5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures
June 3, 2013
Grazed from Network World. Author: Christine Burns.
According to Piston Cloud Computing’s CTO, the rate at which his customer’s pilot projects turn into production private clouds is pretty typical of most OpenStack-based providers – and it’s pretty low. “Roughly for every 20 pilot projects we open up, we see one of them make it into production,” says Josh McKenty, who prior to founding the Seattle-based Piston, worked at NASA and served as a technical lead on the project that evolved into OpenStack, one of three open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platforms vying for enterprise attention.
So why do the other 19 drop off? Good question, admits McKenty. According to analysts, developers and cloud practitioners, the answer turns on miscommunication (between corporate IT department and their potential “customers”), dependencies (on beloved features of gear sitting in the data center or on the network) and unruliness (of applications not built to run on the cloud at inception)…
In an effort to increase the chances of Network World readers landing a successful private cloud deployment, these experts offer up some tips on how to avoid the typical pitfalls. 1. Get out of the data center and talk to all business influencers. This will help IT execs get a better idea of how the private cloud will eventually be used, advises Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus, an open source private cloud provider with close ties to Amazon’s public cloud scheme…
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