When discussing private cloud, questions often come up about how the big boys are doing it; Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. The thinking is that the large scale data centers they are running can teach us lessons about smaller scale infrastructure for private clouds, which, on the surface, seems to make sense. Take the lessons learned in big data centers about scale, efficiency and reliability and apply them to smaller scale private cloud deployments. This method is not however without problems. Very little of what the large public cloud providers do is actually applicable to a private cloud. The reason for this is twofold: scale and application. Read the full post on Network Computing: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/232602398
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