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Cast AI is an automation platform for operating cloud-native and AI infrastructure at scale. It keeps applications fast and stable by continuously optimizing production systems and eliminating manual operations as environments scale.
Compute Engine is Google's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform for organizations to create and run cloud-based virtual machines.
Average Rating: 4.5/5.0
Total Reviews: 876
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Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— ANUJ J.
"Easy Setup, Flexible Instances, and Great Value on Google Compute Engine"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Matthew C.
Flexera One is a SaaS-based IT management solution designed with and for organizations like yours with highly complex hybrid environments. With Flexera One, you can visualize your entire estate and make data-driven decisions from on-premise to SaaS to the cloud. IT Visibility Flexera One’s IT Visibility solution delivers the most comprehensive and clear view of your IT estate. Discovery and normalization—gain consistent, reliable data and take control of assets to draw valuable insights across software, hardware, SaaS and cloud. Data enrichment—enhance your IT inventory data with market intelligence that improves your decision-making abilities, via Technopedia—the largest and most trusted IT asset information source in the world. Unified data visualization—simplify the view of your environment with clear understanding and analytic that provide context for business initiatives spanning your entire IT estate. IT Asset Management Flexera One’s IT asset management (ITAM) starts with knowing what you have in your IT ecosystem—across hardware, software, SaaS, cloud, containers, clusters and virtual technologies. Optimized for today’s digital business, find the evidence required to determine license consumption, such as IBM sub-capacity requirements. Software asset management— Flexera One is the only SAM solution to solve the exponentiality of licensing with depth, breadth, algorithms and automation required to truly create a trusted and accurate license position. Hardware asset management— manage the hardware you own or lease, no matter where it is. Make critical hardware lifecycle decisions to support user productivity, business continuity and make the most of your hardware investments. SaaS management— get a current and complete picture of SaaS usage to support your business stakeholders while optimizing SaaS spend with all your vendors. Take action by discovering shadow SaaS, removing redundant applications and optimizing subscriptions based on actual usage automatically. Software request and reharvest— proactively reduce the sprawl and provide end users with a catalog of approved software, SaaS and cloud instances–helping you get them within guard rails while enabling the business to be agile and innovative. Reclaim unused technology to avoid future costs. Integrate with ITSM providers so you can meet users where they are and provide a seamless end-user experience. Cloud Cost Optimization Flexera One offers a unique approach to cloud cost optimization that enables cloud governance teams to work collaboratively with business units and cloud resource owners to optimize spend. With Flexera One, you get a comprehensive set of cloud cost optimization capabilities designed to easily reduce costs across your entire cloud environment. Cloud Cost Management— Get visibility into cloud usage and costs for all your cloud accounts. You can evaluate and report on your most cost-effective regions and instance sizes, and dive deep into public and private cloud costs by application, category, business unit, cost center, department or team. You also can allocate costs for chargeback and showback with complete backup and justification. Cloud Governance— Flexera One offers a powerful policies engine that enables your cloud governance teams to manage and control hybrid cloud use with out-of-the-box and custom policies to automate governance of costs, operations, security and compliance. Cloud Migration and Modernization Successful IT modernization requires proper analysis, prioritization and planning. Flexera One’s Cloud Migration and Modernization provides the actionable intelligence you need to optimize your cloud modernization and migration—no matter where you are on your cloud journey. Cloud Migration Planning— Flexera one gives you the actionable intelligence needed to optimize your on-premises to cloud migration journey from start to finish with full context visibility into business services. Cloud Cost Assessment — Flexera One provides comprehensive workload assessments to show you which cloud type, provider, custom instance choice, buying type and resource provisioning are best for your workload, budget and performance requirements—all to optimize your cloud cost savings. Workload Placement — Cloud migration and modernization provides comprehensive workload assessments for full visibility into your current workloads, so you can prioritize and identify which providers are best for your performance requirements to ensure successful migration of workloads to the cloud.
Average Rating: 4.3/5.0
Total Reviews: 155
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"Potente personalizzazione con Power BI e dashboard guidate dall'IA"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Varalakshmi G.
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Harish A.
Ubuntu è il sistema operativo Linux creato per tutti. Sfrutta la libertà e la creatività dell'open source, dai laptop e workstation ai server e dispositivi IoT. Pubblicato da Canonical, Ubuntu ti offre il meglio dell'open source, supportato da garanzie di livello aziendale. Ubuntu offre un'esperienza unificata e stabile. Ubuntu funge da piattaforma interoperabile, dal desktop al bordo. Ovunque tu innovi, puoi aspettarti alte prestazioni e lo stesso ricco ecosistema di strumenti. Attraverso la comunità e la collaborazione, ci assicuriamo che Ubuntu sia sempre all'avanguardia. I contributori open source lavorano per garantire che le ultime applicazioni, strumenti e librerie abbiano una casa nell'ecosistema Ubuntu. I nostri partner hardware, come Dell, Lenovo, HP, IBM e NVIDIA, collaborano con noi per certificare Ubuntu pronto all'uso sui più recenti schede, dispositivi e chipset, attraverso una serie di oltre 500 test di compatibilità del sistema operativo per dispositivo. Quando arriva il momento di scalare, Ubuntu fornisce integrazioni per rendere la gestione dei dispositivi gestibile. Applica protocolli di gestione dell'identità rigorosi con supporto per Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID e Google Cloud platform, attraverso il broker AuthD di Ubuntu. Il regolare ritmo di rilascio di Ubuntu ti consente di pianificare in anticipo con fiducia. In tutto il tuo stack, le versioni LTS (supporto a lungo termine) di Ubuntu ricevono 5 anni di patch e manutenzione come standard. Ulteriore supporto di livello aziendale è fornito attraverso Ubuntu Pro - l'abbonamento completo di Canonical per la sicurezza open source. Ubuntu Pro espande la patching e la manutenzione della sicurezza fino a 12 anni e include strumenti per il rafforzamento e la conformità, permettendoti di stare al passo con le CVE, minimizzare i tempi di inattività e soddisfare i tuoi requisiti normativi. Questo include supporto per framework come FIPS, DISA STIG, NIST e il Cyber Resilience Act.
