What is Cloud Management?

Simply put, cloud management involves procedures and tools used by businesses to efficiently manage their cloud resources.  

Cloud management controls the resources and services of a public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud cloud architecture. From provisioning cloud resources and services for various workloads and monitoring, resource and performance optimization, it entails both manual and automated management of the full cloud lifecycle. All of these dynamic aspects of managing a cloud environment can be controlled by IT experts with the aid of a well-designed cloud management strategy.  

Take a look at its key components: 

• Cloud Migration - Migrate workload to the cloud without interruption
• Data Storage Management - Assure that data storage capabilities are safe, secure, and highly accessible.
• Application Management – Optimizes the process of software lifecycle management and deployment.
• Improved Security - Applies strong security measures protecting personal information.
• Cost- Efficient - Optimizes resources into reduction of wasteful spending.
• Disaster Recovery Planning - Permits means and ways to recover in case of a loss of data or any other resource. This can be achieved within a very short period of time, otherwise known as rapid recovery.
• Competitive Advantage - Empowers companies with the right equipment that enables innovation and being on an up-to-date scale in relation to the changing market conditions.
• Performance and Value Monitoring – Embracing observability, FinOps tools to continuously monitor workload performance on cloud and maximize cloud ROI.

Companies can utilize the best possibilities of cloud and increase operational efficiency with effective cloud management and trusting a managed services provider.