Private cloud wrongly carries a loose definition of data in one’s own data center or managed by a provider. That is infrastructure not a cloud. A cloud must be made up of the following characteristics:
It must be automated in terms of deployment and management
It must be API driven
It must have elasticity
It must be self-service
In some instances, it must have some concept of multi-tenancy.
A private cloud allows you to automate a lot of your daily operational tasks and gives users some control over those tasks. By taking away tasks from individual persons and handing it to software, you are empowering your cloud to create its own networking, provision its own storage and allowing it to manage its own path. If you are still manually creating tasks in your environment, you may want to rethink your “cloud” strategy.
What questions should you be asking before building your cloud architecture?
In some cases a private cloud does not always fix problems and can even create more. Be sure to have a clearly defined directive for use in your private cloud.
Not all data needs to be put in a private cloud. Discuss what data is mission-critical and how much growth you anticipate in the future.
Some require certain technical features such as load balancing or the need to exist in 2 different locations. Some have certain compliance requirements which may cause the need for additional security or added steps in the approval process. Make sure your private cloud is tailored to your needs.
The thing with cloud is that they do not like to share. Importing an existing environment and workloads can be extremely difficult so make sure to have a migration plan in place.
Some clients prefer to outsource the whole thing while others would rather build and run it themselves. Two of the biggest reasons why a company will deploy their own private cloud are:
- Costs
- Security and Control
Some things that are forgotten:
- How are you going to back it up?
- Do you need some type of disaster recovery?
- What do you do for availability?
Who is Private Cloud for?
Private cloud isn’t really defined by a market segment or size. It is for environments that are more dynamic, where change and adaptations are integrated quickly without human intervention. If I want to create another network or firewall rule, I should be able to do that within the private cloud environment without having to wait on someone in the IT department.
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