Private Cloud

When Should You Choose a Hosted Private Cloud?

A private cloud may be a better option than public IaaS for organizations with strict security, performance, and control requirements. By choosing a private cloud platform, you gain many of the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining a distinct IT environment with exclusive hardware.

Public cloud services can be designed to the same measures of security, privacy, and performance as traditional IT environments. However, some organizations still select private instances for select workloads, including:

For Critical Applications and Service Level Agreements

While many applications require some tuning to get the desired performance, those applications and processes that are critical to revenue or business performance often need extra configuration and carry aggressive SLAs. A hosted private cloud runs on dedicated resources for production and more control over both configuration and geographic location.
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For Protecting IP

If your organization depends on information technology for product delivery or if engineering is key to your line of business, consider a hosted private cloud to extend your on-premise resources while protecting intellectual property. Hosted private cloud allows for innovation while mitigating risk.
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For Regulatory Compliance

If data sovereignty is a concern but you have cloud initiatives, a hosted private cloud might offer a higher degree of transparency than public cloud services. A hosted private cloud is often friendlier to specific audit requirements or documentation of data movement on physical infrastructure.
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For the Risk Averse

Organizations who have historically been conservative about off-premises resources, as well as those who are transitioning legacy applications, may find private cloud to be an ideal stepping stone from a traditional data center to more elastic IaaS.