Private cloud’s very public failure

February 10, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Matt Asay.

No wonder private cloud vendors have started calling themselves "hybrid" clouds: the private cloud vision has failed — utterly and completely. Gartner analyst Tom Bittman asked why 95% of private clouds are failing, but the answer seems clear: the very notion of a privately provisioned cloud service is contradictory and nearly always doomed. Unfortunately, the odds of failure may skyrocket when enterprises turn to OpenStack.

Fail early, fail often

Roughly five years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive Andy Jassy spotlighted the problem with private clouds: "Companies usually are not able to provision accurately the amount of data center capacity that they require, and this problem recurs when they create their own internal cloud infrastructure."…

In theory, it shouldn’t be this way. As Dean Hampstead told me, "A large company should be able to do private cloud cheaper than public." And, at some point, companies will find it advantageous to bring computing in-house at a certain scale. As Twitter’s Chris Aniszczyk suggested, "Private cloud benefit can be relative to size/scale."…

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