Private clouds considered a detour on the road to public cloud

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Alex Barrett.

The value of building a true private cloud is murky at best, and five years from now, the push to build private clouds may be remembered as a detour along the road to the ultimate destination: widespread use of the public cloud. In a panel discussion entitled, Building a Private Cloud: Is It Worth It?, at the Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference here last week, IT professionals with and without private clouds discussed the security, cost and management implications of building and operating a private cloud.

Implementing the private cloud on top of an existing VMware Inc. vSphere environment is a way to free up staff from doing low-level tasks, such as spinning up new servers, according to Bob Plankers, a virtualization and cloud architect for a major Midwestern university, and who runs VMware vCloud. "The cloud is about a lot of non-technical things," Plankers said. "I look at staff time spent. Are we able to take advantage of what the humans are good at?"…

A private cloud can also help offset high costs in the public cloud, said Daniel Bozeman, solutions architect at Mosaik Solutions, a provider of geospatial network coverage information in Memphis, Tenn. The company is a large consumer of Amazon Web Services (AWS)…

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