Why private hosting represents the future of the enterprise IaaS Cloud

Grazed from PeakColo.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Although public cloud vendors first pioneered the infrastructure-as-a-service hosting model, the private enterprise IaaS cloud represents its future. Companies increasingly want to leverage the scalability and flexibility inherent in cloud environments without having to worry about the security and latency issues inherent in public hosted settings. As a result, businesses are more frequently adopting dedicated hosting environments for their IT infrastructure, Giridhar Lakkavalli, head of vmUnify solutions at Mindtree, wrote in a recent CRN UK guest post. 

Part of the issue was that public hosting environments became victims of their own popularity. Lakkavalli wrote that as more businesses opted to place their IT infrastructure in the cloud, the amount of space and speed available on a given server dwindled. Unless the public cloud provider was able to provision more processing power and dedicated servers to one client – which is never a given in shared settings – companies were not able to have the ideal hosted solution in place. As a result, a cloud service provider able to offer dedicated server space and connections became a far more attractive option to many organizations…

"But the accelerating growth of user demand for infrastructure, coupled with ever-present restrictions on IT budgets and staff, has created a dilemma: How do you cost-effectively scale operations to serve the rapidly growing needs of your user base, all while staying aligned with the core business?" Surgient CTO Dave Malcolm wrote in Network World. "The obvious solution is to transition to a cloud-based infrastructure delivery model: the promise of better utilization, higher productivity, and truly dynamic IT is impossible to ignore. While some public cloud options look attractive, a private cloud is the way to go."…

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