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Is Managed Private Cloud The Right Choice For Your Business?

Before opting for a managed private cloud service, enterprises usually ask this question – how secure is the managed private cloud? To understand the same, let us begin with talking about the various nuances of private cloud computing.

An introduction to private cloud
Private cloud is typically a highly virtualized cloud data center located within a company’s firewall. Private cloud could also be a private space dedicated to an organization within a cloud vendor’s data center – also called Hosted Private Cloud.

How it helps?
Private cloud services enable organizations to provision virtual machines from a pool of resources based on their specific requirements. It provides a seamless technologically-enabled IT environment that optimizes the use of computing resources. It also offers the added benefit of conveniently scaling up or scaling down hardware and software resources based on dynamically changing business requirements. In essence, a private cloud is a Virtual Data Center (vDC) which can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

Benefits of Hosted Managed Private Cloud
-Service Provider manages an enterprises’ IT infrastructure on a hosted virtualized platform
-Hardware, software licenses, security, monitoring and management is provided on a pay-as-you-go basis
-A dedicated but virtualized hosting environment is provided
-Enhanced security and compliance
-Custom SLAs (Service Level Agreements)
-Scalability and flexibility
-24×7 support

Why choose managed private cloud?
So, the question here arises: Is managed private cloud the right solution for your organization? Setting up a comprehensive IT infrastructure requires various components such as servers, firewalls, routers, switches, backup, storage area networks, load balancers, intrusion prevention/detection equipment and IT staff to manage this infrastructure. For a company that does not have a big IT department, this could mean a considerably high investment of time and money. In such a scenario, it is a good business move to opt for a managed service provider to setup and manage a hosted private cloud environment for you.

Getting started
The right way to start would be to identify a cloud hosting provider that specializes in hosted managed private cloud. The organization can then outsource its cloud hosting requirements to such a provider, ensuring the private cloud setup remains isolated, firewalled and completely secured to fully support processing, storage, transfer and memory capacities. Choose customized services based on your requirements supported by service level agreements (SLAs).