Best Practice Report

Q&A: Understanding Private Clouds That Failed

Identifying Commonalities Of Unsuccessful Private Clouds

September 6th, 2016
With contributors:
Glenn O'Donnell , Clare Garberg , Diane Lynch

Summary

It's hard to get private cloud right. Forrester has lamented its lack of success for years, pointing out how few private cloud environments met basic functionality requirements. But infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros want to know more. Rather than just focusing on best practices, Forrester clients want to understand how and why private cloud environments have failed. When do enterprises abandon private cloud? What do these environments have in common? This report answers the most common questions Forrester receives about unsuccessful private cloud environments.

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