Private clouds have become widely used by organizations, whether deployed onsite or offsite, and are a major factor in business growth. As organizations realize the future of cloud computing lies in hybrid models, private clouds are seen as an integral part in combining private and public clouds. Deploying private clouds can provide significant benefits like 50% lower data storage costs, 25% annual storage growth without increased budgets, and faster provisioning times.

1. Why deploy private cloud
in the hybrid cloud era?
Whether deployed onsite or offsite, individually or as
part of a hybrid, hosted or managed by a third party,
private clouds have become a major catalyst for
business growth and differentiation while managing
highly sensitive information. Today they are dominating
the cloud conversation, and the focus is on deployment.
The road to hybrid computing
Faced with diverse workload requirements, organizations are coming to realize that the
future of cloud computing lies in the hybrid space, and private clouds are an integral part.
Public
Deploy quickly. Manage easily. Innovate extensively.
Private cloud
automation
Public
Extend automation with platform
as a service (PaaS) private clouds
50% lower cost
per byte of data stored
25% storage growth accommodated
annually without increasing the budget
27%
Today
In 5 years
Hybrid use1
76%
Public
IBM has migrated several of our own critical IT workloads
to private cloud. Our results illustrate the potential
opportunity across the enterprise.4
Faster provisioning
from 5 days to as little as 1 hour
Shorter time to market
Estimated value of for new applications
business intelligence for the
top 20 projects alone
$300M
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1,2 North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research, “The Future of Cloud Computing: 3rd Annual Survey 2013,” October 2013.
3 IDC, “Enterprise cloud public and private end-user adoption signals continued shifts in IT spending,” IDC #237171, Volume: 1, October 2012.
4 IBM, “Success in the cloud: Why workload matters,” July 2013.
© 2013 IBM Corporation
of business users, IT leaders and
cloud vendors expect hybrid clouds
to be the core of their cloud strategy,
overtaking public and private clouds in
the next five years.2
Analytics cloud
Development and test cloud
Storage cloud
43% Private
Public
Hybrid
Private
Private Private
Business
value!
Agility!
Self-service support
User self-provisioning and
problem-solving frees IT for
more strategic work
Deployment in weeks
or less
Average implementation timeframe
reduced dramatically
Reduced staff
#1 reason IT and business
leaders cite for deploying
private cloud3
Improved performance
and availability
Better intelligence with
increased use of analytics
Simplified management
Labor-intensive tools and
associated costs avoided
Faster provisioning
Middleware provisioning with
the same speed and ease
as infrastructure provisioning
Faster innovation
and development
Best practices are codifed into
“patterns” which provide developers
with a rich, downloadable toolset
for application development
Optimized workload and
capacity management
Pattern-directed allocation of
infrastructure and platform
resources enables optimal
performance
Major cost and operational efficiencies
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