Every business is different, and their infrastructure is sure to follow suit. However, just as there are standards within best practices for cloud, so too are there consistencies where cloud platforms are concerned.

When we say cloud platforms, however, we don’t mean open or closed clouds, like Rackspace versus AWS. Instead we are referring to public, private and hybrid clouds.

A recent Business Technology Roundtable blog post delved into an IDC study, finding that companies are increasingly leveraging hosted private clouds. IDC points to the hosted private cloud as the new backbone to the infrastructure services,

“…transforming existing provider models for IT outsourcing, hosting infrastructure services, and other key IT industries.”

But what accounts for private cloud’s ascendance? While public cloud will always have a larger audience private clouds get to the heart of what businesses need: dedicated infrastructure that supports the compliance requirements of data.

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