Table of contents for true Private Cloud
#1 What is a true Private Cloud solution?
#2 True Private cloud vs Public cloud: What’s the difference?
#3 What are the many benefits of a true private cloud?
#4 Who can benefit from using a true private cloud?
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Imagine this scenario:
There’s a guy named Peter. He owns a pharmaceutical business. This business has a website. To host this website he had purchased a powerful VPS that can accommodate the growing traffic the website keeps getting. After a while Peter finds an investor who is willing to invest in upgrading the scale of his pharmaceutical company.
This investment enables him to open up two more branches in different locations and switch to a more organized supply chain process. He also has to start storing complicated customer data as well as detailed databases of the medicine that he sells and stores. Inevitably, with the large changes that came with the investment, Peter also considers hiring new staff to work in the new branches. And in order to reach a better ROI for his investors and better profits for himself, he’s also planning to launch a professional marketing campaign to gain new customers.
With all this sensitive and complicated information being stored and managed, he now requires more computing power to host databases for stores and items, run marketing and growth analytics, handle HR for new staff, store and manage data of suppliers and logistics etc. He also understands that all this sensitive new data should be kept secure from loss, breach and theft, under a strong data safety and recovery system. What kind of solution could help Peter and his business in a situation like this?
A true Private Cloud solution is the answer.
#1 What is a true Private Cloud solution?
A Private Cloud solution is a Cloud Computing solution which provides dedicated resources, data storage, backup, DRaaS, security and support, which can only be used and accessed by the individual business and not be shared with other users in any way.
A true Private Cloud solution is offered by a provider who integrates all these services and offers a seamless, comprehensive solution so that the client can conveniently access all features at one stop.
#2 True Private cloud vs Public cloud: What’s the difference?
Think of this as apartments vs a house. A Public cloud is similar in nature to a single apartment that you have been granted within a bigger apartment complex. You have limited space for yourself, limited access to resources, limited security and limited freedom to live as you please or redesign your apartment. So an apartment is better suited for one or two people living quietly.
But as your family grows, you may consider moving in to a house where you have freedom to design it as you want, unlimited space for all your family members, much better security and privacy and the opportunity to use your resources all you want.
The difference between true Private cloud and Public cloud isn’t all that different.
The key difference between a Private cloud and a Public cloud is that, a Public cloud is owned by a vendor. This vendor, or the service provider, provides you access to a server that resides within their cloud system. You’re granted limited storage within this cloud, limited backups and limited flexibility to configure your server in the best way that fits your organization.
In a Private cloud, however, you are given ownership of an entire cloud system with resources dedicated to you and you only. This way, the storage you have is much greater in capacity and you have complete freedom to configure resources, create servers and utilize the infrastructure as fitting for your organization.
And in most cases, upgrading to Private cloud is way more cost effective than purchasing more Public clouds to accommodate your growing business.
#3 What are the many benefits of a true private cloud?
1. Dedicated Resource Availability
When using a true private cloud, the entire infrastructure belongs to you. The storage, processing capacity and power, bandwidth, memory and backups are all yours to assign to different servers that you may use for different purposes. So one big true private cloud solution can host not just your website but your business databases, testing servers, software and applications you may be using, important files and documents, backups, security measures and much more!
You would no longer have to keep purchasing more and more resources from a provider to be able to host them all. Unlimited resources will be available just for you so that you can not only save costs but save time and streamline your operations by boosting efficiency.
2. Easily Configurable Security
Just as a house is more secure and private than an apartment, a true private cloud solution is easier to secure and you have much more privacy. When you own a true private cloud, you’re in full control of who has access to it and how strict the security parameters should be. There are also no restrictions on what security measure you can take to further the safety of your cloud.
The fact that your data is hosted on an isolated environment that is dedicated entirely to you plays a considerable role in its inaccessibility to malicious parties.
3. Better Efficiency
When you have full control of the infrastructure that your business runs on, you get to configure its elements in the best way possible to streamline the entire business process at once. You no longer have to request certain permissions from vendors, delay your workflows due to communication mishaps etc. When everything you need is available at one place it’s easier to connect every aspect of your infrastructure and improve their coordination.
Of course, a true private cloud also offers larger storage, better DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service), and better performance power. With boosted resources such as these, the speed of your workflows and the quality of your delivery is enhanced. You will no longer run out of resources too soon. And this can also prevent unplanned errors.
4. Dedicated Support
With CloudCone’s true Private Cloud solution you receive free Business Cloud Support with a dedicated support team member that is fully aware of your solution to assist you. The right combination of our products and services, intuitive tools and access to technical expertise, helps achieve the outcomes you need to guarantee a higher success rate for the business.
We go beyond the general break-fixes and issue resolutions by providing you the Business Cloud Support plan which proactively optimizes overall performance, lower costs & innovates cloud workload for the future.
#4 Who can benefit from using a true private cloud?
Ideally, a true Private Cloud solution may be helpful for organizations that require large processing power, storage and to those that give high priority to security. The structure and facilities offered by a private cloud are designed to cater the necessary performance, power, storage and DRaaS required by a single organization. So if your business is in a stage where its expanding from a basic startup to a more stable brand you might need to consider adapting to a true Private Cloud solution.
We’ll bring you more detailed use cases for true Private Clouds in our next blog post about our true Private Cloud solution. Our developers and cloud engineers have designed it with detailed analysis into your requirements and how the solution’s functionalities could match up with them. If your startup or business wants to thrive in the years to come you would have to adopt to technologies that are suited for the future of business and information technology. Cloud computing is the future of business. Choose wisely, choose cloud.
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