Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Private cloud investment by Enterprise & Public Sector accelerating - will lead investment in Cloud over next 18 months

Not to restate the obvious but most enterprises and government entities are doing little or nothing with public cloud and heavily investing in private cloud initiatives. Two big reasons for this are that 1) IT organizations are able to more effectively articulate a quantifiable business case for deploying a private cloud based on a) increased agility, and b) increases in operational efficiency and staff productivity and 2) security concerns are still a major factor in curbing adoption of public cloud services and implementing hybrid cloud solutions that blend private and public cloud solutions.

A good article by Dave Gaeda provides more detail.