Research from Platform Computing, taking in the responses of more than 100 senior managers at the International Supercomputing Conference in June, has discovered that the adoption of private cloud technologies will increase steadily as 2009 progresses.
The reason is simple: companies are looking to cut costs without impacting performance.
When citing potential stumbling blocks, 21% of the responding companies cited security as an obstacle. Security, however, does not need to be a hurdle. Public and private clouds are similar to public access and private company WiFi networks - the latter of which, if the firm's IT managers are on the ball can be highly secure.
The reason? The cloud is wholly under the control of the company and, if it outsources, it can mandate its supplier with service level agreements, as well as adding multiple security measures.
The early adapters of private clouds will be companies that use resource-heavy systems such as simulations and modeling applications. But we predict that others will follow, since moving to the cloud is the latest trend.
Private cloud also solves an issue that companies are wrestling with when using the public cloud. Is corporate information in danger of being accessed by a foreign government entity? Or by cybercriminals?
With in-house IT security resources and web security vendors available, private cloud computing gets the thumbs up for leveraging the benefits of cloud computing while ensuring a higher level of security. We see private cloud for enterprises as a trend to watch!
As Paul Bell, president of Dell Americas, told eweek: "No question that for security reasons, this [private cloud computing] is a very strong trend for our customers."
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