Why the private cloud has stalled
June 2, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Eric Knorr.
The appeal of making your own data center cloudlike is easy to understand: Who wouldn’t want an entirely flexible commodity infrastructure, where you can pour on compute, storage, and network resources as needed? From the early days of the cloud, CIOs saw promise in the cloud’s magic combination of reduced cost and vastly greater agility and wanted to capitalize on cloud architecture in their own organizations.
But those closer to the ground in enterprise IT have always had a tendency to roll their eyes. They see the advantage of scale-out, self-service architectures for some applications — such as dev and test — but the return on investment in other areas is not always so obvious. Part of that resistance is the usual allergic reaction to change, because major shakeups mean fewer resources to meet project deadlines and keep legacy systems humming…
But there are also very good reasons why the private cloud is taking so long to take hold. The two leading ones are the immaturity and expense of available private cloud solutions…
Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/why-the-private-cloud-has-stalled-243505