One of the major issues while working in the cloud is managing your resources.
Why?
When you have your servers in your own data center, you can touch them, see them and count them. And of course you pay a lot of equity for them.
When migrating to the cloud your CapEx is finally zero, however, if you'll not manage your resources wisely, your OpEx will soon right and be larger than your old CapEx budget. Moreover, when working with a contractor (yes, your cloud computing provider is now your contractor), you should manage it as a contrator. meanning that you should monitor your resources and verify the service level.
Moreover, many cloud clients are soon will find themselves runing dozens of servers, which in enterprises usually require a significant effort including command and control systems, NOC, helpdesk and so on.
What should be my requirements?
So what can I do?
Well you have several options:
A. Develop your own managment consule based on the chosen cloud computing provider API, monitoring each server resources.
B. Use enterprise world command and control systems such as CA Unicenter, IBM Tivoli suite, HP OpenView suite, BMC or Microsoft.
C. Use cloud monitoring niche systems. The largest and most significant player in this field is RightScale which provides both monitoring and auto scaling service. Another new player in this market is cloudkick. This player backed by the VC botique Y Combinator, provides its monitoring, graphs and alerting system free of charge.
Bottom line:
Option A (Develop your own solution) is too tedious and will walk you out of your main course of business. Option B is nice, but most of these players are fouces in an on premise market, and it will take them time to get into the cloud market. Moreover, most cloud computing clients are start ups and SaaS providers, that these massive C&M systems will not fits their needs.
Option C in the current time seems to be the right one if you established your operations in the cloud. From our analysis cloudkick is a nice start for a free service, but there is way to go. For exmpale, it still missing the auto scalling feature (if my CPU is over 80%, provide me ASAP new EC2 instance). So our recommandations in the current is usign RightScale.
Keep Performing
Moshe Kaplan. RockeTier. The Performance and Cloud Experts.
Why?
When you have your servers in your own data center, you can touch them, see them and count them. And of course you pay a lot of equity for them.
When migrating to the cloud your CapEx is finally zero, however, if you'll not manage your resources wisely, your OpEx will soon right and be larger than your old CapEx budget. Moreover, when working with a contractor (yes, your cloud computing provider is now your contractor), you should manage it as a contrator. meanning that you should monitor your resources and verify the service level.
Moreover, many cloud clients are soon will find themselves runing dozens of servers, which in enterprises usually require a significant effort including command and control systems, NOC, helpdesk and so on.
What should be my requirements?
So what can I do?
Well you have several options:
A. Develop your own managment consule based on the chosen cloud computing provider API, monitoring each server resources.
B. Use enterprise world command and control systems such as CA Unicenter, IBM Tivoli suite, HP OpenView suite, BMC or Microsoft.
C. Use cloud monitoring niche systems. The largest and most significant player in this field is RightScale which provides both monitoring and auto scaling service. Another new player in this market is cloudkick. This player backed by the VC botique Y Combinator, provides its monitoring, graphs and alerting system free of charge.
Bottom line:
Option A (Develop your own solution) is too tedious and will walk you out of your main course of business. Option B is nice, but most of these players are fouces in an on premise market, and it will take them time to get into the cloud market. Moreover, most cloud computing clients are start ups and SaaS providers, that these massive C&M systems will not fits their needs.
Option C in the current time seems to be the right one if you established your operations in the cloud. From our analysis cloudkick is a nice start for a free service, but there is way to go. For exmpale, it still missing the auto scalling feature (if my CPU is over 80%, provide me ASAP new EC2 instance). So our recommandations in the current is usign RightScale.
Keep Performing
Moshe Kaplan. RockeTier. The Performance and Cloud Experts.
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