{"id":2171,"date":"2012-06-18T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytothecloud.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:55:00","slug":"the-private-cloud-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-private-cloud-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Private Cloud Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having read JP Rangaswami\u2019s argument against private clouds<\/a> (and the obvious promoting of his version of cloud) I have only to say that he\u2019s looking for oranges in an apple tree.\u00a0 His entire premise is based on the idea that enterprises are wholly concerned with cost and sharing risk when that can\u2019t be farther from the truth.\u00a0 Yes, cost is indeed a factor as is sharing risk but a bigger and more important factor facing the enterprise today is agility and flexibility\u2026something that monolithic leviathan-like enterprise IT systems of today definitely are not. He then jumps from cost to social enterprise as if there is a causal relationship there when, in fact, they are two separate discussions.\u00a0 I don\u2019t doubt that if you are a consumer (not just customer) facing organization, it\u2019s best to get on that social enterprise bandwagon but if your main concern is how to better equip and provide the environment and tools necessary to innovate within your organization, the whole social thing is a red herring for selling you things that you don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n

Traditional status quo within IT is deeply encumbered by mostly manual processes\u2014optimized for people carrying out commodity IT tasks such as provisioning servers and OSes\u2014that cannot be optimized any further, therefore a different, much better way had to be found.\u00a0 That way is the private cloud which takes those commodity IT tasks and elevates them to automated and orchestrated, well defined workflows and then utilizes a policy-driven system to carry them out. \u00a0Whether these workflows are initiated by a human or as a result of a specific set of monitored criteria, the system dynamically creates and recreates itself based on actual business and performance need\u2014something that is almost impossible to translate into the public cloud scenario.<\/p>\n

Not that public cloud cannot be leveraged where appropriate, but the enterprise\u2019s requirement is much more granular and specific than any public cloud can or should allow\u2026simply to JP\u2019s point that they must share the risk among many players and that risk is generic by definition within the public cloud.\u00a0 Once you start creating one-off specific environments, the commonality is lost and it loses the cost benefits because now you are simply utilizing a private cloud whose assets are owned by someone else\u2026sound like co-lo?<\/p>\n

Finally, I wouldn\u2019t expect someone whose main revenue source is based on the idea that a public cloud is better than a private cloud to say anything different than what JP has said, but I did expect some semblance of clarity as to where his loyalties lie\u2026and it looks like it\u2019s not with the best interests of the enterprise customer.<\/p>\n

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Having read JP Rangaswami\u2019s argument against private clouds (and the obvious promoting of his version of cloud) I have only to say that he\u2019s looking for oranges in an apple tree.\u00a0 His entire premise is based on the idea that enterprises are wholly concerned with cost and sharing risk when that can\u2019t be farther from…Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,524],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-public-cloud","tag-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}