Cloud Management

Cloud management, or integrated cloud service management, is about optimising your enterprise’s cloud experience and minimising the costs associated with being in the cloud and with new cloud-based infrastructure. Enterprises must have in place asset management systems to ensure they are keeping an eye on their cloud resources and their cloud provider, to ensure they have been supplied with the best possible applications, platforms and infrastructure, are meeting all governance and security requirements, and have good, reliable, scalable and ready access to the data they have stored in the cloud. Tools to ensure and monitor compliance should be in place, as should application management processes, as part of your cloud management strategy.

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