Average Rating: 4.5/5.0
Total Reviews: 2,349
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"Ubuntu: Flessibile, gratuito e perfetto per imparare la programmazione"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Andrey S.
"Stabile, personalizzabile e ottimo per lo sviluppo—Ubuntu offre"
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Muhammed A.
Cast AI is an automation platform for operating cloud-native and AI infrastructure at scale. It keeps applications fast and stable by continuously optimizing production systems and eliminating manual operations as environments scale.
Average Rating: 4.6/5.0
Total Reviews: 207
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"Automated Kubernetes Optimization with Clear Cost Visibility and Real Savings"
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Ankit K.
"Stop Overpaying for Kubernetes! This One Tool Changed How We Manage K8s"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Hruthik G.
CloudKeeper è l'unico partner di ottimizzazione dei costi AI e Cloud orientato ai risultati, costruito per le organizzazioni cloud in rapida crescita. Forniamo risparmi sui costi garantiti e continui su tutto il tuo patrimonio cloud e AI - combinando una comprovata esperienza in FinOps, piattaforme di ottimizzazione proprietarie ed esecuzione pratica per guidare risultati finanziari misurabili su larga scala. Con oltre 15 anni di esperienza nell'ottimizzazione dei costi cloud, CloudKeeper ha aiutato più di 400 aziende globali a ridurre la spesa per cloud e AI di una media del 20% su AWS, Microsoft Azure e Google Cloud. A differenza dei modelli di coinvolgimento tradizionali, forniamo risparmi continui attraverso un modello basato sui risultati - senza costi iniziali e senza impegni a lungo termine.
Average Rating: 4.7/5.0
Total Reviews: 314
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Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Dhirendra K.
"Eccellente visibilità del cloud e controllo dei costi resi facili"
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Sachin B.
SAP Business Data Cloud è una soluzione software-as-a-service (SaaS) completamente gestita che unifica e governa i dati SAP e si connette con dati di terze parti. Come evoluzione delle soluzioni di dati, pianificazione e analisi dell'azienda, SAP Business Data Cloud riunisce SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud e SAP Business Warehouse con un'esperienza unificata che fornisce approfondimenti su tutte le linee di business. Inoltre, SAP Databricks è nativamente disponibile in Business Data Cloud, portando la potenza delle capacità della piattaforma Databricks Data Intelligence al prodotto. SAP Business Data Cloud connette i dati sfruttando i principi del business data fabric, rendendo più facile scoprire, condividere, governare e modellare questi dati. Include SAP Databricks come servizio dati di prima parte. La piattaforma combina applicazioni predefinite e prodotti di dati su tutte le linee di business. Fornisce prodotti di dati completamente gestiti e curati su tutte le linee di business ed elimina i costi degli estratti di dati. Gli utenti possono costruire sui prodotti di dati curati di SAP con la loro esperienza di dominio e fornire Applicazioni Intelligenti attraverso l'ecosistema Business Data Cloud. Queste applicazioni intelligenti sono applicazioni adattive, alimentate dall'IA, che apprendono dai tuoi dati, comprendono il contesto aziendale e agiscono per tuo conto per trasformare i risultati aziendali.
Average Rating: 4.2/5.0
Total Reviews: 75
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"Unifica i dati SAP e non-SAP"
Rating: 4.0/5.0 stars
— Maria Francesca I.
"Gestione centralizzata dei dati con interfaccia utente intuitiva"
Rating: 4.0/5.0 stars
— Tejas Kumar V.
AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that leverages machine learning to analyze the configuration and utilization metrics of your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon ECS services on Fargate. It provides actionable recommendations to help you rightsize your resources, enhancing performance and reducing costs by up to 25%. By evaluating your workload patterns, Compute Optimizer identifies under-provisioned or over-provisioned resources and suggests optimal configurations to meet your performance and capacity requirements. Key Features and Functionality: - Rightsizing Recommendations: Offers tailored suggestions to adjust resource sizes based on your specific workload preferences, ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency. - Performance Issue Resolution: Identifies under-provisioned resources and provides recommendations to address potential performance bottlenecks. - Enhanced Savings with Memory Metrics: By enabling Amazon CloudWatch metrics, Compute Optimizer increases visibility into memory utilization, leading to more accurate recommendations and potential cost savings. - License Optimization: Provides automated recommendations to optimize licensing costs for commercial software, such as Microsoft SQL Server, by suggesting appropriate licensing options. - Idle Resource Management: Detects and recommends the cleanup of unused resources, helping to reduce unnecessary cloud spending. Primary Value and Problem Solved: AWS Compute Optimizer addresses the challenge of balancing performance and cost in cloud resource management. By analyzing historical utilization data and applying machine learning algorithms, it delivers personalized recommendations that help users: - Reduce Costs: Identify and eliminate over-provisioned resources, leading to significant cost savings. - Enhance Performance: Resolve performance issues by right-sizing under-provisioned resources to meet workload demands. - Simplify Resource Management: Automate the analysis of resource utilization, reducing the need for manual monitoring and adjustments. In essence, AWS Compute Optimizer empowers users to make informed decisions about their AWS resource configurations, ensuring optimal performance while minimizing costs.
Average Rating: 4.4/5.0
Total Reviews: 17
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Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Abishek M.
"Clear, Actionable Recommendations for Smarter AWS Resource Optimization"
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Atharva P.
Rubrik is the leading cyber resilience and data protection company with a mission to secure the world’s data. Rubrik pioneered Zero Trust Data SecurityTM to help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, built with a Zero Trust design and powered by machine learning, delivers complete cyber resilience in a single platform across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS. Rubrik’s platform automates data policy management and enforcement, safeguards sensitive data, delivers data threat analytics and response, and orchestrates rapid cyber and operational recovery.
Average Rating: 4.5/5.0
Total Reviews: 283
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"Evaluating Rubrik for Enterprise Data Protection"
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Rayanne A.
"Reliable and User-Friendly Backup Solution"
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Aditi S.
IBM Cloudability è progettato per supportare l'adozione organizzativa di FinOps—la pratica culturale e il processo operativo di portare responsabilità finanziaria alla natura scalabile, variabile e distribuita del cloud e dei costi correlati. Le sue funzionalità FinOps di livello enterprise consentono ai team IT, finanziari e aziendali di ottimizzare i costi del cloud, dell'IA e di Kubernetes e di comunicare il valore aziendale di questi investimenti. Cloudability normalizza e struttura i dati di fatturazione e utilizzo provenienti da ecosistemi cloud pubblici. Il suo robusto set di capacità consente ai team di: • Allocare completamente la spesa cloud, inclusi i costi relativi ai container e all'IA, e supportare le spese—abilitando il chargeback in tutta l'azienda e miglioramenti continui all'economia unitaria del cloud • Stimare i costi dei carichi di lavoro, costruire budget e creare previsioni basate su driver che evidenziano i dettagli delle variazioni mentre si traccia la spesa rispetto al piano • Ottimizzare automaticamente i costi del cloud tramite raccomandazioni di dimensionamento e impegno leader del settore, permettendoti di ridurre le spese operative e finanziare investimenti futuri in innovazione • Prendere decisioni con velocità e fiducia, alimentate dalla proprietà del team della spesa cloud • Allocare i costi condivisi, come tecnologia specializzata, lavoro e fornitori, per estendere FinOps e la responsabilità al costo totale di gestione del cloud • Supportare le organizzazioni FinOps nelle agenzie federali tramite IBM Cloudability autorizzato FedRAMP per gli Stati Uniti • Consentire ai fornitori di servizi gestiti di ingerire, strutturare e personalizzare i dati di fatturazione tramite IBM Cloudability MSP Cloudability fornisce ai professionisti le capacità di cui hanno bisogno per far avanzare FinOps—con responsabilità finanziaria, spesa cloud ottimizzata e una roadmap per la maturità di FinOps. Con oltre 10 anni di esperienza e innovazione accumulata, Cloudability è il pioniere di categoria e leader di mercato dedicato ad aiutarti a eccellere in FinOps.
Average Rating: 4.2/5.0
Total Reviews: 211
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"Efficace per l'ottimizzazione dei costi del cloud, piccoli ostacoli"
Rating: 4.0/5.0 stars
— anirban c.
"Visibilità granulare e facilità d'uso, ma l'installazione può migliorare"
Rating: 4.0/5.0 stars
— Raghav M.
PointFive ridefinisce l'efficienza dell'IA e del cloud con un sistema operativo che abbraccia il cloud e gli agenti di codifica.
Average Rating: 4.9/5.0
Total Reviews: 32
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"Potenzia la visibilità dei costi, necessita di una rifinitura dell'interfaccia utente"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Darcy A.
"Potenti, Connessi Approfondimenti per Risparmi, Inventario e Flusso di Lavoro"
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Vijay Kumar V.
