everything needed to optimize spend, manage performance, and ensure continuous security & compliance of hybrid and multi-cloud architecture.
ProvisionPoint 365 is a Workspace Governance tool for Microsoft 365. A turnkey SaaS offering, ProvisionPoint 365 helps users and administrators of Microsoft 365 set up and manage governance right from the start of their journey. Built on 3 pillars of workspace governance; provisioning,…
Hybr is a Hybrid Cloud Management Platform that automates cross-cloud integration with a multi-tenant portal experience that enables users to provision and manage IaaS VMs across VMware vCenter, System Center/Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack, AWS, etc. Automate workloads,…
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The Virtana Platform, from Virtana (formerly Virtual Instruments) is a SaaS multi-cloud management platform, that enables users to migrate and optimize across hybrid, public, and private cloud environments. A modular hybrid-cloud infrastructure optimization platform, it collects…
Juniper Sky Enterprise is designed to make cloud network management simple and quick for IT teams of all sizes and experience levels deploying Juniper switching and security devices, and to make it easier than ever to use cloud-managed switches and cloud-managed firewalls.
Support My Cloud helps businesses to place their software on multiple clouds by scaling marketplace operations and provides a streamlined approach to sound listing and effective reporting. Its prime features include: Marketplace Insights: The solution enables users to take proper…
OpSmart™ Cloud Management is utilized for managing the entire virtualization deployments and management across all your Clouds whether Public, Private or Hybrid through a simple User Interface. OpSmart™ Cloud Management supports AWS, OpenStack and VMware.
CGI Unify360 is a cloud management application and service, and may include managed security and cloud consulting, as well as application portfolio management.
StoneFly Cloud gateway is a cloud management tool. Users can choose their cloud and datacenter and transfer from Terabytes to Petabytes of data. StoneFly Cloud gateway aims to meet users' unique data transfer needs and get data on the cloud quickly and securely. Organizations can…
Unitas Atlas is a hybrid cloud and system monitoring solution provided as a standalone service or available as an add-on for customers of Unitas Global's infrastructural services.
Jamcracker Hybrid Cloud Management appliance integrates the disparate cloud environments and allows you to control your cloud resources with purpose built automation, orchestration, policy enforcement, and management tools. With an easy to install and manage virtual appliance, Jamcracker…
Virtustream, a Dell Technologies company headquartered in New York, offers xStream, a cloud resource management application providing deployment and provisioning management over cloud resources with operational and administrative support features.
CloudIO, a Xoriant company, provides a common platform for producing and delivering enterprise applications, reports & dashboards that are actionable, real-time & collaborative across multiple devices. CloudIO gives business users a UX built for improved productivity by extending…
A solution to help users extend group management possibilities in Azure AD with DynamicGroupSync. As a native cloud service, DynamicGroupSync specializes in dynamic and automatic group synchronizations in the cloud. DynamicGroupSync allows:the synchronization of Azure AD (AAD) groups…
Tencent Cloud Monitor (CM) enables users to monitor and manage cloud products as well as configure and visualize custom monitoring metrics. Leveraging its three-dimensional, intelligent, real-time and personalized monitoring services, CM allows users to accurately understand the…
Silk is presented as a database supercharger that delivers game-changing database performance without changing underlying apps or database infrastructure, whether the user is running real-time transactional workloads or analytical workloads, by the company of the same name headquartered…
Huawei's Cloud Eye is a multi-dimensional resource monitoring service that can be used to monitor resources, set alarm rules, and improve resource utilization and performance. It is available at no cost.
SWAZM is a multi cloud and cross-cloud management platform, designed to make services easy to manage, deploy and monitor, backed by an AI based Web Application Firewall. https://swazm.com/…
Contrail Cloud from Juniper Networks is described by the vendor as an advanced telco cloud platform engineered to help service providers design, implement, and operate more agile and automated network infrastructures. Incorporating Juniper’s proven industry expertise in both service…
SurPaaS is the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution from Corent Technology in California. A key feature is its "SaaSify" capabilities designed for developers who would like to turn applications into software-as-a-service without any re-engineering.
The Ensim Automation Suite was a cloud management platform acquired by Ingram Micro with the Ensim Corporation in April 2016. It is no longer available.
Kumolus provides a cloud management dashboard, that integrates with key platforms (like Chef and Puppet) and is designed to enable users to quickly begin using AWS to enforce best cloud practices. Kumolus also provides a visual interface that allows users to scale and automate their…
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What is a Cloud Management Platform?
A cloud management suite is focused on providing information about cloud computing systems. These tools provide a degree of administrative control over public, private, and hybrid clouds. Cloud management suites provide businesses with scalability and flexibility over their cloud environments.
A cloud management suite operates above your infrastructure to automatically run and organize your operations and infrastructure. The purpose of the cloud management suite is to gather a business’ tools, operations, and services and bundle them into an all-in-one operation in the business environment.
The benefit of cloud management platforms is that they provide self-service capabilities to users who wish to access a public or private cloud, review available cloud instances, or create new ones.
For businesses, cloud management suites provide three key components: self-service capabilities, automated workflow, and cloud analysis. Cloud management platforms give businesses a common view across all of their cloud resources which allows them to monitor internal and external cloud services.
Cloud management tools have become increasingly important as IT tries to balance security, compliance, and budgetary concerns with the business innovation brought about by self-service provisioning of so-called shadow IT. With a transparent view of all cloud services within the business, organizations are able to effectively and efficiently monitor all their data, information, and services from one centralized platform.
Cloud Management Platforms Features & Capabilities
For businesses, cloud management suites provide a variety of features and capabilities. These are the most common across platforms:
- Support for different cloud types, such as public, private, and hybrid clouds
- Support for creation and provisioning of new objects and the removal of unnecessary objects, like servers, storage, and/or apps.
- Reports on uptime, response time, latency, etc. with a drill-down dashboard
- Ability to monitor whole networks or individual VM’s
- Ability to monitor security and regulation compliance of data and services such as audits and service level agreements
- Data protection and encryption
Cloud Management Platform Comparison
When shopping for cloud management suites, businesses should consider the following aspects:
Automation Capabilities: How well can the cloud management platform automate workflows and lower human intervention? For businesses, cutting costs is the most important. If business operations can be automated and don’t need human oversight, they’ll want a cloud management package that automates and maintains as much of their data and services as possible.
Pricing Models: How many features and services is the business looking for? Cheaper cloud management suites provide less support and automation, while more expensive models offer more. If a business operates on a large scale with many repetitive daily operations, a more expensive model with more features and automation may better fit its needs. While a smaller business tends to run a smaller operation with less needs and lower budgets, it would benefit from a cheaper and more hands on software.
Scalability: How well can the cloud management platform scale up or down depending on the business's needs? If a business has a certain period where data and service volumes for data and operations, it’ll want the ability to be sized up for those larger flows of operation, but during slower times it’ll also want the ability to scale down.
Ease of Use: How well does the platform integrate with other operating systems and programs businesses’ are working with? Businesses may utilize many different operating systems such as Windows and Linux. The ability to integrate a CMS into these different platforms can be an important factor for many medium to large businesses.
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Pricing Information
Many cloud management suites are priced based on a percentage of spend or charge you a variable per-VM fee. Some other vendors charge a per-year flat-fee pricing based only on your public cloud spend. SMB systems typically cost between $25 to $7,000 / year, and there are also some open-source systems available. The large variance between pricing factors in size of cloud management suites services, support features, and integration capabilities. Enterprise systems start in the region of $25,000 / year and can scale to $100,000 or more depending on the number of VMs. Most vendors will also provide a trial period to test their services as well before committing to a