Private cloud (also called internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a marketing term for a proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people and business units within the same corporation. As always with cloud computing, private clouds must adhere to the standard cloud computing model.
Virtualization and distributed computing have laid the foundation for datacenter administrators to seriously contemplate the move to a private cloud. With emerging abstraction and management layer software packages, such as Cloud Director or Chargeback suites, administrators effectively become service providers that meet the needs of their "customers" within the corporation. This is accomplished via tight governance of highly powerful modular commodity hardware that can be cut into many small pieces while allocating network and storage resources through predetermined policies.
Daymark can help you assess the benefits of this approach in your environment by analyzing your requirements against common driving factors for private clouds, including:
- Enhanced business agility and flexibility enabled by a fully virtualized environment
- Greater hardware utilization and “right sized” application resource consumption
- Improved delivery times of resources to end users
- Self-service architecture for business units to consume IT resources
- Simplified business unit chargeback or showback
Daymark’s 10+ year history in IT virtualization is a distinct advantage for you. We’ll work with you to define where your infrastructure needs to be today to achieve your objectives, and where it needs to be tomorrow. As the private cloud market matures and the cloud consumption model begins to show signs of value for mid-market customers, Daymark will be ready to guide you into the next generation of IT utilization.