Enterprise IT still slow to embrace automation and cloud management solutions

Enterpries still haven't fully started embracing cloud  management solutions, in spite of the growth & maturity in the market - partly because of the failure to take advantage of cloud in the first place. The value proposition needs to be understood and the integrated approach is the key for the transformation. Businesses need to understand that the cloud is different from traditional environments. 

Private cloud computing expert Doug Jarvis told Network World that business IT directors want the same type of management tools for cloud services that they used in their data centers.  

Carl Lehmann, an analyst with the 451 Group, says that cloud governance is lagging behind data orchestration in general as there are no specific suites of tools that specifically target this area of cloud management. "But you can see the underpinnings of cloud governance being laid down in part by tools that can track authentication processes, access controls and key management in the cloud," Lehmann says. 



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