Multi-Cloud Environment Visibility & Control Using Monitoring & Observability
Gartner mentioned in the Hype Cycle of Cloud Security 2020 report that mature technology solutions for Enterprise Cloud Service Brokerage & Cloud Management Platforms are now available. The approach for CMP has started shifting from “Platform to Tools”. Enterprises are going to focus on the main requirements and then decide on the tool. This is and further going to be a challenging task for CMP players, hence they need to keep innovating to be meaningful and useful.
In Q3 of Year 2020, Gartner has rationalized the Cloud Management Platform wheel and replaced Monitoring & Analytics with “Monitoring & Observability”. A new term adopted “Observability”. With the increased adoption of multi-cloud, while consuming public cloud security and cost have been a prime concern of enterprises. Simple infrastructure monitoring and management in a fragmented manner is going to be an obsolete concept to manage governance issues arriving due to scale. In my opinion, the cross-functional attributes of the CMP wheel especially newly introduced AI, Governance and Brokerage will define Observability in multi-dimensional. Multi-Cloud adoption has introduced “Distributed Cloud” and we at Jamcracker continuously keeping our CMP tool applicability by developing an abstraction layer on top of monitoring infrastructure commonly used by Enterprise IT. The abstraction layer provides observability by giving meaningful insights, actionable; impose cloud vendor-specific and organization-specific policies to provide security and governance.