Best Practice Report

Q&A: How To Get Private Cloud Right

From Scoping To Sizing To Incenting Use: Unconventional Thinking Is Required

James Staten
 and  three contributors
May 25, 2011

Summary

Recent Forrester inquiries from enterprise infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals show that there's still significant confusion between infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds and server virtualization environments. As a result, there are a lot of misperceptions about what it takes to get your private cloud investments right and drive adoption by your developers. The answers may surprise you; they may even be the opposite of what you're thinking. This report reviews the common questions about private cloud implementations and how unconventional thinking leads to a better implementation. Key findings: Your cloud should be smaller than you think, cheaper than the math justifies, and if marketed right, attractive to a skeptical developer audience.

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