No real private clouds yet?

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Private skyer? Når det regner på præsten ...
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Private clouds? Rain drops keeps falling ...
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Dmitry Sotnikov 

In the world of cloud computing we are living in very exciting times. Cloud Computing is the buzz word of the day even though the segment is barely two years old. Interest in private clouds is even more astonishing considering that these barely exist at all and we are likely to be only entering the first days of real developments in this area.

In a nutshell, private clouds are Amazon-like cost-effective and scalable infrastructures but run by companies themselves within their firewalls.

There are a couple of reasons why this is an interesting option for a lot of enterprises out there:

1. Some data and systems belong on premise due to security and legal concerns, or simply companies wanting to stay in control.
2. The story of not having to provision and manage hardware resources when using public clouds from Amazon and others sounds great but the reality is that enterprises already have hardware of their own. Instead of tearing down datacenters in which they have been investing all these years - why not start to use them more efficiently?

These are the reasons why both enterprise and government structures (you don’t expect Department of Defense to use Amazon for their apps, do you?) are very interested in pursuing the private cloud option, and analysts like Gartner are giving the concept their high blessing.

Surprisingly enough, I would argue that no real solution is currently obvious on the market. [...]

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Read more: http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/01/16/no-real-private-clouds-yet/

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