Evidence is accumulating that as public clouds gain strength, enterprises are increasingly interested in building their own clouds in the data center.
The evidence is still anecdotal, but many companies appear to be building out private clouds as much as test-driving public ones. Or perhaps they've concluded what works in the public cloud will work just fine in the private enterprise data center as well.
In a recent interview with Bryson Koehler, for example, senior VP for InterContinental Hotels Group, said his firm is using Salesforce CRM for customer relationship management. It develops software in Amazon Web Services' EC2 infrastructure; and it is making use of both Savvis and Verizon Business cloud centers to host customer information on the Web.
But the thing that kept him talking about cloud computing was InterContinental's intent to build out of its own private cloud. Koehler hopes one day his private cloud will run the mainframe room reservation system, loyalty club updates, and customer analytics, with which he hopes to deliver a more distinct style of customer service. So one of the early goals of InterContinental's private cloud is to serve as a training ground for the IT staff to understand cloud architecture and how to manage it, whether on premises or off.
"Right now, one-third of our staff is up to speed and understands the details of cloud computing. One-third is dedicated to legacy apps that won't make the migration into the cloud. And one-third needs to go through this learning curve in the first half of 2011," he said.
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Source: Informationweek
By: Charles Babcock
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