The Growing Adoption of Private and Public Clouds | Part 1

Grazed from CloudComputing Expo.  Author: Sarah Williams.

While technology changes on a regular basis, IT teams have had a standard approach to administration. In recent years, however, there has been a drastic shift in data center administration. One of the biggest shifts is the adoption of private and public clouds. In part one of this series, we will examine private cloud architectures.

Today, companies keep more and more data electronically in lieu of hard copies. Whether they are large multi-layer Photoshop images or files that need to be kept in order to comply with medical or financial regulations, files are getting bigger and there are certainly more of them. Historically, companies would have a series of onsite servers, a backup and retrieval system, miscellaneous supporting hardware, and lots of documented procedures. This would ultimately lead to a never-ending need for new capital expenditures. Above all, one of the biggest issues IT admins wrestle with is managing and adding server space to accommodate all those ever-growing files. Enter the cloud…

According to a forecast from IDC, worldwide spending on hosted private cloud (HPC) services will be more than $24 billion in 2016. Many enterprise organizations are now looking to private cloud architectures as a more efficient solution to the ongoing storage fight. A private cloud would be implemented inside the corporate firewall in order to keep the system secure and available only to employees. A cloud-based architecture is also financially prudent as well as simple to adapt as business needs change…

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