MQIT on Building the Private Cloud: A Chat with David Linthicum

Chat with David Linthicum of Blue Mountain Labs about Building the Private Cloud (unedited).

==============
David S. Linthicum: Dave Linthicum here.
David S. Linthicum: Any questions around “Building the Private Cloud?”
Geoffrey Collins: Dave, might have missed this point in your talk – but are there any noteable success stories out there yet (in the private cloud space)?
David S. Linthicum: Yes. I have a few clients.
David S. Linthicum: The biggest one is the DOD with thier “Network Centric” program.
Byron Pojol: hi dave, here’s what i categorized clouds. internal (enterprise) and external (aws). private (ning or small bank using cloud) and public (linkedin and adp)
Byron Pojol: dave, what do you think?
David S. Linthicum: Sure, that works. However, the thinking here is still evolving.
David S. Linthicum: Some don’t like the term “private cloud” at all.
David S. Linthicum: Some just consider it another word for “SOA.”
David S. Linthicum: Private clouds are a bit different in that they are shareable.
David S. Linthicum: In essense, having a small AWS, that you control, inside of your enterprise.
David S. Linthicum: Typically they leverage virtualization, but sometimes not.
Geoffrey Collins: Thanks Dave. And if the DoD has a “crisis of software economics”, then most other larger IT shops can’t be too far behind…
David S. Linthicum: You are correct.
David S. Linthicum: The spending and complexity has gotton out of control.
Byron Pojol: dave, yes i have worked on projects using shared services resources (architect, engineer, admin, server, network securty, etc.) with multiple Business Units.
Byron Pojol: BU has apps similar or need to use same server.
David S. Linthicum: It’s more difficult to manage, but less $.
David S. Linthicum: Okay, I’m about done here. Any other questions?
Byron Pojol: The paradigm before is to isolate as possible esp if app is critical. but nowadays virtualization and service manangement has caught up with our instinct. that we are possitive of outcome for sharing apps and servers for diff BU and customers.
Byron Pojol: thanks.
David S. Linthicum: Good point Byron.
Geoffrey Collins: Good info Byron!
David S. Linthicum: I can be reached at:david@bluemountainlabs.com, if you have additional questions or comments.
Geoffrey Collins: Great (LZA) minds…;-)
David S. Linthicum: Thanks all!
==============

These are the points I made with clearer samples.

Cloud Categories:
– Internal Cloud (enterprise shared services)
– External Cloud (amazon web services ec2)

External Cloud Sub-Categories:
– Private Cloud (ning private network or small bank using external cloud banking software services)
– Public Cloud (linkedin public network or adp for employers)