Element Management vs. Service Orchestration

One continual theme that comes up around any strategic discussion of fully virtualized environments and private clouds is management . There aren't any tools!. There are too many tools!. The tools don't work the way I do! So what's going on here? Some Basics When we talk about private clouds, of course everyone is interested in resource efficiency, but the real prize is operational efficiency: doing things better, faster, cheaper and more reliably with less human effort. As