A private cloud solution can significantly enhance your ability to respond to the rapidly changing needs of key business stakeholders by allowing for dramatically faster, more efficient, standardized, simplified, and lower cost provisioning and reallocation of IT infrastructure. It also allows you to more rapidly respond to increased capacity requirements and to automatically reallocate unused computing and storage capacity where it’s needed. The private cloud can provide both a hard return-on-investment (ROI) by significantly reducing IT costs and a soft ROI by enabling the business to respond to opportunities never before possible with traditional IT approaches. In addition, with proper planning and strategy, your private cloud implementation will allow you to more seamlessly leverage public cloud resources if and when those resources meet your needs. By adopting cloud technologies, you can manage the allocation of resources over time between private and public cloud resources without retooling your organization. Cloud Approach private cloud experts, in conjunction with our SONIC consulting services and toolset framework, help you develop a strategy, gain buy-in, and implement a successful private cloud solution for your business.

In traditional computing environments, IT infrastructure requests can involve complex project management, provisioning, and purchase order processes and the very inefficient pre-allocation of dedicated resources that stand idle until they are used. Furthermore, these same dedicated resources are often underutilized and go dormant quickly after the request without visibility by IT management. This can result in tremendous added cost as under-utilized or unutilized infrastructure is maintained by the IT organization without the hope for reallocation to meet changing business needs. Data center racks fill, power requirements grow, hardware and support licenses must be maintained, and more—all of this to maintain infrastructure that provides no value to the business.

In a private cloud environment, business stakeholders can request virtualized resources in an automated self-service fashion. For example, if a particular test and development request requires four standardized LAMP servers (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP), the requestor can use an automated system to acquire these servers and be cross-billed for them. In a virtualized infrastructure, resource allocations for these systems can be thin-provisioned and allowed to expand to meet requirements or minimally preallocated based on simple requirements specified at the time of the self-service request. Other private cloud scenarios include shared subscription availability of scale-out storage, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for organizations doing development in certain predefined environments, hybrid clouds, and more. Cloud Approach private cloud services include strategy, security, and implementation. Our industry experts coupled with the SONIC services framework allow you to harness the tremendous power and benefits of private cloud computing for your business.