Friday, January 28, 2011

What's the cost of Public vs Private Cloud

Cost comparison is per user seat. Still need to deal with the headaches, when going private, and balance it with perceived peace of mind regarding security. You definitely will be able to save a ton of money, when getting rid of your own hardware and network. Well worth looking into.

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Public vs Private Cloud Computing

There are as many definitions of cloud as there are technology bloggers. However, the major theme is that a Public Cloud provides IT resources that are provisioned remotely from the consumer and operated by a third party.

In a Private Cloud, the infrastructure policies are governed by a single organization where workloads and data can be moved to and from internal and external data centers. Private Clouds provide an organization a single point of control for security, manageability, privacy, audit, compliance and governance.

However the business case for engaging in a public or private cloud strategy involves several factors, the most important being business revenue and/or budget.

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