Consumerization of IT Driving Virtualization to the Private Cloud

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Thanks to improved efficiencies and greater business agility, the number of companies looking to deploy private cloud service infrastructures has increased dramatically in 2012. CIOs across industries can no longer ignore the compelling business case for cloud computing. In his February 2012 report, “Top Five Trends for Private Cloud Computing,” Gartner analyst Tom Bittman forecasts: “the number of [private cloud service providers] deployments throughout 2012 will be at least 10 times higher [than 2011].”

Many companies view private clouds providers as the next phase in their virtualization efforts with the goal of enabling the “consumerization of IT.” Compared to virtualization, private clouds service providers are an even larger paradigm shift that requires significant changes in the way many companies deliver IT services. Unless IT teams thoughtfully plan how they are going to address the organizational and cultural challenges, they will likely derail their initial cloud deployments or deliver a solution that cannot be scaled to other groups or businesses within the enterprise.

 

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