In his recent piece in CIO (Private Clouds on Parade), Mike Altendorf wrote about the distinction between private and public cloud computing models. Both use the internet to deliver applications, but the former are delivered by IT departments for use by their own customers only, whereas public clouds are usually run by third-party providers for a range of customers.
In the private sector, part of the benefit of cloud computing is the ability to take advantage of multiple suppliers who provide utility applications that seamlessly scale, powered by virtualised datacentre resources delivered dynamically over the internet.
http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3211011/government-cloud-computing-must-have-a-proper-business-case/?intcmp=HPF3
Helping G-Cloud hit the spot
In his recent piece in CIO (Private Clouds on Parade), Mike Altendorf wrote about the distinction between private and public cloud computing models. Both use the internet to deliver applications, but the former are delivered by IT departments for use by their own customers only, whereas public clouds are usually run by third-party providers for a range of customers.
In the private sector, part of the benefit of cloud computing is the ability to take advantage of multiple suppliers who provide utility applications that seamlessly scale, powered by virtualised datacentre resources delivered dynamically over the internet.
Helping G-Cloud hit the spot