re: Do Private Clouds Make Sense?

Quoting myself, I posted the following to the infosysblogs article, "You gonna buy a house, or rent one?"

It's an article about some of the issues around private cloud computing feasibility more or less.  My thoughts were:

I thought this was an interesting article and the numbers you show are mostly inline with my own research in my endeavor to provide enterprise cloud computing services as a hybrid private community cloud.

I've also been writing some of my thinking about these same issues at my own blog, www.productionscale.com.

In general, I think that there is beginning to be some maturity and consensus as to the various cloud deployment models with the work of NIST, Jericho, and others.

Also, the realization for most that cloud computing is not a specific technology. It is much more an operational and architectural model emerging into broader use and understanding from many years of great work in various fields of computer science.

In my opinion, private clouds of different types make great sense. In particular when you consider security, compliance, and transparency issues related to enterprise utilization of such things.

Comments

[Bhavin Raichura]

Yes Kent - private cloud does make sense, and thanks for quoating us on your blog - http://www.productionscale.com/.

The point is - should enterprise "buy" private cloud ? OR should they "lease" it ? OR should they "build" it in-house leveraging existing infrastructure? I tried to bring that perspective through a very basic illustration.

I also liked your proposal of hybrid private cloud - I also agree that - it is a "right" way to go - A real world case study for hybrid private cloud - with practical constraints and cost-benefit analysis would definitely be a billion dollar idea to publish.

You can also find these posts interesting - Business Case @ Cloud and Hands On: Building a Private Cloud using Open Source Solutions Part 1: Setting up Cloud Infrastructure using Eucalyptus Open Cloud Platform.

[Rick Lebherz]

Interesting question.
Treb Ryan spoke of this recently as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTFh8SQl6qw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opsourcecloud.net%2F&feature=player_embedded

Private Clouds make sense as do Private networks in the cloud.
As you get into the enterprise and serious applications that have very unique requirements it will become more needed and the end users will almost expect it.

This is still in beta, but keep an eye on OpSource.
www.opsourcecloud.net