According to a survey conducted during VMworld 2011, nearly 75 percent of
respondents are currently building or operating private cloud infrastructures,
with an additional 16% planning projects in the next 12 months. However, while
72 percent of respondents are worried about guaranteeing business service
delivery using cloud infrastructures, only 44 percent of the respondents have IT
operations management software in place that can monitor physical, virtual, and
cloud infrastructures. The survey, conducted by leading cloud management
solution provider Zenoss, polled 114 VMworld attendees.
Enterprises and service providers alike are flocking to the cloud, which can
offer tremendous benefits to their businesses. Leading analyst firm Gartner
estimates the cloud market will reach a staggering $148.8 billion by 2014.
However, well-publicized outages temper the enthusiasm for the cloud of many IT
managers, and highlight the challenges to delivering service in a cloud
infrastructure. As the survey revealed, while the vast majority of respondents
have cloud plans and are concerned about service delivery, they haven't yet
formulated their management strategy.
"Organizations of all sizes and from all industries are moving to the cloud
without a clear strategy for managing the performance of their cloud computing
resources," said Bill Karpovich, CEO of Zenoss. "Whether businesses are using
public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructures, having a comprehensive IT
operations and service assurance solution is critical to ensuring optimal
service delivery."
Zenoss recently launched Zenoss Service Dynamics, the market's first service
impact management solution that both unifies and automates impact and root cause
analysis for IT services that span private and public IT infrastructures.
Service providers and enterprises use Zenoss Service Dynamics to maintain
visibility into the health of their hybrid IT services from a single console
that is easy-to-configure and automatically updated in real-time as workloads
migrate and relationships change. Unlike legacy solutions, Zenoss' offering
natively understands virtualization and cloud services, and automatically adapts
to changes in the underlying infrastructure that impact service delivery.
At VMworld Zenoss announced full support for VMware vSphere 5 and VMware
vCloud Director 1.5.