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Private cloud

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A private cloud is a computing service offered either over the internet or a private internal network to selected users (your company) only, not the general public. Being a cloud service, private clouds have all the cloud benefits of self-service, scalability and elasticity with additional control and customisation. Private clouds deliver a much higher level of security and privacy.

Key Use-Cases

 

  • Critical Services



    Private cloud solutions are suited to run mission critical or legacy applications where migration to public cloud can be prohibitively expensive, especially in cases where the applications are due to be retired long term. This approach can enable businesses to continue to utilise in-house developed applications until they are due to retirement.
  • Large Volume Storage



    In many cases the most surprising cost for clients moving to public cloud are in relation to data storage, private cloud solutions traditionally offer high performance storage solutions in a more cost-effective manner when we are discussing large volumes. It may be that your business wishes to avoid the expense of large volumes of data in a public cloud environment in this case private cloud may be more suitable to your requirements.
  • Consolidation and migration



    Migrating from an on-premise solution can be a key rationale for moving to private cloud. It may be that you have a significant quantity of off-site legacy servers that do not warrant individual dedicated servers and would benefit from virtualisation. There could be multiple reasons for the desire to migration including cost efficiency or the ease of operational management, regardless, a private cloud solution could work for your business.

    The key benefit of utilising private cloud for a migration is that the environment can be prepared with a view to migrating the workloads over time. With this model you gain all the benefits of cloud and reduce operational costs without expensive application development or modernisation.
  • Expansion



    It may be that you want to expand an on-premise solution with new cloud capacity without the cost of purchasing new hardware. A private cloud solution would enable your business to develop cloud-native applications within an environment similar to the one the business already operates on-premise.




  • Portability



    Modern private cloud solutions enable business to optimise capacity and workloads by location and the most suited infrastructure for the task in hand. By utilising standardised solutions workloads can be moved to other cloud environments with ease.
  • Performance



    The performance of applications and workloads can be optimised easily. Solutions can be expanded based upon resource requirements on a geographic basis. Resources can easily be reallocated or expanded to avoid application issues.
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery



    Private cloud solutions build resiliency into hosting solutions due to the architecture implemented, this in conjunction with a solid off-site backup strategy can help you achieve more piece of mind. These solutions can be spanned across multiple datacentres which can aid with disaster recovery and business continuity. Should there be an issue at the primary location, operations can switch over to the secondary location.
  • Compliance and Data Sovereignty



    Governance, security and compliance can be a project driver. As more legislation is passed understanding your cloud infrastructure is more important now than ever before. With a private cloud solution, you are in charge of these aspects and can optimise environments around requirements.

OpenStack Private Cloud

  • Dedicated distributed architecture private cloud solutions.
  • Varying options dependant on customer compute and storage requirements.
  • Suitable for medium to large solutions.

Microsoft Private Cloud

  • Hyperconverged hardware solutions with S2D (Storage Spaces Direct) and Hyper-V.
  • Full resiliency utilising clustering services.
  • Backup solutions with Replication.
  • Suitable for small to large solutions.

VMware Private Cloud

  • Hyperconverged hardware solutions with vSAN and vSphere.
  • Fully resilient clusters utilising vMotion and VMware HA solutions.
  • Backup solutions utilising Veeam.
  • Suitable for small to large solutions.