Private Clouds, Continued

• The Argument FOR Private Clouds ^[2]: Cisco’s James Urquhart capsulizes the issue: “Internet has intranet. Cloud computing has private clouds. Similar disruption, localized scale.”
• The Case for Private Clouds ^[3]: Reuven Cohen offers his take: “I believe cloud computing is a metaphor for the Internet as a infrastructure model, therefore a private cloud is applying that model to your data center, whether it’s closed to the outside world or not is secondary”
• Mixed Metaphors: Private Clouds Aren’t Defined By Their Location ^[4]: Christofer Hoff at Rational Survivability writes that location is a distraction and private clouds “make a ton of sense as an enabler to enterprises who want to take advantage of cloud computing for any of the oft-cited reasons, but are loathe to (or unable to) surrender their infrastructure and applications without sufficient control.”

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] Are Private Clouds an Oxymoron?: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/19/are-private-clouds-an-oxymoron/

[2] The Argument FOR Private Clouds: http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10145450-240.html

[3] The Case for Private Clouds: http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/01/case-for-private-clouds.html

[4] Mixed Metaphors: Private Clouds Aren’t Defined By Their Location: http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/mixing-metaphors-private-clouds-arent-limited-to-internal-location.html

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

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