Cloudshot è una piattaforma brevettata di gestione visiva del cloud che aiuta le imprese a ottenere completa visibilità, governance e controllo sulle loro spese cloud e IT. Progettato per organizzazioni che operano in ambienti complessi, Cloudshot offre visibilità nella gestione multi-cloud su AWS, Azure, GCP e configurazioni ibride attraverso un approccio intuitivo e visivo. A differenza degli strumenti tradizionali che si basano su dati grezzi, script o dashboard frammentati, Cloudshot rappresenta visivamente gli ambienti cloud, permettendo ai team di comprendere architettura, dipendenze, rischi e costi a colpo d'occhio. Questo riduce la complessità operativa e accelera il processo decisionale tra i team di ingegneria, sicurezza e finanza. Cloudshot riunisce DevOps, SecOps, FinOps e Sostenibilità sotto un unico ombrello. I team DevOps beneficiano di una comprensione più rapida dell'ambiente e di approfondimenti sull'infrastruttura, i team SecOps ottengono una visibilità continua della postura di sicurezza e delle deviazioni, e i team FinOps ricevono dati di costo e ottimizzazione accurati e pronti per l'allocazione. La sostenibilità è integrata nativamente nella piattaforma, aiutando le organizzazioni a ottimizzare i costi riducendo l'impatto ambientale. Cloudshot si allinea strettamente con il framework della FinOps Foundation ed è uno strumento ufficialmente compatibile con FOCUS, supportando la FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). Questo assicura dati di costo e utilizzo standardizzati, portabili e indipendenti dal fornitore su piattaforme cloud, permettendo alle imprese di scalare le pratiche FinOps con fiducia e coerenza. Oltre all'infrastruttura cloud, Cloudshot fornisce una dashboard unificata delle spese IT che consolida i costi multi-cloud, l'uso del marketplace cloud, le spese SaaS e i servizi IT condivisi in una visione unica e coerente. Questo permette ai team di leadership di comprendere la vera spesa tecnologica, migliorare la responsabilità e allineare gli investimenti IT con i risultati aziendali. I clienti aziendali che utilizzano Cloudshot tipicamente raggiungono risparmi dal 10% al 35% sulla loro spesa cloud attraverso l'ottimizzazione continua, l'eliminazione degli sprechi e il miglioramento della governance. Combinando tecnologia brevettata, gestione visiva del cloud e visibilità delle spese allineata a FOCUS, Cloudshot permette alle imprese di passare dal controllo dei costi reattivo a una gestione proattiva e strategica del loro ecosistema IT.
Average Rating: 4.9/5.0
Total Reviews: 60
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"Ottimo strumento, altamente raccomandato"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Natasha B.
"Facile da usare, visualizzazioni multi-cloud e funzionalità operative."
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Pratik K.
DoiT Cloud Intelligence is the only intent-aware FinOps platform that goes beyond cost optimization to drive reliability, performance, and security – turning endless "good ideas" into real, implemented solutions at scale – ensuring teams are 10X more likely to achieve business outcomes than with any other solution.
Average Rating: 4.4/5.0
Total Reviews: 78
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"Reliable and knowledgable partners"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— James Y.
"Trusted Cloud Partner with valuable cloud intelligence capabilities"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Martin L.
Hyperglance aiuta i team di cloud, FinOps, piattaforma e sicurezza a comprendere cosa è in esecuzione su AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, AWS GovCloud e Azure Government. Invece di guardare a costo, proprietà, architettura e rischio in strumenti separati, i team possono utilizzare Hyperglance per connetterli in un unico posto. Vedi cosa supporta ogni risorsa, chi la possiede, quanto costa, come si connette al resto del tuo ambiente e se necessita di attenzione. Hyperglance è costruito per ambienti cloud complessi dove la sola visibilità non è sufficiente. Aiuta i team a trovare sprechi, migliorare il tagging, comprendere l'allocazione dei costi, investigare i rischi e decidere cosa può cambiare in sicurezza prima che venga intrapresa un'azione. Poiché Hyperglance è auto-ospitato, i team mantengono il controllo su distribuzione, gestione dei dati e accesso. Questo lo rende una scelta forte per ambienti di mercato medio, enterprise, settore pubblico, regolamentati e MSP dove la governance del cloud, la sicurezza e la responsabilità sono importanti. Usa Hyperglance per: 🔷 Vedere risorse e relazioni cloud su AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, GovCloud e Azure Government 🔷 Collegare il costo del cloud a proprietà, architettura, rischio e azione 🔷 Trovare risorse inutilizzate, sottoutilizzate, non etichettate e configurate in modo errato 🔷 Supportare FinOps, governance del cloud, showback, chargeback e allocazione dei costi 🔷 Dare ad architetti, ingegneri, team FinOps e leader una visione condivisa dell'ambiente 🔷 Esegui strumenti di gestione del cloud nel tuo ambiente Hyperglance aiuta i team a passare da "Quanto ci costa questo?" a "Chi lo possiede, cosa supporta e cosa dovremmo fare dopo?"
Average Rating: 4.5/5.0
Total Reviews: 84
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"Visibilità Chiara, Curva di Apprendimento più Ripida."
Rating: 4.5/5.0 stars
— Mohammed R.
