Cloud agent concept
The cloud computing industry is booming. Public cloud has become a crowded Red Sea market, and more and more different types of service providers have emerged. Full competition on the one hand to bring the market price and service experience to upgrade, on the other hand also allows users to face the challenges of public cloud selection and management of the cloudy. Generally, cloud hosts provided by different cloud service providers vary in quality and price. In different application scenarios, users may need to rent different levels of host services. The privately owned public cloud enables different cloud services to be incompatible with each other and poor interoperability between clouds. The most intuitive way to perform this task is to use the interface differently from the management interface. In this case, third-party tools or services are needed to integrate different cloud services. Cloud service agent came into being.
Cloud proxy is both an IT role and a business model in which a neutral, third-party vendor or physical company provides cloud-based consumers with a more professional, point-focused, and cloud-based management service that helps cloud consumption The best way to purchase, implement and manage the cloud. Cloud agents can be seen as a hybrid cloud business model.
There are three main modes of cloud proxy: aggregation, integration and customization. Aggregation refers to aggregating multiple cloud services and providing them to cloud consumers at a single point, enabling single sign-on, unified management, unified billing, unified deployment, SLA management, and user support for multiple cloud services; and integration Is to provide new business functions for cloud consumers on the basis of convergence, such as cloud service governance, network integration, inter-cloud data migration and the like; customization is to customize, develop, change or increase existing cloud services according to user requirements Cloud service capabilities. These three modes are gradual. At present, mainstream cloud agents mainly implement convergence and simple integration functions. Customized cloud agents are still a long way from mature commercial applications.
Cloud proxy technology and business started late, the overall is still in the early stages of development, but its rapid development, the market space is vast. According to the latest Gartner forecast, the cloud proxy market is expected to double in 4 years and maintain an average annual growth rate of 19.8%. By 2018, it will reach 160 billion U.S. dollars.
Cloud proxy industry status quo
Cloud agents are generally in their infancy, but their technologies and businesses are rapidly evolving. More and more cloud platform providers are beginning to add hybrid cloud support to their cloud management platforms to penetrate the cloud proxy market, with typical representatives including VMware, Microsoft and RedHat.
In addition to traditional cloud platform providers, there are more and more third-party vendors in the industry offering cloud proxy services, with RightScale and Scalr among the most typical. RightScale Cloud Cloud Management Platform for Cloud Consumers, Cloud Cloud and Cloud Management, Cloud Services and Compliance, Cloud Automation, Automated Scaling and Cost Management Deploy, control cloud usage and consumption, ensure application service quality. RightScale supports a variety of public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace, as well as typical private clouds such as OpenStack, CloudStack, and VMware. Similar to RightScale, Scalr's service model provides a business cloud management platform for enterprise users, providing developers and users with a unified API and web interface to access and manage resources distributed across different cloud platforms while providing unified authentication, role control, Cloud management, strategy and scheduling, cost analysis and statistics, and other typical cloud proxy services. Scalr also supports a variety of public clouds such as AWS EC2, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Rackspace, as well as typical private clouds such as OpenStack, CloudStack, and VMware.
Visible, the current cloud proxy mainly to achieve convergence and simple integration. For AWS, Azure, VMware vCloud, Rackspace,
Adaptation and integration of Cloud APIs such as OpenStack are the industry's top priorities.
Cloud proxy key technologies
The core of cloud agent is to achieve a single point of centralized management of cloudy, the key technologies include cloud management, cloud interface adapter and inter-cloud network.
Multi-Cloud Management: Multi-Cloud Management simplifies the use and management of multiple types of cloud resources and helps users make optimal resource deployment decisions. The cloud management system provides the API interface to manage the cloud resources through the IaaS cloud management platform, which is located on the IaaS cloud management platform and is a hot topic in the industry.