In the early days of cloud computing, private clouds promised the scalability, elasticity, and manageability of public clouds combined with the security and control over on-premises data center environments.
For many years, however, it seemed this promise was unjustified, as vendor ‘cloudwashing’ obscured the sad fact that rather than being the best of both worlds, private clouds were actually the worst.
Early private clouds, in fact, were neither private nor clouds. Many such clouds either ran in public cloud environments (thus undeserving of the appellation ‘private’) or suffered from a lack of any cloud benefits.
Today, however, private clouds have taken a prime position in the pantheon of hybrid IT – a mix of public and private clouds as well as on-premises virtualized and legacy environments.
Do today’s private clouds finally warrant some respect? Or are they simply vendor cloudwashing 2.0?
Read the entire article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/02/02/have-private-clouds-finally-found-their-place-in-the-enterprise/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, Pure Storage is a current Intellyx customer, and IBM, Microsoft, and VMware are former Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Seeweb, Karen Roe, and Jason Bloomberg.
