Before the advent of Cloud technology, the purest meaning of the cloud conjured up soft white puffy images against a back drop of clear blue skies.
Or
Grey, turbulent pillow puffs overlapped by ominous darkness to warn of deadly weather which left us with memory strands of the illustrious blue.
But when cloud is paired with Rihanna?
Well,
We have cloud talk.
Did you see the fashion awards last week? Couldn’t she have benefited from a few clouds in strategic places?
Benefit?
It’s my award, I can wear a naked dress if I want to.
Um…
I have found that a dialogue is often more engaging for stimulating conversation…
So lets refocus our cloud talk to explore why the private cloud has stalled.
Shall we?
According Eric Knorr’s article, “Why the private cloud has stalled,” that was published in Information World on June 2nd, there are two main reasons:
The immaturity and expense of available private cloud solutions.
Because the notion that rare is valuable persists on all levels of society, it has wormed its way into cloud talk. Therefore IaaS, which is one of the three major solutions of the OpenStack framework in addition to commercial IaaS solutions from Microsoft and VMware, would be adapters of the private cloud are caught in a quandary.
So what is OpenStack?
It is an open source infrastructure as a service initiative that creates and manages large groups of virtual private servers in a cloud computing environment which makes it critical to the process of a private cloud deployment.
Go ahead, applaud me. I wanted to make sure rare language did not confuse you. So I chose to define it for you.
This quandary presents real questions characterized by a murky and winding pathway to answers:
- Will our OpenStack deployment inhibit future flexibility once a packaged version is chosen from the likes of HP, Rackspace, RedHat or Ubuntu?
- Is the cost associated with professional services for the deployment justifiable?
- Will the Microsoft DIY hybrid cloud solution which brings together both Windows Server and System Center to provide private cloud infrastructure and a bridge to the Azure public cloud become stable enough as an alternative?
Are you caught up in the private cloud net and struggling to get free?
Share your concerns and let’s continue our cloud talk.
