In fact, RightScale makes it possible to manage multiple public clouds as well as private ones.
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Most of the applications deployed on public clouds can be classed as embarrassingly parallel, i.e.
That means offloading some scut work to public clouds, while retaining internal policies around data quality.
And they knew that while public clouds could create difficulties for companies, so could private cloud solutions.
On the one hand, they have the promise of scalability of public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
But the particular structure of public clouds can sometimes make them more vulnerable than user-owned and -managed networks.
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Most consumers are likely to use public clouds, and Lenovo will provide infrastructure as a service, likely from Amazon.
Of those surveyed, 40% are using public clouds, with 43% using private clouds.
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Public clouds like Amazon Web Services need not be just for consumer Internet companies like Netflix and Pinterest.
As public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web servers are also growing.
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Companies typically transition to the cloud because the end users are already familiar with public clouds, which offer excellent service at a low price.
By leveraging Web standards and private or public clouds, any organizations can be as responsive, accessible, and adaptable as the best consumer Internet services.
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But at the same time, new applications are being written for virtualized environments, and accordingly, companies want and need access to private and public clouds.
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Public clouds from the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft simply are not enough to satisfy all the computing needs of enterprise IT organizations.
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Because the commercial sector constantly innovates, DOE labs and centers should continue to benchmark their computing cost against public clouds to ensure they are providing a competitive service.
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At last check the community devoted to the creation of open source software for building private and public clouds now numbers more than 6024 members from 84 countries.
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.
Enterprise CIOs should consider the cost and labor saving benefits of public clouds when used with cloud management services that analyze potential cost spiral issues, utilization issues, and security vulnerabilities.
In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
Despite the Amazon outage, the fact is that public clouds now provide organizations with an impressively wide array of options to implement business continuity at a level of affordability that simply did not exist a few years ago.
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It is the most widely used Linux on the top 1000 websites by traffic, the reference platform for OpenStack deployments, the most popular guest OS on public clouds, and ships on PCs from Dell, Lenovo, HP and other brands.
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That IaaS product is CloudForms, which provides a policy and governance structure, so that enterprises can move to the cloud safely and securely, and run and manage applications across physical and virtual servers, and in many types of public clouds.
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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Hybrids can be a mix of legacy systems, newer architectures, and private clouds in enterprise data centers together with service provider offers such as colocation for custom resources, micro-nodes, hosted private, virtual private, and public clouds, he says, arguing that such architectures require a rich set of network capabilities to integrate into a seamless whole.
Hybrid public-private clouds are being built out, by the likes of Hewlett Packard and IBM, as well as VMWare.
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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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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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