With the advent of cloud computing, companies are trapped with their desire to adopt the flexible and scalable model without relinquishing control over their data. As a result, private cloud is the current rage among corporate.
What is a Private Cloud?
By definition, a private cloud is a cloud hosted on the in-house server of the company. But it isn’t synonymous to traditional a data center. It enjoys scalability where the server capacity dynamically adjusts to changes in demand. Furthermore, it ensures high availability and stability against possible chances of outage.
Setting up a private cloud based service will demand changes in your IT environment. You would need to adopt virtualization as the first step towards constructing private cloud architecture. You may also need to expand your current IT capacity to enable scalability and user chargeback.
Building a Private Cloud
This step-by-step guide discusses the phases involved in building a private cloud in an organization:
Building infrastructure:
Strategic consolidation:
Optimization through virtualization:
Introduce automation:
Alignment and orchestration:
Orchestration ties heterogeneous automation process to IT resources through service catalog and self-service portals. The orchestration suite may also include chargeback functionality which will help mapping the usage of your cloud. Orchestration completes setting up of virtualization architecture in your organization.
Private cloud is likely to remain the top choice for large and medium enterprises who intend to invest in expanding their technological base in favor of virtualization. A survey conducted by Gartner has revealed that in 2012 almost 75% of companies were in favor of setting up on-premise cloud environment. But the decision regarding it shouldn’t be a hasty one. One needs to determine if his organization is cloud ready before virtualizing its operation. Private cloud isn’t an end goal but it’s a business strategy and needs to be incorporated within the operation system.
By: Charles Smith
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Stephan Cico, SR Director, TigerCloud
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