Effective Management of Cloud Computing Platforms

The need for reliable and hybrid services surfaced with the increased adoption of cloud offerings. The cloud environments became highly complex with the increased number of service providers and vendors. To address this increased complexity in the virtualized and distributed resources, better management tools are required for automation and administrative aid. Interoperability and migration issues further complicate the situation, when a user moves from one cloud to another. These issues can be addressed efficiently using the effective cloud management tools. The present work discusses a number of cloud management tools existing in the market, considering both the open source and proprietary offerings. The significant features of these management tools, suitability to different deployment models and operating systems, limitations to implementation have been presented with a comparative analysis. This work is very useful to enable the users to know about various cloud management tools, their offerings, and to select the appropriate tool for their specific requirements