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Cloud Building – Requirements For Private Clouds

Instrumentation and the Private Cloud

Large numbers of organizations are undertaking private cloud initiatives, but this shouldn’t be surprising – the cloud is a small step in a continued pursuit of better data center IT. Typified by Amazon, the company who orchestrated basic computer services into easily deployable, fly-by-wire, pay-per-moment IT, we think the idea of cloud is well underway to reaching a definitional stage where it will be considered a “type of technology”. But even the lack of clarity in what cloud is, hasn’t restricted companies from broadly moving toward what they see as cloud infrastructures – typically in the form of private clouds. Why is this?

In reality every incarnation of cloud – public, private, object, hosted, multi-tenant, etc. – is less a new invention than an advancement of IT management born on the back of maturing capabilities that have given the practitioner a bevy of new tools with which to do IT better. The private cloud represents efforts to build highly automated and orchestrated infrastructures that will yield higher levels of utilization, data center efficiency, service level reliability, and responsiveness. Today’s energy around “cloud” is a realization of the very things IT has pursued for years now; simplified, and finally made possible with less than a Federal government scale organization.

In this series of overview pieces on Private Cloud Requirements, Taneja Group is providing a technology by technology, vendor neutral assessment of the mandatory building blocks for private cloud infrastructures, and an identification of key capabilities within these technology domains that we see as critical in enabling private cloud compute. First up, instrumentation – often referred to as monitoring or visibility. But in the private cloud, instrumentation must reach far further than what has traditionally been expected of a conglomeration of single dimension visibility and monitoring tool sets.

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Taneja Group Market Profile – An Overview of the Cloud Market Vendor Landscape (Executive Summary)

Choosing a cloud vendor in today's market can be a challenge. This market profile from Taneja Group provides an objective review of current cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and management, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), end user computing (EUC), and public cloud IaaS offerings from eleven leading vendors and includes key takeaways for IT leaders to consider when selecting a vendor.

Attached is the executive summary only.  To get access to the FULL Taneja Group Landscape Report, you can download it from VMware directly.