There are many other private clouds coming to market that offer similar sorts of benefits.
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These open source private clouds are far from the only solutions companies are pursuing.
Off-premise private clouds, such as hosted private clouds and virtual private clouds, are gaining a substantial following.
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Increasing requirements for business agility, reducing costs, and improving efficiencies has forced organizations to implement private clouds.
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Many CIOs end up sticking with private clouds due to perceived concerns about cost, security, and reliability.
Hybrid public-private clouds are being built out, by the likes of Hewlett Packard and IBM, as well as VMWare.
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Of those surveyed, 40% are using public clouds, with 43% using private clouds.
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However, the direction most agencies are going is private clouds, the survey finds.
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It will be in de-skilling work and then migrating this to private clouds that crowdsourcing earns its stripes, though.
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But there is a huge divide in what people mean by private clouds.
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With private clouds, enterprises maintain all the equipment and software, while seeking to offer resources through a virtualized service layer.
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Private clouds are created and managed by the IT department to extend applications and functions as services across the enterprise.
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In fact, the survey finds strong support for private clouds, which is where CIOs and IT departments will retain their clout.
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Public cloud, private clouds, and hybrid clouds: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud deployment models?
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The research found that 54% of organizations are already using public or private clouds, still leaving plenty of room for industry growth.
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Companies that implemented private clouds also incurred 38 percent fewer costs related to security and compliance events compared to public cloud users.
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Generally, private clouds are needed to drive the levels of availability needed, and this can be cost prohibitive, thus defeating the value of cloud.
He described this as a hybrid approach, whereby customers can transfer their applications back and forth between private clouds on-premise, and ones hosted by Oracle.
Many companies with seem happy with their own private clouds. huh?
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In parallel to the expansion of the public cloud, many organizations have started to deploy their own private clouds for internal applications and content (archival) storage.
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The survey also finds a majority of enterprises, 63%, already have underway or are planning migrations to public or private clouds for core applications, including ERP.
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The speed, along with the management between public and private clouds, is likely to be a big differentiator IBM salesmen make against competitors like VMWare and Microsoft.
But at least one new survey (sponsored by Microsoft, by the way) finds that enterprise IT managers see private clouds as a world apart from public clouds.
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At Oracle, the strategy is to be offer solutions at all levels of the cloud stack, optimized to work together seamlessly in private clouds, public clouds, or hybrid combinations.
Private clouds are the safest way to learn what the cloud can do for your business and offering a choice between those two alternatives will cover the needs of most CIOs.
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Just as traditional systems management solutions like Oracle, BMC, CA, and IBM solutions enable CIOs and their operations teams to manage their private clouds, Newvem enables CIOs to onboard and improve AWS cloud usage.
But without such information, IT is going to be flying blind when it comes to making huge decisions about whether to adopt SaaS-versions of applications, build new data centers, create private clouds, or use public cloud resources.
And that same seamlessness, he said, should extend across not only public and private clouds but also hybrids and on-premise software: to everyone above the administration layer, the underlying platforms should be unknown, nondisruptive, and irrelevant.
Service providers like Equinix, Logicworks and many others, offer private clouds that are essentially turnkey systems in which the infrastructure is separated and dedicated, but otherwise the cloud works just like Amazon Web Services, the Rackspace Cloud, or other public clouds.
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