Five reasons to use a private cloud

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular. Yet only 25% of IT companies are actively building private clouds. Why is this happening? Many it operators have told me that they are really interested in cloud computing, but there is not enough time to look at the benefits that cloud computing can bring to the business.





the advice I can give is a famous quote from the American revolutionary pioneer Paine: "Either lead the tide or follow the trend, or go away." "It's time to consider using a private cloud," he said. Otherwise, you will find yourself and your company left behind by competitors. Here are five reasons I've listed for using private cloud computing services.





1. You need to do this.





today's economic environment is still challenging for IT companies. Companies are considering tweaking it budgets and cutting IT staff. Many business leaders and C-level executives are actively seeking alternative approaches (unlike traditional it) to handle their business.


Some public cloud services become their choice.





Software is a service (SaaS) or Business process processing (BP) service. These services include customer relationship management (CRM) applications, such as Salesforce.com, e-mail outsourcing services, or payroll handlers provided by ADP, paycom.


low-cost, convenient Web services, from the block storage to the database and virtual server platform, covering a wide range. (Think of Google and Amazon Web Services).


user cloud clients, such as the now very popular icloud.





you have to be aware of the various attractive advantages of cloud computing and consider how you can make your own it firewalls work like this.





2. You can do it.





Perhaps the private cloud is not as remote as you might think. Virtual servers supported by the data store are not difficult to run. With advanced virtualization technology, you can virtualize various resources to transfer between different servers, networks, and storage.





Cloud computing has many features of virtual technology. Like the following:





Convenient


Flexibility High

High degree of
standardization


Service Oriented





and all you need is the vision, determination, and it leadership to build a private cloud. You also need an integrated IT team (server, storage network, and application support) to work together.





3. The initial cost of the private cloud.





creating a private cloud can save about 25% of the cost of using a service provider's cloud services. The infrastructure required by the cloud provider is not much different from what you need, but they need to earn extra profits.





using Cloud Products (SaaS or BP services) may be more cost-effective than using service providers. But what about the highly professional or security-sensitive programs that run in your database? No fewer than 10 companies have told me they intend to migrate 40% of their infrastructure to the cloud platform. But when it comes to these questions, most of them realize that their ideas are unrealistic.





4 Your private cloud/infrastructure can be shared among different business applications





for most business it programs, the technology of an external cloud service provider must be mature enough to provide services that meet security requirements and share the infrastructure. Most vendors even require that key programs be rewritten to fit the cloud.





and once the private cloud is built, it services within the enterprise become much easier. These services are more responsive to the enterprise's internal systems and specific goals.





5, mastered the "baton", mastered the cloud computing





When using private cloud computing, you need to be aware of coordination with the environment. It's like directing an orchestra. You need to know a lot of areas: from the requirements of the resource configuration to the virtual device cycle management. You even need to be aware that those programs should be handed over to the outsourced cloud service provider.





Finally, you also need to learn how to manage the public cloud, the private cloud, and the mix of the two, which combines the characteristics of both cloud services and your most likely direction of development.





Many service providers want to play the role of "conductor" and manage your IT infrastructure. With a private cloud, you can choose to be the conductor.





this way, you can control the operating costs of each program. Even if you give some of your business to the cloud provider, you still want to be in control of your programs and resources. You still want to compare the cost of raw materials with that offered by the service provider. The private cloud can help you achieve the following:





find the optimal internal and external resource integration scheme.





, based on cost and performance, identifies the right infrastructure, the service (IaaS), and retains the ultimate purchasing power and control capabilities.





above are five reasons to use a private cloud (and more reason to not hesitate).


 

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