Automating Cloud Operations through Compliance & Security
Cloud automation, that was previously termed as virtual lab automation offers users with dynamic provisioning and scheduling of virtual machines and data centers. The cloud environment also enables centralized control over safety policies and usages. Such an arrangement is apt for dynamic workloads, for instance sales demos, virtual training and other associated agendas.
How to automate cloud operations with security and compliance?
Today well known brands specializing in IT Compliance automation solutions have introduced innovative cloud automation programs with security and compliance. Some of the distinguishing features are as follows:-
• Cloud Repository
This feature processes the auto-discovered resources data and the correlation of the interdependencies within a Cloud repository. The cloud service providers thus have a secure, independent visibility and are able to control of every subscriber’s resources in a multi-tenant environment.
• Asset discovery of Cloud Processes
This offers real-time visibility and end-to-end security audit trials of cloud resources along with an integrated view of organization data centers and cloud implementations. Initially, the cloud automation providers and company subscribers may have the visibility into their approved audited cloud resources.
• Service Activation
This feature helps to implement coordinated and automated configuration of virtual and physical resources all through the hypervisor management systems, network devices and storage systems making use of standard interfaces.
• Real Time Reporting
This assists in real-time alerting through an email notification to approved users. This helps operation flexibility for sanctioned members. Cloud automation service providers offer a wide selection of operational compliance and technical charts, reports and graphs on demand. The reports can be personalized readily and delivered through an email on a scheduled basis or even on demand.
• Capacity Management
It helps in monitoring capacity across the virtual, physical and cloud infrastructure and helps in capacity planning all through the virtual resources in the cloud. It offers visibility into the overall architecture resources and real-time capacity.
• Service Availability
This helps in maximizing the accessibility of cloud services by managing change to reduce downtime and increase uptime. Leading service providers with their solutions maximizes the uptime by making the change management process even more efficient. It also assures configuration integrity and ensures that the administrated influenced by the change are apt notified and included on the entire change approval process. It also minimized down time by leveraging its repository to bring down the mean time to repair.
Cloud automation today offers users with service to service access to virtual labs and dynamic provisioning of sessions anywhere globally and at any time. With advanced cloud automation techniques consumers today has the capability to integrate live collaboration, physical devices, custom integration into their operation and design.