- by Anirban Dutta, Web Producer

Yes the Cloud is over us now and we’ve all experienced rain, and modern Geography terms the Water Cycle as Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing is defined (by Gartner) as “a style of computing where massively scalable IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to customers.”

A status symbol to top over owning your private jet corporate ego today would be by owning your Private cloud.

And just like your outsourced agency to maintain your jet, you would need an agency to realize and maintain your cloud too!

Whilst a scenery like this from a distance would inspire the Rembrandt within all of us, consider yourself in an airplane inside your scenery, I bet all you can think of is sickness bags and life jackets, and certainly not paintbrushes and canvas. The beauty of the shape and form of clouds that we take for granted has a lot of physical granularity in real which you would have realized on one of your rough flights back home.

It takes an experienced pilot to master the rough and guide all on board through these skies.

BMC has been a experienced pilot to many enterprises automating tasks and workflows, provisioning and configuration managing their infrastructure, ITIL centric process governance, Service Request Management, designing their Service Portals and Service Catalogue, automatically route requests through Change approval – In short BMC has enough flying hours under its belt to be pilot and crew to fly you safe through your cloud if you are looking to own one.

We within the social media community and today’s internet users in general have always accessed the public Cloud initiatives viz, SAAS, IAAS for business users and PAAS for developers – Cloud Computing Today - A Practical Perspective

As an end user I would want to delve no deeper than the plastic keys themselves. I do not want to trace my application and services back to the datacenters, networks, storage and the software stack – maintaining and running patches and updates. Maintaining dev, staging, production and failover environments, also keep in mind about availability of data maintaing compliance with, adherence to SLAs, all of this construct a favourite personal nightmare – In short I want to outsource all this tech expertise to my personal cloud management agency.

I’m actually in a funny situation where I am proud to be with one of the most competent Private and Hybrid Cloud Management organizations in the world and I am fully aware of the epic work going around the initiative, BUT I'd want to please restrict myself to just blogging about it. Ofcourse I do hold a lot of respect for the teams who are actually making the project a reality - I hope that allays traits of semi-flippancy.

I would really like to just pull down the cloud’s offerings like stream of gentle rain and leave the management part to Zeus of Cloud computing, the likes of Amazon and BMC Software who make my soaking so pleasurable.

The Press Releases:

BMC Software Brings the Power of Business Service Management to Enterprise Cloud Computing

BMC Software Leverages Amazon Web Services

BMC Makes Cloud Management Push with Amazon as Partner

But the admin part of my personality here at http://communities.bmc.com/communities is slightly more responsible and prepares himself to expect more traffic and participants, more talk and activity as Amazon and us plan to set the skies on fire.

Learn more about cloud computing with BMC, we hope you enjoy your flight with us.