No single package provides all five elements of FCAPS.

SMI stands for Service Measurement Index.

BMC Cloud Computing Initiative is used for Cloud planning, lifecycle management, optimization, and guidance.

Taken as a unit, OpenID and SAML are being positioned to be the standard authentication mechanism for clients accessing cloud services.

Storing data in the cloud is of particular concern.

Keys should have a defined lifecycle.

The OpenID is presented to a service that provides access to the resource that is desired.

Tivoli Service Automation Manager lets you create and stage cloud-based servers.

Compliance, governance, and liability levels are stipulated under the contract for the entire stack.

The management services include an Operations Manager, the Windows Service Update Service (WSUS), a Configuration Manager for asset management, a Data Protection Manager, and a Virtual Machine Manager, among other components.