{"id":3735,"date":"2012-09-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/sep\/21\/adopt-a-balanced-approach-to-private-clouds\/"},"modified":"2012-09-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:00:00","slug":"adopt-a-balanced-approach-to-private-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/adopt-a-balanced-approach-to-private-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt a balanced approach to private clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Software &ndash; IT Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users are unsure of &ndash; or have very different views on &ndash; what constitutes a private cloud, which makes any survey about the subject rather meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>They approach private clouds from a variety of viewpoints including bottom&ndash;up versus top&ndash;down, technology versus design, and long-term versus short-term perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Ovum does not advocate moving from a short-term, technology-centric, bottom-up approach to a long-term, design-centric, top-down approach, but we do believe the latter is more useful than the former.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ovum report, <em>Cloud Computing Needs Service Level Management<\/em>, Ovum advocates a balanced approach according to specific company requirements and culture, based on a shift from supply-led to demand-led IT.<\/p>\n<h3>Look at private cloud from all angles<\/h3>\n<p>The bottom-up viewpoint is that of the IT department. It looks at private clouds from a data centre industrialisation, consolidation, and standardisation perspective based on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>virtualisation technologies (to &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Software &ndash; IT Solutions<br \/>\nUsers are unsure of &ndash; or have very different views on &ndash; what constitutes a private cloud, which makes any survey about the subject rather meaningless.<br \/>\nThey approach private cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}