Private Cloud & Solutions

Private cloud is the phrase used to describe a cloud computing platform that is implemented within the corporate firewall, under the control of the IT department.Private clouds offer an ideal way to solve some of your organization's biggest business and technology challenges. A private cloud can deliver IT as a service. This helps reduce costs, raise efficiency, and introduce innovative new business models to make your enterprise more agile and efficient while simplifying its operations and infrastructure.

A private cloud is designed to offer the same features and benefits of public cloud systems, but removes a number of objections to the cloud computing model including control over enterprise and customer data, worries about security, and issues connected to regulatory compliance.

Private clouds offer the power, efficiency, and features of a public cloud, with the security, control, and performance of a dedicated environment. But private clouds are complex to operate. They require experts who understand cloud architecture and know how to upgrade, patch, secure, monitor, and scale a cloud environment.

A private cloud is a software-defined data center that combines essential hardware and other computing resources into a unified virtualized unit. A private cloud’s layer of hardware and networking abstraction – again, provided by software – enables enterprises to scale and provision resources more dynamically than is possible with traditional hardware-centric computing environments.

In contrast to public cloud computing, a private cloud is typically hosted within a company’s firewalls. Alternately, some companies host their private cloud with an external third party provider, which allows these deployments to tap into external compute resources on an on-demand basis.

Ideally, a private cloud allows businesses significant cost savings over legacy hardware-based deployments. It also enables far greater flexibility, and – in contrast to a public cloud – much greater security and privacy.

With a managed private cloud by Rackspace, we take care of the infrastructure and management, giving you the cloud expertise you need so you can focus on your core business.Extend the value of your existing collaboration investments. Cisco open and interoperable solutions allow you to take advantage of new cloud services and ‘cloud-connect’ them with your existing infrastructure. We offer a wide range of solutions from the Cisco Cloud, private cloud solutions, and Cisco Powered cloud services from certified partners.

The face of IT is changing. The public cloud is rapidly expanding, offering software and computing infrastructure on demand, anywhere access from any device, and payment based on usage. It’s increasingly attractive to business units that thrive on innovation, time to market, and bottom-line contribution.

Furthermore, over 70 percent of an IT budget is often spent on maintenance. As a result, data growth remains explosive, infrastructure is under capacity or underutilized, and pressure to lower costs is constant.

Moving from silos to delivering IT from a common, virtualized, self-service pool of resources—a private cloud—benefits the entire organization. However, it also requires new roles, skills, and processes, a robust and secure cloud architecture, worry-free deployment of critical applications, and intelligent metering.

 

Technology Solution

 

EMC Solutions for the Private Cloud enable enterprises to transform and deliver IT-as-as-service (ITaaS) with:

• Greater agility and efficiency – Increase and accelerate business returns with cloud-optimized storage, protection, and resource management, coupled with expert consulting and education.
• Seamless integration – Leverage over 90 points of integration with VMware, proven infrastructures from EMC VSPEX, jointly developed systems from VCE, and expertise in Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat, and OpenStack virtualization and cloud management.
• Broad trust – Strengthen security, achieve compliance, manage risk, and uphold governance.
• Proven results – Gain from extensive experience delivering private cloud solutions for customers worldwide and within EMC.