I have talked before about my views on private cloud, I believe in using the technology of the cloud in business just not that this makes it a private cloud. Whatever it is called though there is no doubt that making your business data centre behave like the Cloud has value.
It has operational value in the short term but in the long run what it is doing is preparing you for the trip to the real Cloud. It trains your administrators to work in this way, and your users to accept the underlying mechanisms but without having to risk placing your data out side of company control. It is this one risk that is holding back the adoption of the Cloud as a whole.
The Cloud vendors know this though and are working hard to clear away these issues. Eventually they will raise confidence in their services so far that companies will trust that their data is secured. Not only that mechanisms will evolve that will help you to buy a service from one vendor and then change vendor later in the day. I believe this will work something like it does with Mobile phone vendors today.
If you have implemented Cloud technology in your data centre then as soon as you have confidence in the Cloud you can just shift the internal services. The chances are this could be done pretty transparently possibly even without a service break. Whilst I still believe going to Cloud services for some services is right for a lot of companies right now, implementing your own Cloud Technology is a really good transitional step it that is a risk too far.
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