• SMEs making leap to private Cloud

  By Stephanie McDonald | 04 April, 2012 08:30

  Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are jumping on board private Cloud, according to Pieter DeGunst, director of ICT consultancy Tecala.

• Terremark launches private cloud edition

  By Brandon Butler | 04 April, 2012 02:43

  Some enterprise customers just aren't comfortable throwing their data into a public cloud environment, says Ellen Rubin, vice president of cloud products for Terremark, which is owned by Verizon.

• Need for more Australian specialist Cloud providers: CIO study

  By Hamish Barwick | 02 April, 2012 15:55

  With Australian CIOs looking overseas for Cloud services, the need for more Australian specialist infrastructure and platform-as-a-service providers presents opportunities for the local Cloud service market, according to a new study from analyst firm, Telsyte.

• Q&A: ING Direct Australia CIO, Andrew Henderson

  By Hamish Barwick | 02 April, 2012 12:28

  ING Direct Australia chief information officer, Andrew Henderson, has been with the online bank since 2003, during which time he has worked in both the Ukraine and Australia as a CIO.

• Latisys: Customers want off-premises private clouds

  By Brandon Butler | 27 March, 2012 06:32

  The public cloud doesn't work for everyone, says Pete Stevenson, CEO of Latisys, a cloud, managed hosting and colocation service provider that announced an expansion of its offerings and facilities today.

• Is there a 'best' way to set up your private Cloud storage?

  By Jon Gold | 28 March, 2012 06:24

  Given that Cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea - different types of private Cloud almost always require different approaches.

• Why private cloud will make IT think like Wal-Mart

  By Bernard Golden | 21 August, 2009 03:27

  Public. Private. Hybrid. Cloudburst. Much of the discussion about cloud computing focuses on deployment options and choices, with a surprisingly large number of enterprises inclining toward internal private clouds-that is, a cloud-capable infrastructure residing within a company's own data center.

• Ausenco virtualises to 95 percent, upgrades DR capability

  By Tim Lohman | 07 August, 2009 10:58

  Australian engineering, project management and operations company Ausenco has undertaken a major virtualisation and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade as a foundation to developing a private cloud for its core enterprise applications.

• Blog: Forrester bucks wisdom on cloud computing

  By Bernard Golden | 30 June, 2009 01:54

  A couple of weeks ago Forrester released a report on cloud computing, based upon a survey of small and large enterprises located in North America and Europe. I was particularly interested in its findings as it addressed the question of private (internal) cloud computing.

• Defining Private Clouds, Part One

  By Bernard Golden | 22 May, 2009 09:58

  The topic of private clouds is heating up. A private cloud is, essentially, a cloud computing capability dedicated to one organization. The term "internal cloud" is often used for this kind of functionality, but as many people point out, the term "internal cloud" conflates functionality with location. T

Whitepapers about private cloud

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  In recent years mobile technology has proliferated throughout the enterprise. Today, virtually no one in the workforce is bound to a desk to work, check e-mail or communicate with co-workers and customers. At the same time, we’re seeing the rise of cloud technologies, loosely defined as online resources, often provided as a service, that manage the data and software that used to run solely on PCs. This merger of mobile and cloud technologies is on its way to becoming one of most significant enablers of business productivity and innovation seen in the past decade. Read more.

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