Cloud Management, Front and Center
For all the talk about the cloud altering information technology in ways never seen before, there is a striking commonality between the enterprise's approach to the cloud and to infrastructure developments of the past: The first instinct is to get it up and running followed by belated attempts to monitor and manage it.
Unfortunately, too many organizations envision the cloud merely as an extension of existing resources, and therefore subject to the same management infrastructure. But as tech writer Anne Lee points out, the dynamism of cloud environments can quickly overwhelm legacy management stacks, which are often built around the idea of dedicated system relationships and architecture constructs. With virtual and cloud instances coming and going to the tune of 100 per day in some organizations, the last thing you can rely on is a management system that requires a full reboot every time it needs to acknowledge new settings.
