Tag Archives: Private

Every week it seems we hear about another large enterprise moving a major chunk of workloads to AWS or some other public cloud. Meanwhile, the private cloud—once considered a vital part of the enterprise’s future—gets no respect. “The enterprises that … Continue reading →

Having a full understanding of end user experience has been theorized in IT circles for decades but has remained as elusive as the Holy Grail or the Fountain of Youth. Some people claim to have seen it, but no one … Continue reading →

Nate Baechtold, Enterprise Architect at EBSCO Information Services, says it was going to be too hard to automate the company’s VMware environment so the firm shifted to OpenStack, which natively abstracts underlying components much like AWS.  But the next sticking … Continue reading →

Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, says Project Zun gives enterprise IT a new reason to reconsider OpenStack for private clouds. InformationWeek: Cloud

Nokia’s total cost of ownership study finds most enterprises can save 25% of data center costs by converting it to private cloud. InformationWeek: Cloud

Red Hat just announced that it is making Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 available. This release is based upon the OpenStack ‘Newton’ release and is designed to increase system-wide scalability, simplify management and improve workload orchestration. It will also enhance … Continue reading →

Rackspace, a company that was an early player in the cloud market, is being forced to evolve or continue to be left behind. The cloud and web-hosting company announced today that it’s being acquired by Apollo Global Management, a U.S.-based … Continue reading →

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. A private cloud enables enterprises to secure and control applications and data while providing the ability for development … Continue reading →

The second largest car manufacturer in the world, Volkswagen Group, will use the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack to build a private cloud that will host websites for its brands VW, Audi and Porsche, and will be a platform for … Continue reading →

Small businesses with global ambitions will soon have a new cloud partner — at least wherever Vodafone has data centers. Vodafone Total Cloud Flex is a virtual private cloud service that can be managed via a self-service portal, and directly … Continue reading →

‘Private cloud’ is a term people throw around a lot – but what is it exactly? +MORE CLOUD CHRONICLES VIDEOS: A look back at 2015 – a year of big moves in the cloud + Just having a highly virtualized … Continue reading →

Microsoft released the first technical preview of its Azure Stack private cloud platform last week. This product will allow customers to incorporate features from the Azure public cloud with their own data centers. Why would you want to do that? … Continue reading →

Salesforce users can now run an app in isolation by using a private network on the multi-tenant Heroku development platform. InformationWeek: Cloud

CHRISTUS Health is a sprawling healthcare operation headquartered in Irving Texas, with primary acute care facilities in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mexico, Chile and, coming soon, Colombia, as well as long-term care facilities in Georgia, Iowa, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Lynn … Continue reading →

Seattle, Wash. (PRWEB UK) 9 February 2015 Blue Box—a Seattle-based provider of on-demand private cloud as a service (PCaaS) on dedicated hardware—is headed to London next month to kick off a proof of concept program aimed at helping European customers … Continue reading →

McLean, VA (PRWEB) February 12, 2015 Secure cloud hosting and compliance expert AIS Network is now delivering a managed, High Security Private Cloud to clients who require full compliance with HIPAA/HITECH, PCI, FISMA and other stringent regulatory standards. The solution … Continue reading →