If you absolutely must do a ‘private cloud’ thing, here’s how
September 23, 2015
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Dave Cartwright.
I dislike the term “private cloud". As far as I’m concerned, there’s really no difference between what I’d call a “traditional” homespun virtualised infrastructure and what they call “private cloud” these days. As Gartner puts it, private cloud is: “A form of cloud computing that is used by only one organisation, or that ensures that an organisation is completely isolated from others.”
Frankly, you could remove the word “cloud” and not notice the difference. And, don’t think by saying the word “private” that your cloud is “on premise". Your systems could well live in a data centre somewhere in the country, or the world. The bottom line, and what we’re talking about, is the fact you are the one with control over this cloud – and nobody else is sharing the infrastructure…
All this is important, because what matters are the concepts – not the funky new names for them. So, if you do opt for private, what should the strategy should you adopt?…
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