Best Cloud System For Your Company

When there are too many choices offered by the technology, it is highly confusing which one to adopt. The companies cannot afford ignoring all, since these are the stepping stones to the futuristic computing era. The companies cannot afford picking any one at random, since the offered services are much varied and specialized in their own respects. So, how do the businesses know which is the best fit for their Organizations in this ever-changing computing time?

When replacing the legacy systems, robust and flexible infrastructure including as-a-Service business tools is the requirement. The current options give the choice for converged or engineered systems which can be altered and tailored as per the Organizational demands, or the cloud-like scaling models which can enable the Organizations to be a part of much wider network offering scalability. Even, the companies looking for excellent affordability with the existing applications may consider public cloud services. With these 3 available choices, it is good to look into the strengths and weaknesses of each technology:

• Converged Or Engineered Systems:

The main focus of such systems is towards making the management activities easier. The existing computing systems are replaced by those with the fewer servers, which are converged for seamless administration. This reduces a lot of manpower. The IT units find it manageable to monitor a couple of servers more efficiently. Even the infrastructural costs for hardware purchase shrinks down significantly. But, there are high chances of heterogeneity in such systems. Since the engineering is implemented on the existing heterogeneous systems by different vendors, it is difficult to service a converged system when the need arises. Very often, the engineering which is made to suit the business operations gets incompatible to the technological up-gradation.

• Private Cloud System:

The private cloud system works best with the converged environment. However, it is practically implemented on the high-volume servers which are built with racks and rows. This is because the incremental resource addition in these servers is easier than in the converged systems. The separate storage and network offers the flexibility for an easy addition. The major drawback with this system is about the dependencies on physical systems. For example, if a storage system fails, the data stored on it pertaining to the virtual environment will be lost. Thus, there lays a dependency to back-up this data on some other physical storage medium.

• Public Cloud System:

If the cloud services are best utilized for Infrastructure, Platform or Software as a Service platform, there are close to null issues left to be dealt with. But, the biggest question lies about the right kind of service. IT team is responsible to check if the cloud provider misses on any major service. Any shortage of resources directly impacts the business users’ experiences and the performance in operational data output.

What Do The Organizations Do?

In reality, the organizations have a mix of all the above platforms for its operations. It introduces more issues. While there are software solutions looking to resolve the platform specific problems from end-to-end, it is difficult to implement the resolve for a hybrid mix of such platforms. From an end-user perspective, response time is important. It is vendor’s business to offer the uninterrupted connect with the highest possible speed. How? The business users do not care for. Thus, it is recommended to have a single platform, which can be monitored with perfection, and the management in turn gets easier.

What Should Management Software Do?

It works as an agent that takes care of the implemented platform service from end to end. This includes the monitoring of the established connections, reporting of any under-speed connection, resource utilization, network congestion and the problems if any. In short, the software typically can be characterized with the following features:

1. There must be several channels to resolve the issue. For example, for a congested network, the management software will be responsible to divert the data traffic to the low congested network. Alternatively, some of the load may be transferred to another virtual machine which can enhance the response time. As another resort, the management software may look into shifting the storage that creates more speed for processing. Thus, for a single problem, there should be multiple solutions.
2. The existing system vendors are currently trying to have their products address the management issue. In parallel, there are data center infrastructure vendors who are adding monitoring and management facilities to their data centers. The business must take a decision on which one suits it the best.
   

The recommended vendors in the current market include major players like CA Technologies, IBM and BMC Software.