Private Cloud Trends in 2012

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

  • Forrester forecasts the market for private cloud solutions will grow from $7.8 billion in 2011 to $15.9 billion in 202
  • Gartner: High-impact technologies
  • Complexity of integrating internal security, auditing and compliance processes with external cloud services is a major plus.
  • Client interest in deploying private cloud services is on the rise.
  • Different enterprises have different goals, but lower cost is the most important.
  • Most enterprises are building private cloud services based on virtualized infrastructure, so the path from virtualization to private and hybrid cloud computing is laid out.
  • As virtualization becomes more common, enterprise deployments will begin to slow, and there will be a gradual increase in virtual machines provided by infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers.
  • For the midmarket to transform to leverage private and public cloud computing, the channel needs to change its capabilities and role.
  • Private clouds are catching up with the public cloud Joneses.
  • Private clouds put public cloud costs in context.
  • Private clouds emerge, with a focus on cost-aware service delivery
  • Most organizations are incrementally implementing private cloud computing, rather than wholesale rip-and-replace of their IT architectures.
  • Gartner polling data shows that approximately one-third of IT organizations already having implemented private cloud computing solutions.
  • QoS concerns fuels the rise of Private Cloud
  • Half of all server workloads will be virtualized by 2012.
  • Small and midsized enterprises started virtualizing later than larger enterprises.
  • Large enterprises tend to deploy incrementally; small and midsized enterprises tend to virtualize all at once.
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