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Private cloud will be on top of the priority for CIOs in 2014

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Sharath Kumar
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BANGALORE, INDIA: Year 2014 seems to be an exciting year ahead for cloud service providers. As more companies join the cloud bandwagon, the cloud service providers are bringing in new innovations to automate processes, thus helping data centers in achieving greater efficiency.

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In an interaction with CIOL, Srinivas Rao, director (Pre-sales) Hitachi Data Systems, India throws light on new trends for 2014:

CIOL: How do you see the adoption of private cloud in 2014?

Srinivas Rao: More organizations will adopt private cloud for provisioning and self-service in a secure cloud environment along with greater business agility and business control. Cloud is becoming a more accepted service model. In a recent survey of large accounts, nearly 10 percent of workloads are now being run in the cloud. Software as a Service (SaaS) seems to be the more popular use of public cloud for back office applications like, email, HR, CRM, and archive or backup.

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Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in the public cloud is often used for elasticity to offload temporary demands like test and development or seasonal peak workloads. However, the use of public cloud for primary business applications is still regarded as high risk due to security, privacy, quality of service, outages, and high cost concerns when processing applications and accessing data across the pipes connected to the pubic cloud.

Concerns about security and privacy in the public cloud, coupled with worries about the viability of public cloud vendors, have combined to create greater interest in private clouds to address these issues. With private cloud, organizations virtualize their compute, network, and storage resources; unify the management and consumption of infrastructure; and automate the entire stack to reduce the overhead associated with managing disparate platforms.

HDS success and rich experience in deploying these private clouds will further help customers to adopt this private cloud much faster than before.

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CIOL: What are the automation processes that are driving the private cloud adoption?

SR: Private cloud gives stakeholders access and provisions resources on demand and it also monitors the usage for internal chargeback. It is important to manage your data centres more efficiently, freeing up resources for other strategic purposes to create a stronger link between IT resource usage and business activities to maximize the ROI of your IT. All these factors are driving the private cloud adoption and HDS predicts that private cloud will be on top of the priority for CIOs in 2014.

CIOL: How does the Managed Service Solution enable Private Cloud as a Service?

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SR: Here, HDS delivers an infrastructure-as-a- service offering where HDS owns and manages the private cloud that resides within your data centre. There is no initial cape cost. Its pay-per-use pricing, a pure opex model, includes all hardware, software, transformation, managed service and support for the consumption of storage and converged infrastructure, based on service level agreements. As such, you realize cost benefits of the new private cloud model from day one of the contract.

HDS owns the assets and you can flex up or down each month based on the HDS leverages best practices ITIL service management and our service operations Centres around the world ensure 24/7 management. Three of our private cloud storage service offerings include:

- File Tiering

- Primary File Serving

- Microsoft SharePoint archiving.

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