CA Cloud offers Canada-focused OpenStack private cloud solution

February 13, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Danny Bradbury.

Vancouver-based firm CA Cloud is offering CIOs the chance to run their own private cloud implementations, using open sourced cloud platform OpenStack. The benefits of cloud computing are well understood: elasticity, cost-effectiveness, and the option for automation and self-provisioning of services.

For many companies, moving to a public cloud-based infrastructure (where lots of customers share a single server) is too risky. Heavy regulation and compliance issues, along with their own security concerns, may prevent them being part of a multi-tenanted environment. Many may not have the time or resource to build up a cloud infrastructure outside their own organisation…

Private clouds, are another option, in which the same automation benefits are provided on a dedicated computing system for a single customer…

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