Results from our private cloud poll. We asked about plans for the internal IT infrastructure and how it will mesh with external cloud resources, so opinions about software as a service are largely factored out of the responses to the latest survey. I don’t mean that in a pejorative way: SaaS is simply better understood than the other forms of cloud computing, including internal private clouds, and that comes through in our survey. Whereas 18% of survey respondents report using SaaS apps and another 31% say they’re extremely likely to use SaaS, no other form of cloud computing shows even 10% using it or more than 20% extremely likely to use it in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let’s face it, it’s an ongoing battle to get security, performance, reliability, auditing, and availability all right. Even when the benefits are undeniable, it’s still a good idea to go slow, a lesson that should have been relearned with server virtualization.<\/p>\n
Boosting server utilization by a factor of 10 and consolidating lots of underused systems is a great thing, but the virtual server sprawl that quickly followed is a management nightmare.<\/p>\n
Moving fully to cloud computing implies virtualizing storage and networking and putting a healthy bet on the capabilities of those not-so-mature management tools.<\/p>\n
The main business reasons for moving to private clouds are lowering ongoing costs, reducing capital investment, and accelerating delivery of services.<\/p>\n
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