White Paper:
Optimizing Cloud Computing to Support Application Delivery

Date: 07/28/2010

Length: 8 pages

Cost: $0.00

Abstract:
While a there is a lot of industry hype around Cloud, and while many IT organizations feel under pressure to move to Cloud computing in order to cut costs, industry data shows that transitions to Cloud are greatly enhanced when supported by superior levels of service management. IT reluctance to jump into broadly deployed Cloud models is understandable, especially when so many IT organizations are still struggling to get their arms around their own resources. How then can they effectively measure the value of pulling in third-party services, or even manage an internal transition to a more virtualized data center for “Internal Cloud?”

Much of the debate around supporting Cloud computing to date has focused on security. This concern is real, but in many ways an even more fundamental concern is often overlooked – how does Cloud computing impact IT’s ability to deliver its application without disrupting critical Service Level Agreements and other business requirements? The bridge between application management and Cloud computing investments is still poorly understood – and yet IT’s “products” are its applications. It is these, in the end, to which IT is rightly expected to be most accountable.

This report provides insights into the various faces of Cloud computing, public and private, and how and why they are being adopted. It then provides insights into critical performance requirements and technologies most relevant to Cloud. The report also offers some guidance on how to get started with performance management strategies for assimilating Cloud services, and introduces Compuware’s portfolio as a unified solution to monitor and manage performance requirements inside and outside the firewall.