"Trasforma le operazioni cloud con visibilità in tempo reale e semplicità"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Utente verificato in Software per computer
IBM Turbonomic, ora parte della piattaforma Concert, è una piattaforma di gestione delle risorse applicative in tempo reale progettata per aiutare gli utenti a ottimizzare e gestire le risorse in ambienti ibridi e multi-cloud. Questa soluzione innovativa analizza continuamente le prestazioni delle applicazioni e l'utilizzo delle risorse, automatizzando le decisioni critiche sulle risorse per garantire prestazioni ottimali delle applicazioni riducendo al minimo i costi associati alle risorse cloud e infrastrutturali. IBM Turbonomic affronta le sfide della gestione di ambienti complessi e dinamici. Man mano che le organizzazioni adottano sempre più strategie ibride e multi-cloud, la necessità di una gestione efficace delle risorse diventa fondamentale. Turbonomic offre un approccio completo alla gestione delle prestazioni analizzando l'intero stack tecnologico, identificando inefficienze e scoprendo dipendenze che possono influire sulle prestazioni delle applicazioni. Questa capacità di gestione proattiva consente alle organizzazioni di mantenere alti livelli di servizio controllando i costi. Una delle caratteristiche chiave di IBM Turbonomic è la sua capacità di regolare continuamente le risorse applicative in tempo reale. Monitorando l'utilizzo delle risorse e le prestazioni delle applicazioni, Turbonomic previene il degrado delle prestazioni e il sovradimensionamento. Questo aggiustamento dinamico garantisce che le applicazioni ricevano le risorse necessarie quando necessario, il che è cruciale per mantenere livelli di prestazioni ottimali. Inoltre, la piattaforma automatizza le decisioni sulle risorse come il dimensionamento e il posizionamento, consentendo alle organizzazioni di concentrarsi su iniziative strategiche piuttosto che su compiti manuali di gestione delle risorse. I clienti di Turbonomic riportano una riduzione media del 33% degli sprechi di cloud e infrastruttura senza influire sulle prestazioni delle applicazioni e un ritorno sull'investimento del 471% in tre anni. IBM Turbonomic è disponibile anche su AWS Marketplace. Sfruttando Turbonomic, le aziende possono garantire che le loro applicazioni funzionino senza problemi, le risorse siano utilizzate efficacemente e i costi siano tenuti sotto controllo, il tutto mantenendo un focus sull'innovazione e la crescita. Per ulteriori informazioni, visitare www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic
Average Rating: 4.4/5.0
Total Reviews: 287
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"Ottimizzazione delle risorse più intelligente con l'automazione in tempo reale"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Bishal D.
"Ottimizzazione affidabile dell'infrastruttura per i team DevOps moderni"
Rating: 4.0/5.0 stars
— Tushar P.
Trova i colli di bottiglia delle prestazioni in produzione
Average Rating: 4.3/5.0
Total Reviews: 65
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"Recensione del prodotto Google Cloud"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— Opeyemi O.
"La mia recensione per Google Cloud Trace!!!"
Rating: 4.0/5.0 stars
— Ashish S.
A cloud management platform (CMP) is a set of unified software tools which help companies monitor and control cloud computing resources. While these tools can be deployed by an enterprise exclusively for a public or private cloud arrangement, CMPs commonly focus on the management of hybrid and multi-cloud models to help optimize control of various cloud-based infrastructures. CMPs also include open-source software modules that provide a framework to create and manage both public and private cloud infrastructure. This aids cost management, backup and disaster recovery, and enhancement of performance and security.
Cloud management platforms offer the administrative visibility and capability of cloud cost management software, cloud infrastructure monitoring software, cloud infrastructure automation software, and more. CMPs are designed to integrate with a variety of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) tools as well.
Focused platforms
Platforms that offer only one type of cloud problem solving, say, cloud security to protect data, applications, and infrastructure from threats, and automation of tasks to reduce manual intervention, or cost optimization to increase business efficiency. These products will generally focus on a specific task.
Multi-cloud platforms
In multi-cloud infrastructure, cloud assets, software, and applications are distributed across several cloud environments. With a typical multi-cloud architecture involving two or more public and private clouds, a multi-cloud environment aims to eradicate the dependency on any single provider or instance. Multicloud management is the set of tools and procedures that allows a business to monitor and secure applications and workloads across multiple public or private clouds or a combination of both. By offering simplified, centralized management, a multi-cloud management solution allows IT teams to more effectively manage applications and workloads across multiple clouds.
Hybrid cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)
Platforms that support hybrid clouds as well as on-premise infrastructure fit into this category. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined, unified system that combines all the elements of a traditional data center—storage, computing, networking, and management. Hybrid cloud solutions combine a private cloud with one or more public cloud services, with proprietary software enabling communication between each distinct service. Hybrid cloud computing is powerful because it gives businesses greater control over their private data. An organization can store sensitive data on a private cloud or local data center and simultaneously leverage the robust computational resources of a managed public cloud. Due to complexities such as migration of services, compatibility issues between different cloud service providers, etc., in the management of such an infrastructure, these tools rely heavily on custom implementation.
The following are a few essential features that a cloud management platform should have to help organizations gain visibility into their cloud deployments and take necessary actions.
Cost control: A good cloud management tool should provide insights to the user to help them visualize the utilization and cost of current infrastructure and track cost consumption across all cloud resources. Insights will help the user to reduce overall costs. A cloud management platform is a software solution whose main attribute is a vast and extensive set of APIs that allow it to extract data from every area of the IT infrastructure. The tools should be able to provide cost savings by giving one the capability to hibernate their unutilized resources and provide insights into each service with estimated savings.
