Around the world, due to security and cost considerations, choosing multi-cloud has become the main form of cloud for customers. According to the RightScale report in 2019, 84% of large and medium-sized enterprises (more than 1000 employees) adopt multi-cloud strategy, among which 58% choose hybrid cloud (public cloud + private cloud), 17% choose multiple public cloud, and 9% choose multiple private cloud. When the multi-cloud strategy is accepted by more and more customers, multi-cloud management platform will become the core of IT management.
What is the multi-cloud management platform?
First, let’s take a look at the definition of Cloud Management Platform, which comes from Gartner, an authoritative international research institution. “Cloud Management Platform (CMP) is a product that provides unified integrated Management of public Cloud, private Cloud and hybrid Cloud. The main capabilities of the cloud management platform include unified management and scheduling of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments, providing system images, metering and billing, and optimizing workloads with defined policies. More advanced products can also be integrated with external enterprise management systems, including service catalogs, support the configuration of storage and network resources, allow for enhanced resource management through service governance, and provide advanced monitoring to improve performance and availability.”
At present I contact more is the so-called multi-cloud management platform generally refers to “multiple cloud resource management platform”. At present, the most commonly used public clouds in China are: Ali Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei cloud, JINGdong Cloud, Baidu Cloud, UCloud, Birdie cloud, etc. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on are the most used abroad. Simply to understand the multi-cloud management platform is to be able to manage the above multiple cloud resources on a platform.
Ii. What can a multi-cloud management platform do?
Multi-cloud management platform to achieve multi-cloud management. The platform of mainstream cloud service providers can be compatible. As a self-service portal for users, users can operate multiple resource pools of different cloud platforms at one point.
The second is to achieve intelligent operation and maintenance. Multi-cloud management platform can provide customers with different cloud platform monitoring, it is best to provide cloud, network, terminal integration monitoring services. Users can learn about the overall operating status and control the troubleshooting process and results.
In addition, from the perspective of cloud service providers, the multi-cloud management platform should still be an operation platform. IT can realize billing, resource management, operation analysis and other functions, and even provide open interfaces for customers to connect with internal IT systems.
Iii. What is the value of multi-cloud management platform?
Simplify cloud management. Unified portal, unified business process.
Improve operation and maintenance efficiency. Improve resource delivery efficiency and troubleshooting efficiency.
Reduce costs. For example, through cloud combinations with different cost performance ratios.
Improve resource utilization. Analyze resource usage and give optimization suggestions in time.
Iv. What are the multi-cloud management platforms?
1. (Cloud Helper)
It supports all mainstream public cloud vendors, private cloud facilities such as OpenStack and VMware, physical servers, and VMS to achieve multi-cloud management and hybrid management. In a multi-cloud environment, you can visually monitor cloud resource management, system running status, and task execution, and provide various alarm mechanisms to help customers handle tasks quickly. Comprehensive automation support (inspection, monitoring, protection, audit, etc.) can reduce the complicated and boring operation and maintenance costs of IT operation and maintenance personnel. By setting alarm policies and log auditing, Cloud Helper can quickly locate faults and realize unattended automatic operation and maintenance. It can support PC, mobile and other management terminals, which means that enterprise cloud platform operation and maintenance managers only need a computer or mobile phone to easily complete the daily management of cloud resources, and truly achieve efficient and efficient operation and maintenance management anytime and anywhere.
Advantages: completely free, powerful, multi-terminal application scenarios, including :Windows PC, Mac PC, Android mobile terminal, Ios mobile terminal
Disadvantages: The software application support is not enough, the WEB terminal is not online
2. (Xingyun Butler)
Cloud housekeeper support for all major cloud vendors at home and abroad, natural and housekeeper both out-of-the-box SaaS platform, there are also private standard edition, enterprise edition, etc., in the form of deployment have very flexible ladder quotation, from the basis of the free version to the ultimate use of large enterprise, support on a monthly basis, yearly purchase, severance, etc. Enterprises can choose the corresponding version and payment mode according to their actual situation, and control the cost within a reasonable range; Xingyun Manager always releases a new version every month on average. Once users’ needs are evaluated and considered reasonable and universal, they can be satisfied in one to two months on average, which is very rare in the enterprise software market.
Advantages: Faster product iteration and more versions to choose
Disadvantages: the fee is relatively expensive, the function is scattered in different products, users need to download multiple products to carry out comprehensive management
3, (CMPlite)
Positioning: lightweight multi-cloud management platform
Cloud host resource management: You can manage cloud host resources of different vendors under multiple accounts without repeatedly switching between different interfaces or consoles. At the same time, you can switch to the console of cloud vendors. (Currently only Amazon cloud and Ali Cloud are supported)
Billing management: Manage multi-cloud billing, capture each order and its charges in real time and clear
Resource Overview: A single page provides an overview of cloud assets, regional distribution, and security
Management operations: Single sign-on to the console of the cloud vendor and can be performed directly
Pros: Free, lightweight, simple interface
Disadvantages: In the initial stage, the function is not perfect enough, only the WEB side, can only manage Amazon cloud and Ali cloud