Main trends of the world market of private clouds

The world market of private clouds (private cloud) grows, but is still far from a maturity status. Researches Forrester The Forrester Wave^[1]which are carried out to the period from 2010 to 2013 recorded growth of interest of the enterprises in similar solutions. For example, for the beginning of 2014 of 55% of the specialists responsible for IT infrastructure in the European and North American companies, called creation of a private cloud the priority, and 33% - already used private cloud.

Private clouds are used locally

The term "private cloud" is rather wide and covers a number of techniques and approaches to creation of IT infrastructure that often leads to confusion, especially regarding the product description and their marketing promotion. Expression of the idea of a private cloud as note in Forrester, is the most widespread acquisition of commercial software (30% of cases) or some components of a private cloud (16%) which then integrate with the help of IaaS of software and the equipment together with certain means / management systems.

What of the provided statements as much as possible correspond to the strategy of your company in plot area of a private cloud?

Forrester Research, 2013

For professionals in the field of the IT working at the enterprises, creation of a private cloud in many cases becomes the next logical step after virtualization implementing solutions leading to the greatest automation of business and achievement of the concept of IT as a service: "IT as service for business". For the organizations private clouds are first of all logical continuation of those opportunities which users in public clouds (public cloud), but in more "intimate" type have.

Besides, for business often the choice for benefit of private clouds is caused by that increase in productivity which are promised by cloud-infrastructure. The "ideal" private cloud provides services of IT self-service for employees and full automation of activity, it is controlled and controlled IT specialists, but is not limited in development.

Vendors are focused on IaaS +

In 2013 the tone in the market of private clouds was set by developments in the field of PaaS for creation of different applications. Using such tools the specialists managing the cloud systems had an opportunity to work with prekonfiguration of software products and also to implement virtualization of resources in its net type. Forrester calls such approach of IaaS+ because it falls short of PaaS in his classical understanding, but, nevertheless, is very useful and demanded. The subject IaaS + will warm up shift of attention from the hardware of cloud infrastructure for benefit of program and also need of developers to have continuous access to templates of applications.

Compromise of developers and administrators: In large projects of a private cloud until recently often there was a conflict of interest between the developers and IT specialists who are engaged in administration of cloud infrastructure. Both parties tried to achieve two at first sight opposite goals: work speeds against stability/error-free running time that quite often led to failures and inefficient resource allocation. Solution providers for private clouds offered tools for the solution of this problem, but still could not please both parties so work on cures of the matter will be continued.

Expansion of functionality

The enterprises gradually begin to understand that the concept of a private cloud is much wider, than just use of virtual computing resources. Following demand, solution providers and providers also begin to offer more wide functionality of solutions for creation of private clouds, including tools for full-fledged control of virtual machines and basic scenarios.

Solution providers for private clouds constantly expand a range of the tools offered in a complex within cloud "packets". Most often they turn on in such packets of means of ITSM. However, as specify in Forrester, this offer is attractive only to those organizations which have no own practices as regards ITSM, for others purchase of such tools in a packet conceals in itself excess expenses.

Hybrid clouds

The hybrid cloud is the combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud infrastructure creating an environment which provides access to a cloud and can dynamically be increased for management of an uneven load. Such field on a joint of external cloud servers to which so far not really trust also private clouds which already become current. Participants and analysts of the cloud market agree in opinion that at the moment hybrid clouds are one of optimal variants for corporate users, giving ample opportunities for creation of individual configurations.

Most often hybrid clouds are used as a reliable possibility of an exit out of limits of cloud capacities of the company in case of peak loads. It is possible to leave crucial applications in a private cloud, and to bring the others to servers of Microsoft or Amazon. Or to use external clouds as a polygon, a temporary working space.

Thus, the cloud turns from the environment based on SaaS into XaaS. In such system where business applications are reduced to the basic functions and work as components. From here the component is a ready, independent part of business process. Approach "a component as service" (XaaS) familiar on banal Web services became the basic concept of calculations on the basis of a hybrid cloud.

Independence of customers

Analysts recognize that customers become more and more independent in mastering of private clouds and lose dependence on tretyestoronny providers. So, according to Technology Business ^[2], published in December, 2014, in the first half of 2014 of 65% of private clouds 35% - internal suppliers of IT services were delivered by third-party providers, and. And in 2013 this ratio made 70% to 30%. According to forecasts of researchers, penetration of private clouds in general will reach the high level by 2018: it will equal 85%.

See Also

• Cloud computing (Cloud computing)
• Public clouds vs Private clouds
• Creation of private clouds (market of Russia)
• The main trends of the market of private clouds in Russia
• Private clouds: typical customers
• Cloud services (market of Russia)
• Market of IT services of Russia
• Private clouds in a public sector
• Private clouds in the banking sector
• Cloud solutions for SMB
• How to select IT service provider?
• Service companies: western vs domestic
• Economy of cloud services
• Data security in a cloud
• World market of cloud services

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