It requires a significant level of advancement for a traditional data center or a Hosting Service Provider (HSP) to evolve into a Cloud Service Provider (CSP). This evolution often involvesintroducing virtualized infrastructure at compute Cam Newton Shirt , network and storage levels and this can be effectively achieved by introducing the best practices for management, monitoring and provisioning in a cloud environment.
Below is a list of some of the best practices recommended for a Private Public cloud environment
Self-Service Portals and Orchestration The need for a simplified self-service portal arrives due to large volume of customers end users that CSPs deal with.
The self-service portal allows customers to select, purchase and implement a new service, whether it is Virtual Machines (VMs) provisioning Christian McCaffrey Shirt , storage provisioning or an email account. It is thus essentially functioning as a services catalog, which is a necessity for any public or an enterprise-class private cloud environment.
Chargeback Without the ability to track and attribute the consumption of service and resources, service providers would fail in a matter of months. This is very essential for generating business revenue and projecting business guidance.
Instead of reinventing the wheel, the new service providers should borrow the successful chargeback models and apply them for their cloud metering. They should also get these integrated with other Billing Gateways for making an online payment to facilitate users with seamless experience.
Approval It is always better to offer an approval workflow within the self-service portal for the company administrator to allowreject any user provisioning requests as each service catalog and resource usage incurs charges to the company.
Automation Consumers expect prompt services Devin Funchess Jersey , and ‘automation’ plays a big role in keeping them happy. With automation, service providers can spend less time on service maintenance and more time on business improvement opportunities. Service providers can ensure the releasing of resources on time and making it available to new provisioning requests by automating the expiry process.
The CSPs should target for an end-to-end automation with provisioning, approval work flow, chargeback Shaq Thompson Jersey , extension and expiry, all integrated together.
Multi-Vendor Support It makes sense for data centers with ever changing economic climate and availability of many competitively priced virtualized platforms to consider orchestration products which have multi-vendor support unified into an automated provisioning system, with approval and chargeback workflows. It is important that the provisioning system should be analytics driven and should support intelligent capacity provisioning with utilization alerts and reporting.
Secure Multi-Tenancy Lack of isolation between tenants spread across heterogeneous hypervisors or hybrid cloud environments is a major security concern today. Any unauthorized access or migrations between tenants in a multi-tenant data center is bound to weaken the isolation boundaries, thus it becomes important for providers to ensure complete isolation between any two tenants at all levels James Bradberry Jersey , i.e. Compute, Network and Storage in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
Migrating Rogue VMs into Trusted Cloud A possible and realistic threat to cloud infrastructure could be an external spurious virtual machine infected with viruses or spywares that could be migrated or copied into the cloud.
With such a situation in view, it is good to have products which auto-discover Rogue VMs entering the trusted cloud environment and prevent them from booting-up in that environment.
Domain Specific Offerings Service providers in the cloud environment must learn to differentiate their offerings. One recommended way to do this is by providing domain specific clouds in their service catalogs like Dev-Test Cloud, Financial Services Cloud Taylor Moton Jersey , Health Care Specific Cloud, Disaster Recovery Cloud, etc.,
This procedure makes it important to deploy a base platform which is flexible enough to support all such vertical offerings to build the controls required to offer compliance.
Customization & Rich Integration with Existing Infrastructures Providing APOs that can be used by the other third-party products within the cloud environment for unification is another highly recommended step. There must be some preference for offerings which meets the end user requirements of customization. DUBLIN Ian Thomas Jersey , Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Ireland held a state funeral here on Monday for former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Albert Reynolds, who died on Thursday at the age of 81.
Ireland's President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny were attending the requiem mass at Donnybrook church in Dublin.
Former British Prime Minister John Major, who described Reynolds as a "remarkable friend", were also among the dignitaries in attendance.
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The former Taoiseach, who played an important part in the Northern Ireland peace process, died in the early hours of Thursday morning at his Dublin home following a long illness.
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His family said last year that he had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
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