There’s confusion — as well as passionate debate — over the definition of a private cloud. When we say private cloud, we mean a highly virtualized cloud data center located inside your company’s firewall. It may also be a private space dedicated to your company within a cloud vendor data center designed to handle your company’s workloads.
The characteristics of the private cloud are as follows:
✓ Allows IT to provision services and compute capability to internal users in a self-service manner
✓ Automates management tasks and lets you bill business units for the services they consume
✓ Provides a well-managed environment
✓ Optimizes the use of computing resources such as servers
✓ Supports specific workloads
✓ Provides self-service based provisioning of hardware and software resources
You might think this sounds a lot like a public cloud! A private cloud exhibits the key characteristics of a public cloud, including elasticity, scalability, and self-service provisioning. (Please refer to Chapter 1 for detailed information on cloud characteristics.) The major difference is control over the environment. In a private cloud, you (or a trusted partner) control the service management.
It might help to think of the public cloud as the Internet and the private cloud as the intranet.
If private and public clouds are so similar, why would you develop a private cloud instead of ordering capacity on demand from an Infrastructure as a Service provider or using Software as a Service? Here are several good reasons companies are using a private rather than a public cloud:
✓ Your organization has a huge, well-run data center with a lot of spare capacity. It would be more expensive to use a public cloud even if you have to add new software to transform that data center into a cloud.
✓ Your organization offers IT services to a large ecosystem of partners as part of your core business. Therefore, a private cloud could be a revenue source.
✓ Your company’s data is its lifeblood. You feel that to keep control you must keep your information behind your own firewall.
✓ You need to keep your data center running in accordance with rules of governance and compliance.
✓ You have critical performance requirements, meaning you need 99.9999 percent availability. Therefore, a private cloud may be your only option. This higher level of service is more expensive, but is a business requirement.
Some early adopters of private cloud technology have experienced server use rates of up to 90 percent. This is a real breakthrough, particularly in challenging economic times.
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The characteristics of the private cloud are as follows:
✓ Allows IT to provision services and compute capability to internal users in a self-service manner
✓ Automates management tasks and lets you bill business units for the services they consume
✓ Provides a well-managed environment
✓ Optimizes the use of computing resources such as servers
✓ Supports specific workloads
✓ Provides self-service based provisioning of hardware and software resources
You might think this sounds a lot like a public cloud! A private cloud exhibits the key characteristics of a public cloud, including elasticity, scalability, and self-service provisioning. (Please refer to Chapter 1 for detailed information on cloud characteristics.) The major difference is control over the environment. In a private cloud, you (or a trusted partner) control the service management.
It might help to think of the public cloud as the Internet and the private cloud as the intranet.
If private and public clouds are so similar, why would you develop a private cloud instead of ordering capacity on demand from an Infrastructure as a Service provider or using Software as a Service? Here are several good reasons companies are using a private rather than a public cloud:
✓ Your organization has a huge, well-run data center with a lot of spare capacity. It would be more expensive to use a public cloud even if you have to add new software to transform that data center into a cloud.
✓ Your organization offers IT services to a large ecosystem of partners as part of your core business. Therefore, a private cloud could be a revenue source.
✓ Your company’s data is its lifeblood. You feel that to keep control you must keep your information behind your own firewall.
✓ You need to keep your data center running in accordance with rules of governance and compliance.
✓ You have critical performance requirements, meaning you need 99.9999 percent availability. Therefore, a private cloud may be your only option. This higher level of service is more expensive, but is a business requirement.
Some early adopters of private cloud technology have experienced server use rates of up to 90 percent. This is a real breakthrough, particularly in challenging economic times.
Source of Information : cloud computing for dummies 2010 retail ebook distribution
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