Logs monitoring: What makes a cloud management tool unique is its ability to integrate monitoring processes by providing logs from all the major resources. CMPs are purpose-built to draw humongous volumes of data from the user’s application stack in the form of automatically generated computer logs. Log files contain information about every event that occurs in the user’s cloud environment. Analyzing those files can yield information about errors, vulnerabilities, compliance, security, and more.
Compliance: Cloud compliance is the principle that cloud-delivered systems must be in accordance with the standards their customers require. It ensures that cloud computing services meet the compliance requirements of enterprise customers. Maintaining compliance takes effort on the part of both the cloud service provider and the enterprise; without that effort, the organization's data could be at risk of not adhering to mandatory rules and regulations.
Optimizing the overall workload: CPM implementation in the IT market makes workflow better, optimizing the best practice and managing the resources to get better outcomes without losing out on either money or time. Features of the cloud management tools are connected internally and work together. This means that the tool can automatically control the infrastructure and make adjustments when necessary. The platform also helps in decision making. It can also play a role in managing and creating policy frameworks.
Billing and metering: This is another crucial feature provided by a cloud management platform. CPM accounts for an organization’s unique cloud architecture and finds ways to manage billing and chargebacks effectively. Metering refers to the methods and tools used to track the usage of infrastructure and software delivered via the cloud. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS vendors have a variety of options for metering the usage of the solutions they provide to clients, including per-user metering, per-account metering, and per-transaction metering.
Self-service management: Most CMP solutions support self-service cloud resource management. Enterprises can provision resources for their cloud environment themselves rather than having a set amount of resources delivered. A CMP can help enterprises determine if they are using the optimal amount of resources for their business needs. That can help in determining the correct amount of resources to request from the cloud provider in the future.
Cloud cost management: Enterprises want to manage their resource usage to reduce costs. Resources that aren't being used will just be a drain on the company’s finances. By managing operations to ensure that every resource is being used, cloud cost optimization can reduce the wastage of resources.
Automated management policies: CMPs deliver automated cloud management policies and tasks to help utilize resources using automatic orchestration. For example, it automates the process of finding spare resources on the network whenever one needs them. Rather than waiting until the IT team discovers wasted resources, the CMP automatically fixes resource usage problems.
Cloud compliance and governance: Usage of cloud services requires the integration of traditional IT governance best practices, such as compliance and chargebacks. Therefore, to govern the cloud for operational excellence, it is important to implement cloud management tools for compliance, incident, and transparent financial management. By doing this, the IT team will run responsible, compliant operations—with tight fiscal controls and transparency. As a result, an organization can benefit from economies of scale, lower individual usage costs, and centralize infrastructure costs while extending or improving current governance capabilities.
IT industry: CMPs help IT teams secure and optimize cloud infrastructure, including the applications and data residing on it. Administrators can manage compliance, set up real-time monitoring, and prevent cyberattacks and data breaches. Today organizations have dozens of diverse applications running in the cloud. Cloud management gives visibility and control over this otherwise uncoordinated ecosystem, integrating operating systems, applications, storage frameworks, provisioning, cloud security, and anything else hosted on the enterprise’s cloud. Administrators gain access and control over the enterprise cloud through a web-based interface that they can access remotely.
Finance industry: Cloud services enable the digital transformation of the finance industry while cloud management platforms offer a dramatically improved experience for this industry using the platform. Due to the increase in mobile consumerization and mass digitization, financial services institutions are transforming data and automating core processes and workflows. The banking sector now provides customized solutions to meet the needs of their diverse customer base with the help of enterprise cloud managed services that support a multitude of enterprise applications. Since cloud offerings and adoption of cloud services are growing, a CMP solution aids in streamlining operations, enabling managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver financial governance, security and compliance governance, and identity and access governance across multiple public clouds. By implementing a CMP solution, the BFSI sector can lower infrastructure costs and increase asset utilization, thereby improving agility and operational efficiency.
Media and entertainment industry: A global consumer base with a growing demand for “bingeable” content is pushing the M&E industry to provide content that is not only available in a variety of formats, but also tailored for diverse audiences in disparate geographies. Implementation of a cloud management platform helps media enterprises streamline access to media from any location. It enables the management of huge quantities of digital content in a faster, dynamic, and cost-effective manner.
E-commerce industry: The scalability of the cloud complements the needs of the retail sector. Provisioning more servers on its own or obtaining funds to build a bigger IT infrastructure will slow down an enterprise's growth. Cloud management solutions provide a business the ability to view and search for non-compliant servers across environments. CMP provides superior stability for online retail and ensures cost efficiency. Cloud management provides advanced data security which has been a rising concern for e-commerce platforms.
Automotive industry: The automotive industry needs to be up-to-date with its supply chain as this allows them to interact effectively with customers and cater to their needs. Cloud management platforms help this industry as they can have a common environment for both automotive suppliers and manufacturers to share data to ensure that both sides have supply chain visibility. Cloud management platforms are useful for moving, storing, securing, and indexing massive volumes of data generated from connected vehicles.
