While cloud computing has been around in some form for more than a decade, tools to manage its current enterprise iterations from private, on-premises, or public locations are still evolving at a rapid rate. Gartner says that more than 90 vendors including IBM/Red Hat, VMware, CloudBolt, Flexera, Scalr, Cisco, and Nutanix offer varying degrees of cloud-management capabilities.
While there are many options, organizations struggle to effectively manage a multi-cloud environment, said Roy Ritthaler, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware.
“With workloads deployed in multiple public clouds, multi-cloud Kubernetes, private cloud/data centers and edge locations, most organizations find it challenging to get a unified view of the health of their environments as well as manage costs, ensure security and improve operational governance while automating core processes,” Ritthaler said.
Revolutionize how you manage application resources across any environment
The business, application and infrastructure landscape has been changing rapidly over the last few years and even faster this year. Gone are the days where a handful of monolithic applications were running in a single datacenter fully managed by a central team – simpler days. IT teams are now required to use a diverse set of environments, distributed technologies, architectures, platforms and tools to manage the critical IT resources required to keep their apps running no matter where they reside.
The job of managing all this complexity around how user experiences are delivered through applications is now beyond human scale and has big implications for IT teams and businesses including; application performance issues, time wasted in war rooms and fighting fires, underutilized infrastructure, public cloud overprovisioning, and cost overruns.