The ABC of Private Cloud

"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"

CtrlS is India’s first and only Tier 4 certified data centers in India. Credited with the achievement of a PUE of 1.42, CtrlS runs the most energy efficient Tier 4 datacenters in India and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies by NASSCOM, the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industries in India. CtrlS Cloud Hosting and private cloud infrastructure provides an organization with total control of the cloud services. An in-house information technology department will be able to handle every aspect of the administration.

Private Cloud is an Ideal Cloud Solution For Organizations

Many businesses are looking into the cloud environment, but they don't express interest in divide and use policy. To handle this partitioning resource issues private cloud is helpful. It is an architectural and well planned private network. It assets your business enterprise by a part of the cloud that is reliable to execute your programs safely. Itd benefits enterprise with the flexibility and aids like scalability and at inexpensive prices. On transforming to a private one simply rely on the public clouds to get more enhanced security features of the cloud to protect valuable business data. Shifting to a virtual private cloud policy is an initiation to use more independent services and features like automated workload management, self-service interfaces and chargeback, and helps clients access at a max rate.

Providing Security to valuable data is primary goal for any business firm. With the help of private cloud all your data resides at your firm's personal firewall. In business firm the security to data is

Offered until the virus protection gets monitoring and executing all the security measures properly. To get more security in contrast to your premises due to the Upgraded versions of security policies implemented on the cloud. It enables you to set up a customized server so you can easily customize the resources like space, CPU, and storage as per firm requirements. It platforms tend to progress along with the business firm gains you with more customized premises.

Maintenance and future expenses incurred due to building setup affects the investment greatly in case of small and medium enterprises. On constructing a cloud platform, the provider to look after the maintenance costs ensures proper maintenance. On the you need to simply rent a segment in the cloud to execute and store your business data. In business firms at times the critical data is lost due to several factors.

Hosting provider manages multiple servers, to travel your business data from one place to the other, at time of server crisis. Having a private cloud to your firm guarantees more redundant features due to its tailored premises. In case of large business enterprise, they need multiple servers for proper running of the process, the issue elevates with by management and up gradation costs. Even placing them and power incurred by servers is a problem. With your private cloud setup as the dedicated server, eventually reduces all your expenses. The main aid of the cloud computing is its flexibility. It benefits you with virtual environment. This helps the business to make use of personalized and customized software in a cloud so they get security, and cost saving benefits.

Private cloud hosting helps your firm in distinct ways and ensures smooth running of the enterprise in a secure and safe environment. Small and medium organizations can easily transform to private cloud premises to save unnecessary expense and focus in their business operations without sharing their resources.

Cloud Computing – 'Voice of the Service Provider'

P Sridhar Reddy CMD, CtrlS in conversation with Enterprise Channels

What kind of uptake are you seeing for cloud computing in India?

As more companies migrate toward the cloud and data becomes readily accessible, ensuring the protection of enterprise data will remain a top priority in 2013.Our experience with the CIOs of all the organizations is really overwhelming when it comes to discussing and adopting private clouds. Enterprises that have a large infrastructure within their internal data centers are looking to host their UAT / Test platforms on Private clouds. The enterprises are initially moving their UAT platforms, new projects, non-core projects onto the hosted private cloud models. Organizations strongly feel that the private cloud is intermediate step before adopting the public cloud. When these non-core move to public cloud, we will see the core move to the private cloud.

What are the benefits of moving to the cloud vis-a-vis using in-house servers?

With characteristic features of scalability, greater resilience without redundancy, zero CAPEX and reduced costs and disaster recovery, it is the harbinger of good tidings to its subscribers, such as the minimization of in-house IT infrastructures, substantial cost savings, and diminished administrative hurdles, thereby appearing as an appealing outsourcing proposition for Enterprises. Moving to cloud bridges the ever growing gap between demand and supply of IT requirements.

In the enterprise market, what are the key expectations from the customers for cloud computing? How prominent is the growth for public, private and hybrid clouds?

Enterprises look for scalability and security while considering vendors for Cloud. CtrlS cloud provides cloud computing infrastructure and services so you can move quickly from an idea to production – without the pain of large capital outlays and long-term vendor contracts. This flexibility also comes with all the security, cost stability, and enterprise-grade performance of a dedicated world-class private data center.

What applications are most suited for the cloud? Are you seeing mission-critical applications moving to private/public clouds?

Almost all kind of applications except those working on mainframes, Unix hardware are suitable for public cloud. At CtrlS we have implemented DR for the Unix based hardware like Pseries, Sun which run mission critical apps as well. Surprisingly some of the customers who need 100% uptime and scalability are aggressively pursuing private/public clouds. These customers are usually tech savvy companies like ecommerce, payment gateway companies etc.

What are the challenges that you face in finding the skilled people to work on such projects? Do you see a skill gap in the market? What are you doing to bridge that gap?

There is a serious skill gap as most of these are new concepts and demand skills in not just applications but also in networking, internet, storage and security areas. At CtrlS, we started a training academy which has various courses ranging from 100 hours to 6 months full time.

What are you doing in order to enable partners in the cloud computing space?

We offer white labelled public cloud platform and offer consulting help to our partners to win large deals.

Source :issuu.com/smechannels.com/docs/enterprisechannesls_march_2013

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How To Get To Private Cloud For Your Business

      The steps most organisations will need to undertake to get to an initially private or hybrid clouds, and potentially public cloud hosting in future, are as follows:

• Understand what services your business requires from your IT function. Define your Service Catalogue based on this.

• Review the required service levels needed for each of the defined services, include resilience and data security.

• Define and agree the services you want to provide internally and those that can be hosted or provided by a third party.

• Measure the current resources you require to deliver the internally provided services to the require service levels.

• Review your current infrastructure and look for all opportunities to simplify, rationalize and standardize what you support and how you manage it.

• Virtualize every element you have not already done so where it is technically and commercially appropriate to do so; this includes desktops.

• Implement a common user portal where all users access all services whether provided internally or by a third party.

• Refine and improve your operational processes to take advantage of the new environment.

• Implement suitable internal charging mechanisms so all users/departments can understand the costs of the services they are using.

• Review cost of internal service provision against what commercial cloud providers can offer for the same level of service.

• Monitor every service provided whether in house delivered or externally to ensure it meets agreed service levels.

 Although organizations are excited about using cloud technologies to bring in IT spend efficiency in the organization, they are still apprehensive about data security when migrating to the public cloud, but while Private clouds are really secure, they are also expensive.  Tier 4 certified Data centers offers a solutions that cuts mid-way.

CtrlS Tier 4 certified data center India offers secure private cloud that helps an organization to organize and manage the technology better.

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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