Private Clouds: Critical Considerations for Building Internal Clouds

Keywords: Private cloud, Virtualization, Internal cloud
Authors: Dave Malcolm, Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Surgient.
Dave is responsible for product management, software development, and datacenter operations for Surgient's products and hosted solutions. Prior to Surgient, Dave was the Vice President of Product Group at Motive where he built the software development organization from its early beginnings and was responsible for product marketing and development of the entire Motive product line that grew from $2 million to over $65 million in annual revenue during his tenure. Prior to Motive, Dave was the Vice President and General Manager of the Internet Business Unit at Tivoli Systems. While at Tivoli, Dave founded Tivoli's internet management business and launched its first generation of products. Dave held a number of management positions in the product group at Tivoli during his seven-year tenure in which Tivoli had a successful initial public offering, was acquired by IBM and grew from under $1 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue. Prior to Tivoli, Dave held management and software development positions at Locus Computing Corporation and Texas Instruments. Dave graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in computer science.
Abstract:
Clearly, the current darling of the IT infrastructure technology world is the “cloud.” Industry analysts are predicting wide adoption of cloud computing, and in particular private clouds. However, with a wide spectrum of definitions and best practices emerging, a clearer understanding of how the cloud can specifically benefit your organization is critical.

In this session, Surgient CTO Dave Malcolm will explore the key considerations that must be made before a company plans to implement a private cloud. Attendees to this session will learn:

• Five pillars that define cloud computing
• Specific use cases for the private cloud in your organization
• Critical elements and considerations of the private cloud
• Best practices for implementing a private cloud