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Hitachi Managed Cloud Operations Checklist

This document provides a checklist for secure and compliant managed cloud operations. It outlines six key steps: 1) Define your cloud model, 2) Build your cloud with a managed service provider, 3) Enable and operate your cloud, 4) Secure your cloud, 5) Add your applications, and 6) Ensure continuously compliant operations. Managed cloud services can take care of cloud management functions, allowing IT teams to focus on other tasks while maintaining security, compliance and control of workloads. Hitachi Vantara offers managed cloud services to help customers successfully manage their cloud operations.

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Hitachi Managed Cloud Operations Checklist

This document provides a checklist for secure and compliant managed cloud operations. It outlines six key steps: 1) Define your cloud model, 2) Build your cloud with a managed service provider, 3) Enable and operate your cloud, 4) Secure your cloud, 5) Add your applications, and 6) Ensure continuously compliant operations. Managed cloud services can take care of cloud management functions, allowing IT teams to focus on other tasks while maintaining security, compliance and control of workloads. Hitachi Vantara offers managed cloud services to help customers successfully manage their cloud operations.

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Checklist for Secure, Compliant

Managed Cloud Operations


CHECKL IS T

Comprehensive cloud management protects your business from security


threats, data loss and costly downtime. Whether you have a multicloud or
hybrid cloud environment, managed cloud services possess extensive cloud
knowledge to support your environment or fill in the management gaps.

1 Define Your Cloud


While public cloud is scalable and a quick-to-market option, private cloud, managed
internally, is customized but less scalable. Unsurprisingly, a hybrid cloud offers the best
of both. This technology service can be accessed in various models and deployment
strategies, including the most popular choices: software as a service (SaaS), platform
as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The underlying infrastructure
architecture can take various forms and features, including virtualized, software-defined
and hyperconverged models, among others.

2 Build Your Cloud With a Managed Cloud


Service Provider (MSP)
Managed cloud service providers take care of various cloud management functions
for your enterprise. Outsourcing these services allows your IT team to focus on cloud
workflows and applications that require their attention. Managed cloud service providers
can provide a comprehensive set of management capabilities to manage your cloud
infrastructure.
Managed cloud services allow the IT teams to establish an iterative process to improve the
software development life cycle to increase quality and velocity. It allows process owners
to capture data faster and leverage it for faster decisions. Getting the data sooner in the
process helps not only to keep the quality high and continue the workflow, but also to
eliminate bottlenecks and constraints that could delay or derail the development process.
3 Enable and Operate Your Cloud
Organizations can improve the software prowess of an organization and its ability to deliver
software code in a timely, efficient manner with managed cloud services that include
monitoring, automation, testing, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
To effectively manage your cloud infrastructure, it is important to know the assets in your IT
environment and have current, accurate configuration data. With an accurate understanding
and analysis, it’s easier to operate your organization’s IT environment, particularly in the
areas of service impact analysis, asset management, compliance and configuration
management. With this knowledge, IT efficiencies unfold, and cost savings are gained.

4 Secure Your Cloud


Managed cloud services allow you to enjoy benefits of cloud, while keeping your critical
data and applications secure and always protected. With antivirus, internal and external
vulnerability management as well as file integrity monitoring, you can be rest assured that
your data in the cloud is secure. To gain security and compliance benefits, the following
steps need to be prioritized:
✓ Proactive vulnerability assessment and management.
✓ Network intrusion protection.
✓ Firewall protection.
✓ Antivirus and malware protection.
✓ Proactive environment monitoring to alerts for attempted intrusion and
actual breaches.
✓ Incident response, including mitigation and remediation, as well as
recommendations for future prevention.

5 Add Your Applications


By using DevOps-based managed services, organizations can now focus on developing
software and strategic innovation with a faster time to market. There is no need to expend
time, effort and expense associated with the upkeep, maintenance and management of the
entire software delivery environment.
DevOps-based managed services help organizations identify vulnerable process areas
to rectify and improve code and provide feedback for continuous improvement. Code-
scanning detection also helps identify code weak points and anomalies and improvement,
providing improvement assurance. When there are fewer issues, the value-stream operates
more efficiently, placing less stress on the IT teams, including the infrastructure they
leverage to produce and reliably deliver.
Bolt-on services, such as application management support, DevOps release services and
DataOps management, provide relief to internal resources to refocus on more innovative
projects.
6 Continuously Compliant Operations
Achieving compliance is just the beginning. However, maintaining it can be a challenge,
especially in a cloud environment. Managed cloud services ensure that organizations meet
compliance, security and control requirements for your workloads. With technical guardrails
and continuous compliance scanning, along with defined policies and procedures,
compliance becomes less of a top concern.

Hitachi Vantara can help you manage your cloud infrastructure with proactive monitoring
and process automation while providing accelerated focus on security and compliance.

Get Started >

Contact us today 1-858-769-1555 to speak to a Hitachi Vantara


cloud expert to successfully manage your cloud operations.

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