Interop Preview: Expert Advice On Building Private Cloud
February 21, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
The private cloud computing model isn’t a slapped together virtualization environment, with a few management bells and whistles thrown in on top. Instead, it’s a standardized set of pooled data center resources that allow end users to self-provision virtual servers, which run in a highly automated fashion.
If you don’t plan for such an architecture, you won’t get to real cloud computing, warns Dave Roberts, a frequent writer on the private cloud topic as co-founder of LeverHawk, a blogging site he shares with Scott Bils, discussing wide ranging cloud issues. Roberts is also a senior director of solutions marketing at BMC in Houston, Texas…
On May 7, he will be the lead instructor at the Private Cloud workshop of the Enterprise Cloud Summit at this year’s Interop Las Vegas. Roberts will tap other experts to join him in panels and sessions during the daylong workshop, part of the Cloud Computing and Big Data track. Last year, the topic might have been "Public cloud vs. private cloud," but this year, "people have put that debate behind them. Every enterprise customer I know is building out private clouds," said Roberts in a recent interview…
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