Private Cloud For Effective Business Computing Solutions

The IT Landscape today has found its nirvana in the concept of the cloud. Cloud Computing has moved from a concept to a reality. It has followed the original concept of providing convenient on demand resources and consolidation across IT workloads in enterprise-wide (Private) or World-wide (Public) deployments. The CIO today is harnessing the concept of on demand IT for his workloads and balancing the same on a consolidated platform.

"Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network

access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks,

servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned

and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction"

The private cloud offers an opportunity to a business enterprise to create a virtualized IT architecture on its own terms with the internet as a backbone for facilitation. The applications reside on the organization's hardware, within its network along with the data. The IT infrastructure is distributed across the enterprise LANs and WANs. A private cloud offers the same benefits as that of a public cloud – cost reduction, asset utilization, information availability, rapid deployment of new services, and business agility - sans the security risks. In the future as the need may be, a private cloud can also serve as a gateway to the public cloud, enabling a business to make use of the growing array of services available on a public cloud, while keeping business-critical information systems 'inside' the private cloud.

IDC, a premier IT research firm, views private cloud computing as maturization of the evolution of the IT data center, and sees virtualization as the necessary stepping tone to the private cloud environment. While public cloud computing raises issues of reliability, data security, system protection, compliance and governance, none of these concerns are as prominent with the private cloud.

As clouds were formed, they were either labelled as Private (Enterprise-wide) or Public (world-wide) with the single largest differentiators being the security component. This slowed the adoption of cloud in the security conscious enterprise domain and led to deployment of private clouds in the traditional method of CAPEX investments for projected work-loads and once again the CIO's being saddled with extra compute capacity than the average

Many organizations have adopted the cloud and are reaping the benefits of a cloud computing platform, there are still concerns with the handling of sensitive information on a public cloud platform. For such organizations an alternate option is available, and it means having their own private cloud.

 

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