IT Expert Voice

For private cloud computing to be more than an exercise in glomming on to the latest buzzwords, technology managers need to dodge pitfalls – starting with making sure that they are truly doing something new and useful.

As a market niche, private clouds capitalize on interest in on-demand pools of computing and storage resources, like those offered by Amazon.com, or application and platform technologies like those offered by Salesforce.com. But that interest is tempered by the conservatism of some technology managers reluctant to trust applications and data to external service providers. Software and hardware vendors are quick to suggest enterprises can achieve some of the same flexibility with internal implementations of similar technology. READ MORE