Where Is Cloud Going? 8 Insights From Interop ITX Study

Cloud Management Software

What software do businesses use to manage and analyze their cloud usage?

Microsoft Operations Management Suite is or will be used by 32 percent of the 160 organizations that have either implemented a private cloud or support a hybrid cloud infrastructure, the survey found. Amazon CloudWatch fell in right behind, at 30 percent, followed by VMware's vRealize, at 21 percent.

Interop cited cloud management as "one of the most unsettled questions" surrounding cloud, with no consensus on "best practices." That comes in spite of the emergence of different solutions to tackle cloud management, such as Puppet, Chef and platform-as-a-service.

The survey revealed that more respondents said their organizations do not automate or orchestrate workloads than those who use "true 'cloud management' software, so many users are not realizing some of the main benefits of the cloud."