Best Practice Report

Select Your Optimal Hosted Private Cloud Strategy

We Identified The Best Practices For The Five Common Hosted Private Cloud Adopter Profiles

January 1st, 2018
Lauren Nelson, VP, Research Director
Lauren Nelson VP, Research Director
With contributors:
Laura Koetzle , Glenn O'Donnell , Michael Caputo

Summary

There is no single strategy or journey to the cloud that describes the experience of all or even most organizations’ adoption path, and trying to glean a single approach from all of the adoption patterns leads to poorly aligned expectations. We identified five common profiles of firms using hosted private cloud today: 1) hosting customers seeking improvements; 2) disaster recovery (DR) specialists; 3) external cloud first-timers; 4) internal private cloud realists; and 5) public-cloud-first firms expanding into private. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals should identify which of these five hosted private cloud profiles maps their use case, and follow the corresponding best practices for that profile.

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