Preparing Your Business For Private Cloud Migration

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Andy Maier.

Many businesses have not transitioned to cloud computing due to fears about the “openness” of the public cloud. Businesses and IT departments worry about losing control of their data, cloud security and sharing data space with other companies. An alternative to the public cloud platform model is private cloud.

Difference between Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

Many business professionals and IT admins are still confused about the difference between hybrid cloud and private cloud. A hybrid cloud solution involves both the public and private cloud. Basically, these deployments use a combination of public cloud with private or dedicated infrastructure…

A private cloud platform typically sits behind a company’s firewall and within the company’s own data center. Private clouds are usually multi-tenant like your typical public cloud, meaning that you share cloud infrastructure but rather than sharing with the general public the sharing is internal to the company across organizations and projects…

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