Enterprises Support Private Clouds
Citing security issues and cloud management as key factors in avoiding public
clouds, most organizations say they are not yet ready for hybrid solutions that
tap into public clouds. According to IT World, security issues do come into play
in private cloud environments, but not to the same extent as moving data outside
an enterprise firewall.
Enterprises are not ready to tap in to public clouds, but many are experimenting with private cloud computing.
"While enterprises are experimenting with private cloud computing, the majority are not yet ready for hybrid solutions that tap into public clouds. According to the survey, 82 per cent of organizations do not foresee any cloud-bursting initiatives in the next year.
"'A large segment of the market are looking at private first,' said Nick Werstiuk, strategic planning director at Toronto-based Platform Computing. Werstiuk defines a private cloud as one kept within an organizations firewall, and cloud-bursting as reaching out for a temporal period to an external provider for extra capacity."
