Public Debate About Private Clouds

Posted By Rich Miller On August 27, 2008 @ 7:56 am In Cloud Computing,SaaS | 2 Comments

There’s been more discussion in recent days about “private” clouds in enterprise data centers, as opposed to “public” clouds running on infrastructure from third-party service providers. Some relevant links:

Build Your own Cloud With Cisco VFrame ^[1]: Greg Ferro looks at how early components of Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 initiative can help (link via Doug Gourlay ^[2])
Private Clouds, Before & After ^[3]: Hypothetical discussion among your IT staff.
Private Cloud Links ^[4]: A list of resources from the OnSaaS aggregator.

About Rich Miller ^[5]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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URLs in this post:

[1] Build Your own Cloud With Cisco VFrame: http://etherealmind.com/2008/08/21/enterprise-cloud-computing-build-your-own-cisco/

[2] Doug Gourlay: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/building_clouds_with_network_equipment/

[3] Private Clouds, Before & After: http://www.appistry.com/blogs/bob/private-clouds-before-and-after

[4] Private Cloud Links: http://onsaas.net/2008/08/24/private-cloud-links/

[5] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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Public Debate About Private Clouds

About Rich Miller [5]

About Rich Miller ^[5]