Seven Best Practices to Optimize Application Delivery in Cloud and Hybrid Environments

While many early cloud computing deployments favored niche infrastructure-centric services such as PaaS and storage-related services, there has been a distinct move towards a more application-service-centric model over the last 18 months. Managing application services in cloud and hybrid environments, however, can mean many things — from trying to get meaningful SLAs from SaaS providers and monitoring and optimizing service options across physical infrastructure, internal cloud, and external cloud to assuring application performance across internal and hybrid virtualized infrastructures.