Healthcare industry: Cloud healthcare solutions help doctors to easily stay connected to their patients which improves collaboration with each other. Cloud solutions for the healthcare sector enhance patient engagement, empower health team collaboration, and improve clinical and operational data insights to improve decision making and operational efficiencies. Implementing a cloud management platform by the healthcare industry makes it faster and easier to provide more efficient services to patients and helps ensure the end-to-end security, compliance, and interoperability of health data.
Cloud cost management software: Cloud cost management software allows an enterprise to understand and manage the costs and needs associated with its cloud technology. In particular, this means finding cost-effective ways to maximize cloud usage and efficiency. These tools are typically paired with an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider offering to minimize the costs of their pay-as-you-go model. Cloud cost management software helps companies reduce waste by alerting users of low demand or automatically scaling usage to optimal rates. Companies also use these tools to increase the efficiency of their cloud service usage—these solutions often provide reporting features to outline waste and redundancies. Cloud cost management software has some overlap with SaaS spend management software, but the latter is used to monitor and manage spending on cloud applications rather than infrastructure.
Cloud infrastructure monitoring software: Cloud infrastructure monitoring software allows companies to visualize and track the performance of their applications or services. These tools aggregate data in real time to display information related to a company’s cloud-based resources. These tools can track application performance, network availability, and resource allocation, among other factors. Cloud infrastructure monitoring is a process that makes sure an application both remains available and responds to user requests within an acceptable amount of time. It can also involve goals such as optimizing code or reducing infrastructure costs. Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools may have overlapping features with either cloud workload protection platforms or cloud cost management software. Those tools, however, perform more individualized and specific management capabilities and may not provide adequate or necessary monitoring capabilities.
Cloud infrastructure automation software: Cloud infrastructure automation technology is used to provision servers and computer data centers through metadata files, as opposed to physical configuration. The concept in practice can also be referred to as implementing "infrastructure as code" or performing continuous configuration automation. Developers will create templated infrastructure to run their application code, review, and integrate it. These templates can then be reused and generated automatically, minimizing a developer’s need to reconfigure infrastructure. Companies use cloud infrastructure automation technology in DevOps practices to reuse pre-configured infrastructure and ensure configuration visibility at all times. These tools can save developers time in configuring infrastructure as well as reduce downtime. These tools have a strong tie to the continuous delivery process. Many DevOps-focused configuration management software tools will have the ability to automate cloud infrastructure, but that capability is not inherent in all configuration management tools.
Other Software Related to Cloud Management Platforms: AWS management, Azure management, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) management, Others,
Security and privacy: Keeping confidential data safe and secure is among the topmost priorities for organizations. Earlier, most companies used corporate firewalls to safeguard their sensitive data. Now with migration to the cloud becoming increasingly common, the challenge of keeping the data secure makes businesses extremely cautious. Where the cloud provider provides the first layer of security, the customer must provide the second. The challenge here is that customers must know what is required by each cloud service provider so that they can properly secure data across their various providers.
Interoperability: Another common challenge that businesses face while using cloud infrastructure is how to avoid the prospect of being locked into a service. Cloud environments are typically built around an organization’s requirements, which means that switching can be hard. Every business should expect the freedom of portability that allows them to move in and out of the cloud, and between clouds without any hassles. When that is not possible due to lock-in periods and other similar problems, the benefits can be lessened.
Cloud costs: Costing is a significant challenge in the adoption, operation, and migration of cloud computing services, especially for small and mid-sized businesses.
Cloud migration: Cloud migration refers to the process of moving all the applications and data from on-premises storage to the cloud. Moving business operations to a cloud service provider can be very challenging and may impact the functioning of connected systems. Among the other challenges involved with migration are security configurations, other software investments, time-consuming preparatory work, slow data migrations, extensive troubleshooting, and application downtime.
Limitations on cloud reporting structure: Rather than using a single cloud, organizations today are using multiple public and private clouds. Enterprises tend to receive reporting metrics from different cloud service providers. This can be challenging when not only trying to correlate between reports from each of these providers but with the organizational reporting structure itself. This imposes limitations on one’s cloud reporting structure.
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Finding the right cloud management platform for a business can be difficult due to numerous potential vendors and seemingly similar offerings. Without digging deeper to uncover the details, enterprises run the risk of selecting a solution that can result in unexpected costs, vendor lock-in, difficult-to-agree service level agreements (SLAs), or simply a lack of fit to requirements.
The functional or technical requirements are a core part of the purchase process. Functional requirements usually vary from one organization to the next. Organizations must determine the end goal of purchasing a CMP, whether it is for optimizing costs, requirements around data retention, security, performance, or specific functional requirements. Depending on the scope of the deployment, it might be helpful to produce an RFI, a one-page list with a few bullet points describing what is needed from the platform.
Create a long list
As more and more organizations build internal private clouds or enter the service provider market with public clouds, choosing the right vendor and platform for managing today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments boils down to more than just technical capabilities.
Long lists are created by eliminating the options that do not align with the organization’s cloud strategy. Vendor evaluation is an essential part of the CMP buying process, it helps to prepare a consistent list of questions regarding specific needs and concerns to ask each vendor.
Whether embarking on a proof-of-concept/pilot or a full enterprise-level deployment of the CMP, the following considerations should enable the establishment of realistic and achievable goals:
Business requirements: It is important to take into consideration which departments and clients will benefit from the platform deployment and the extent of disruption during the implementation. A business must also take into account the period within which implementation of the CMP will start generating ROI.
