Private cloud is moving towards practice in a step-by-step way

For operations in the public cloud that you feel a little bit uncomfortable, the average expert will tell you to try the private cloud. But "for you, it is not so easy for you to build or manage a cloud directly inside your data center," says Joe Tobolski, director of cloud computing at Accenture.

"A lot of technology companies are distorting the real meaning of the inner cloud," he says, "when they think the cloud is a cloud that can be formed by spraying clouds of dust on the data center after people go out and buy it." This is absurd, there is no scientific basis for the argument. ”

The internal deployment of private cloud from data center consolidation, operating system, hardware and software platform rationalization, as well as server, storage and network virtualization began to become many leading IT organizations have been searching for the cloud.

He adds that flexible and pay-as-you-go pricing strategies are guidelines, which means standardization, automation, and commercialization of it. This goes beyond infrastructure and configuration resources, "This is also about application building and user it experience."

Still, we are in the early stages of the internal cloud. According to Forrester, a market analyst, only 5% of the world's big companies are capable of running an internal cloud, half of which may have deployed an internal cloud, says James Staten, the company's chief analyst.

But if you're interested in exploring private cloud computing, here's what you need to know:

First step: Standardize, automate, and share resources

The three internal cloud-building techniques proposed by Forrester coincide with Accenture's proposed rules for next-generation it.

To build a preset cloud, Staten says, you must have a standardized process for manipulating, deploying, and maintaining the cloud environment.

Most businesses are not yet standardized enough, although businesses that follow the IT information base (ITIL) route in IT service management are closer to the goal than others.

A standardized operational process that enables efficiency and consistency is critical for the next base layer-automation.

Automatic deployment may be the best starting point because it has self-service capabilities. This is not Amazon mode for a private cloud because any developer can deploy the virtual machine on its own. "This will cause confusion within the enterprise and is totally unrealistic." ”

In contrast, for a private cloud, self-service means that the enterprise has formed an automated workflow in which resource requests need to pass an approval process.

Once approved, the cloud platform automatically deploys specific environments. More often, private cloud self-service means that developers say they need "3 large virtual machines, 1 large storage volumes, and bandwidth." "For end users who need resources from internal companies, self-service may be" I need a SharePoint volume or a file share.