Managing Your Cloud’s Performance: Best Practices

SOURCE:  Computerworld

Once you move your core IT systems into private or public cloud networks, your work isn’t over. Now you have a different set of technology issues to deal with: managing the cloud to ensure that your investments pay off for your enterprise and deliver the efficiencies and ROI that you’re expecting.

Cloud management and monitoring have become even more important in the wake of April’s Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) outage, when the IT world got to see just what happens when a cloud environment runs into problems, taking the operations of many companies down with it. There have been other recent serious cloud outages as well.

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