Go Cloud Hosting; Public vs private cloud comparison from a customer point of view. Many customers may want to go along with a hybrid methodology - a blend of public and private clouds. Given below are the points to consider before coming to a decision in this regard. Kind of business - If you're a web-based company, then public cloud really is a no brainer. Regulated industries like, for instance, insurance and financial services will have a harder time to go only with public clouds. So, you may begin making use of a VMware-based private cloud services and then, when you make a decision to make use of or present Services/APIs to customers/associates or your compute cycles for a point project are exponentially higher, you may look for adding the public cloud as part of your strategy. Cloud provider type - self services such as Google or high touch (Rackspace, Sunguard, and so on...). This aspect is mostly about how you would like to access the services. High touch has got its advantages, but it's also pricey. Over an extended time period the traces would blur, but for the next 10 years or so, at least, the difference in the approach is going to be stark. Use circumstances - what you are doing will define the way you carry it out. If the information is very vulnerable and cannot leave the system firewall, then you may possibly take a decision to start up with the private cloud. Protection of the data will be a really significant criterion in deciding whether you want to use the public or the private cloud. Control - this extends back to the above discussed point. Businesses will want visibility and control. Granular control on things like authentication, permission, information masking, etc... Similar to much of the web/cloud solution, it has to be simple, easy and has got to scale. Regardless of whether it is a public or a private cloud, what are some of the key aspects that users really understand with respect to cloud computing? The answer really … [Continue reading...]