Private Cloud as a Service delivers OpenStack, ensures governance

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Caitlin White and Michelle Boisvert.

Enterprises wary of moving mission-critical data off-premises to a public cloud provider such as Amazon may find an OpenStack private cloud fits the bill.  But private clouds can be costlier than public clouds, and relatively few IT employees have OpenStack skills.

"We had quite a bit of developer need for self-service; we were spending quite a bit of time on deploying images for developers and just needed to get out of that for my team," said Joe Specht, senior director of system infrastructure at Seattle-based Tableau Software.  Tableau adopted Metacloud’s "Private Cloud as a Service" product a little more than a year ago to help out…

"We were probably averaging three days to deploy an image for dev, and now they can do it in mere seconds," he said.  Metacloud’s service, an OpenStack-based software called Carbon|OS, is akin to using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model to deliver private cloud. This approach appealed to Tableau, which has a lot of internal code systems the company’s IT teams "do not want to exit the building," Specht added…

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