Three mistakes that can doom your private cloud design from day one

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Nick Martin.

Cloud computing may be the next logical evolution of virtual data centers, but rushing into a private cloud design can create more problems than it solves. Unfortunately, many companies (or at least C-level executives) fall into the trap set by software vendors and believe that they need a cloud yesterday — and that building one is as simple as selecting a product.

Once on this path, it doesn’t take long for most to realize building a private cloud is much more complicated than paying for licensing and management software, said Ivan Pepelnjak, chief technology advisor at NIL Data Communications, at an Interop session. "I can’t tell you how wrong this approach is," Pepelnjak said. "And I see this happening with about 80% of the customers I see…

The most important question is not ‘OpenStack or vCloud Director?’ The most important question is, ‘What do you want to do?’" In fact, most companies aren’t actually looking for a private cloud at all, Pepelnjak said. What they really want is the ability to automate some parts of VM provisioning. To be a true private cloud, IT must offer more…

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