Configuration management is still important for companies using multi-cloud environments to gain visibility, control, and compliance over their cloud resources. Some benefits of configuration management for multi-cloud include visibility over cloud configurations and services, control over cloud resources through policies and automation, and easier transition of workloads between on-premise and cloud environments. Micro Focus provides configuration management capabilities that can discover resources in major public clouds like AWS and Azure as well as private clouds.

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Configuration Management
in a Multi-Cloud Era
The role and relevance of configuration management in the cloud has
been unclear as more companies move to a Hybrid IT model. Companies
are weighing the following pros and cons of cloud migration:
Configuration management benefits for multi-cloud include:
Some of our multi-cloud configuration
management capabilities include:
PROS:
• Greater elasticity
• Financial benefits
• Increases reliability
CONS:
• Less control when business
and data move off-premise
• Less visibility over resources
• High cost to move workloads
The good news is, configuration
management is needed as much
as ever in the cloud as ITIL
principles still apply regardless
of platform used. And, strong discovery and
configuration management within
Hybrid IT can mitigate many of the
potential cons of moving to the cloud.
Visibility
Control and
compliance
Transition
to cloud Cost
View configuration;
map services
• Discover resources in
AWS, Azure and more
• Service modeling and
software inventory
Control cloud
resources
• Use the information
for asset management,
service management
and monitoring
Migrate from
on-premise to cloud
• Discover resource
groups that can
move to Cloud
Only pay for what
you use
• Cut unused
resources
• Only pay for the
software you need
Micro Focus has deep multi-cloud discovery
capabilities that enable full configuration
management capabilities in the cloud
In fact, cloud computing spending
is expected to grow at more than
6 times the rate of IT spending
from 2015–2020:
Respondents shared which type of cloud architecture their organization is currently using:
Did you know? Hybrid cloud adoption grew 3X in the last year, increasing
from 19% to 57% of organizations surveyed:2
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Private
Hybrid
Public cloud discovery with: Private cloud discovery with:
• Deep discovery of dependencies and resources deployed
• Real-time discovery for openstack, vCloud and docker containers
• Service Mapping
• Cost and chargeback management
• Integration with service and asset management solutions
• Cloud resource monitoring
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