private cloud strategy. Storage works with servers, which communicate across networks, which combine to create a seamless experience for virtual workloads.
These technologies are available today, but you won’t
always be able to make them part of your cloud strategy overnight. With hardware refresh cycles the way they are, it may take a few years for this new equipment to make its way into your data center. What you can do for now is plan for its arrival.
Here’s why: You learned a decade ago that building
white-box servers from scratch might be loads of fun, but these dissimilar servers and their configurations grow unmanageable as the infrastructure scales upward. Unless you begin planning for converged infrastructure now, you’re doomed to relearn a similar lesson with your entire data center, and your homemade virtualization hardware won’t scale to meet your needs.
Step 4: Let Go To really achieve the benefits of cloud computing,
you need to get over your fears about security and loss of control.
Private cloud computing is the first step toward a future
where IT services can be flexibly hosted wherever they make sense. Sometimes it makes sense to host those services in your local data center. Other times, it makes
more sense to let someone else do the hosting in a public cloud.
Bridging these two methods are an evolving series
of technologies that secure the connection, protect the information, and create the hybrid cloud experience. Both your cloud services vendor and your virtualization platform vendor can now share with you the current and future vision for these products, because they are today— finally—products that you can actually see and feel.
Trusting the Future of IT Not long ago, there was the notion that a thin wafer of
plastic could never be a secure mechanism for purchasing goods and services. The credit card, with little more than a series of numbers and a magnetic strip, was a commerce vehicle that people weren’t ready to trust.
Today, we have a level of trust that’s become so engrained we don’t think twice when we purchase something. It’s a perfect metaphor for the evolution of trust we’re seeing in IT today. Private cloud computing is one part of that trust, and its bigger brother, public cloud computing, isn’t far behind.
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Keep Your Head
in the Clouds And Your Data on Demand
One of the most common reasons organizations consider cloud computing is to reduce TCO and minimize IT infrastructure investments. However, the biggest benefit is agility. Using the cloud, you can deliver IT services more efficiently, simplify provisioning and deployment, and rapidly scale to meet your unique needs.
Call your Account Manager today to learn more about how cloud computing can benefit your organization. 1.800.369.1047
Cloud Options
• Public: IT services shared by multiple organizations, managed by an external provider
• Private: Pooled internal resources of a single organization, delivered on demand
• Hybrid: A mix of private and public cloud infrastructures
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