The deployment of a private cloud in an enterprise enables the sharing of resources within and outside the enterprise. The biggest feature of private cloud distinguishing from public cloud is security and reliability. Companies can enjoy the same characteristics and benefits as public clouds with private clouds. This includes the scalability, self-service, and scalability of the public cloud.
 
 
Microsoft's private cloud is optimized for service delivery, providing sufficient flexibility and control to provide powerful cloud power to the enterprise. Microsoft offers customers a unified, familiar platform across physical, virtual, private, and public cloud environments, so you can take advantage of the investments and skills that are currently available, and enjoy the new value of the private cloud.
 
With Microsoft's private cloud, you can implement heterogeneous management across physical and virtual environments, standardize and automate data center processes, and provide insight into business requirements, so you can manage your applications and services end-to-end in a more efficient way.
 
Microsoft Cloud Applications
 
Take full advantage of the power of the cloud: powerful identity authentication, application framework, development, and management tools that span your entire private cloud and public cloud environment, enabling you to build, run, migrate, or extend applications to the cloud platform with sufficient flexibility and controllability to kick-start your cloud drive.
 
By building a private cloud based on Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and System Center, you can fully gain the full benefits of Microsoft's cloud services and radically change the way IT services are delivered to the business.
 
There are two modes of cloud services available in a private cloud environment: infrastructure as a service (infrastructure as a Service,iaas) and platform as a service (Platform as a Service,paas). With IaaS, you can use IT infrastructure resources (computers, networks, and storage) as services, and PaaS to provide the application platform as a service.
 
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