The resurgence of modern private clouds as a strategic solution is the subject of a new ebook “Unlocking the Evolving Value of Private Clouds for Enterprises” by David Linthicum, principal analyst at Linthicum Research. In this ebook, Linthicum explores how modern private clouds enable an advanced operating model offering automation, scalability, and agility previously associated solely with public clouds—but with better cost predictability, control, and security.
Linthicum highlights the challenges of public cloud adoption, citing unpredictable costs, compliance risks, data sovereignty issues, and the diminishing value over time. He then details the dynamics that have shifted the momentum back towards private clouds, including the following points:
Private Cloud Resurgence
Driven by the need for predictable costs, data sovereignty, operational efficiency, and agility, organizations are seeking these outcomes without the drawbacks of public clouds. The fact that Modern private clouds are workload-agnostic and can extend across on-premises, edge, CSP and hyperscale infrastructure make these infrastructure decisions much more powerful.
Business Case for Modern Private Clouds
Emphasizes cost predictability, operational efficiency through automation, enhanced security, and better compliance. Private clouds deliver superior cost management through reduction in operational and infrastructure costs, offering better security, compliance and governance, with the scalability and agility typically associated with public clouds.
Attributes of a Modern Private Cloud
Linthicum provides the essential design elements of a modern private cloud, delivering software-defined infrastructure, self-service/automation, multi-tenancy with seamless policy enforcement, with security, governance and compliance by design.
Organizational Mindset Shift
Making the decision to deploy modern private cloud takes much more than just technology, it requires a re-evaluation of business strategies and organizational structure. Enterprises need to move from static infrastructure to a flexible, consistent, and location-independent operating model, leveraging platform teams and developer empowerment. This mindset shift must have executive buy-in in order to beimplemented across the organization for success.
Private Cloud Use Cases
In addition to traditional workloads, Modern private clouds are suitable for AI and Gen AI applications, container environments using Kubernetes orchestration, disaster recovery, ransomware protection, IaaS, edge expansion, hybrid cloud, compliance automation, and DevOps.
Key Organizational Changes
Private Cloud transformation is much more than just infrastructure and technology, it requires implementing organizational changes to ensure that the organization becomes a functional service oriented organization with strong governance, empowerment and open communication. This transformation many times requires reassigning and retraining IT personnel, building an innovation culture that is always looking for continuous refinement.
Take the Next Steps
The future of enterprise IT lies in a hybrid evolution where public, private, and edge clouds coexist, with private clouds acting as a strategic enabler for ROI, innovation, and control. This requires integrating private clouds as a critical component of their cloud strategy, but success also requires investing in team upskilling, deploying a cloud operating model, utilizing automation at scale and adopting a platform mindset.
As we head into VMware Explore, the key points within this ebook will serve as a foundation for the strategies that will be rolled out in Las Vegas August 25 – 28. David Linthicum will join Jon Rosenson, President and COO of Expedient, Pete Flecha, and me in session CLOP1206LV: “Back to the Future the Rise of Private Cloud Repatriation.”
Read this ebook to learn more about private cloud’s strategic advantage and how VMware Cloud Foundation offers a modern private cloud platform to achieve business advantages.