Product requirements: The enterprise willing to adopt a CMP should determine the consistency of the platform with its existing cloud strategy. The tool helps in the management of the various cloud platforms and cloud services. Achieving the full value of this investment also requires integration with other tools in the infrastructure that support functions such as service management, DevOps, configuration management, and financial management. A CMP should allow for seamless integration with the organization’s existing services to generate customized and actionable insights.
Depending on whether a SaaS or on-premises deployment solution is selected, there may be an impact on the existing connectivity and service level commitments. It is crucial to understand the management functions covered by the CMP in terms of resources, spend, and security and how fast it can detect usage of resources and determine their necessity.
Support requirements: The enterprise should be aware of the extent to which it will be dependent on the vendor after the full implementation of the platform. Additionally, vendor patch releases are an important consideration when evaluating cloud management vendors. The user must find out about the release cycles and frequency of the releases in their development cycles. Vendors should provide regular fixes and functional enhancements. If an organization is using a CMP with a SaaS model, it can usually minimize the impact of software releases. The process is usually more seamless than an on-premises deployment.
Create a short list
From the long list of vendors, it is pragmatic to narrow down the list of contenders. Enterprises must select solutions that are aligned with the enterprise’s goals. With this list, businesses can compare the features offered by different vendors and the pricing structure of various solutions.
Conduct demos
Demos provide an opportunity to buyers to see how a cloud management platform works. While pre-recorded demonstrations and slide decks are available online, it is lucrative to request the vendor for a live demo of the CMP platform using the system to dive deep into their technical capabilities.
Additionally, mapping out a draft deployment plan or proof of concept (POC) is highly recommended before making a selection as it provides a roadmap for subsequent activities and defines the resources that are required in each phase. A PoC should prove (or disprove) whether the technology matches the organization’s requirements.
Choose a selection team
It is important to recognize that project success is based on a team’s effort including the vendor that will support the CMP deployment with their training and professional services staff as well as the tenant and end-user community. Forming the team and establishing a common vision is imperative. The partnerships for deployment must extend into the enterprise itself.
Final decision
Cloud services and CMPs are still evolving, it is unlikely that any one platform can serve as a “one size fits all” solution. However, selecting a vendor that has a strategy aligned with the enterprise’s directions and objectives will accelerate growth as the product matures. Rapid developments have pushed providers to innovate and develop mature solutions that work with top public cloud providers as well as on-premises virtual stacks.
Here are few factors to consider while making the final decision:
Total cost of ownership and cost associated with day-to-day data transfers: One way to evaluate a cloud management vendor is to establish the total cost of ownership (TCO) of its CMP. This involves calculating the cost of acquisition and the recurring operational costs for the service. If there are any additional integrations required, it’s best to include the anticipated costs into the TCO estimate. Some cloud providers offer a low base price but charge extra fees to transfer data. This could lock the user into their product by making it a costly affair to transfer to another provider, hampering the user’s ability to use their data in a way that best suits their requirements. Many cloud service providers encourage customers to move data into their respective clouds by not charging for data ingress. However, data transfer fees do exist for data egress—or moving data out of a cloud data center—not just from the cloud to on-premises, but also between data centers within the same provider, or another cloud provider. The data transfer fees can add up over time. It is crucial to keep data transfer fees in mind when choosing a cloud management solution.
Product licensing or service subscription model: A CMP is either a vendor SaaS offering, open-source or a licensed on-premises product. Acquisition and recurring costs will vary widely based on the model an enterprise opts for. It is imperative to scrutinize the terms and conditions of the product support and licensing agreements or SaaS SLAs to achieve enterprise goals within the defined OPEX (operating expense) and CAPEX (capital expenditure) budgets.
Identifying risks and opportunities early: Whether a commitment to a given CMP product has been made, or early evaluation is underway, it is important to capture and monitor deployment and operations risks, and improvement opportunities early so that it is possible to leverage the lessons learned, contain cost overruns, and modify plans when needed. Whenever a new technology is leveraged, it is good to devise back-out plans or alternatives when assumptions and outcomes change. It must be ensured that the solution chosen will be adaptable to the organization’s future requirements.
Multi and hybrid cloud environments will continue to grow
Enterprises recognize that cloud management isn’t about having one specific platform or infrastructure, it’s about choosing the solution that’s fit for the job at hand. The emerging trend is that enterprises are becoming less worried about sticking with one vendor and embracing a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud offering to get the best out of each solution.
Solution-focused partners
As businesses continue to move their infrastructure using SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, there will be a continuous requirement for third-party vendors who specialize in meeting specific use cases and problem-solving. While one’s cloud service provider will be responsible for infrastructure needs such as storage, outsources will be taking care of computing and networking, specific needs such as data, visibility, AI and ML technology, or IoT.
Continuous shift to tech on demand
As cloud costs are controlled, businesses will have more revenue at their disposal to take advantage of solutions that beat their specific industry challenges. In turn, providers will look to push out innovation that is easily accessible to a wide audience, has a low learning curve, low-code interface, and is more democratized overall, so that anyone can reap the rewards.
