Is there still a business
case for private cloud?
A discussion with Rackspace CTO, John Engates and Navica CEO,
Bernard Golden, moderated by Cloud Technology Partners SVP, David Linthicum.
Listen to the full podcast at cloudtp.com/podcast
In 2013, we saw many CTP clients using OpenStack
based tools for their private cloud initiatives. Fast forward to 2016 and public cloud is 3.5x the size of private
cloud adoption, according to a Wikibon report. As more
features and functions are released by the public cloud
providers, enterprises are rightfully asking where the
private cloud business case exists anymore.
Despite the increasing popularity of public cloud’s
on-demand, pay-per-use model, private cloud still has a
place in the enterprise, and its adoption continues to
grow across platforms. There remains legitimate reasons to own and manage your own technology infrastructure, and private clouds bring some of the benefits
of cloud principles to such data center deployments.
David Linthicum, SVP of Cloud Technology Partners,
sat down with private cloud proponent John Engates,
and private cloud skeptic Bernard Golden to moderate a discussion around the future of private cloud
and its business value in it is dynamic landscape.
Meet our discussion contributors
John Engates, CTO Racksapce
John joined Rackspace in August 2000, managing
data center operations and customer-service teams.
Today, he is active in extending Rackspace’s fanatical
support to clouds like AWS and Microsoft Azure and
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supporting OpenStack private cloud for customers all
over the world. John is also an internationally recognized cloud computing expert and a sought-after
speaker at technology conferences, including CA
World, the Goldman Sachs Techtonics Conference
and Cloud Expo. He speaks on the future of cloud
computing, enterprise cloud adoption, data center
efficiency, green data center best practices and more.
Bernard Golden, CEO, Navica
Named by Wired.com as one of the 10 most influential
people in cloud computing, Bernard has extensive
experience working with organizations to help them
adopt and integrate cloud computing effectively. Bernard serves as VP of strategy for ActiveState Software and as CEO and founder of Navica. He is the
author of four books on virtualization, cloud computing and AWS topics and a regular contributor to CIO
magazine. His work has also been published by the
Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.
David Linthicum: What is the business case for private cloud and where is it best applied?
Bernard Golden: The business case for private cloud
is typically centered around an IT organization that
has constraints on a particular set of solutions that
preclude the use of a public cloud environment. It
may be that they have compliance requirements, or
they’re located in a geography that insists data not be