Cloud Management Optimization – Issues and Developments

Cloud computing is the current technology paradigm that portends the greatest potentials to revolutionize the way IT activities are conducted. Cloud computing influences most known areas of activities in human endeavour. The cloud provides easy to use applications that can be accessed online at any place and time. Cloud computing also allows organisations and enterprises to create and deploy own applications. In addition, the cloud offers extendable storage facilities, inclusive of processing capabilities. The cloud utilizes various data centres with physical machines or servers for storage and computing purposes. These data centres consume a high amount of energy. The electricity utilization is high and it continues to increase. The servers and cooling machines consume a lot of energy, hence the need to manage this in an optimal way. The study was executed by means of review of some literature available on cloud management optimisation. This study examines issues and developments of cloud management optimisation and also present a recommendation for future research. The result only 25% of the core papers examined discussed the issue of cloud virtualization as it relates to cloud management optimisation. This outcome will offer insight for further work in cloud management optimisation.