Private
Cloud Platform Selection has more than one reasons to take the latest
packages under the magnifying glass and analyze to build private cloud
for own. The names of Private Cloud Platform arise in this topic are
OpenStack, VMWare, Microsoft, Eucalyptus, Cloud Stack, Red Hat Cloud,
Cloud Foundry etc. We only can point you towards the positive and
negative points of each Private Cloud Platform, but it is you who have
to select the Private Cloud Platform yourself, simply as we can not
promote any particular Private Cloud Platform.
Private Cloud Platform Selection Inside Out
Previously
we discussed about Private Cloud through various articles. Private
cloud environment is characterized by the concept that own data center
or dedicated server can be connected with third party’s Private Cloud
Platform. Companies can use Private Cloud Platform for their employees,
departments and projects for scalable resources in the form of virtual
machines as well as development platforms on demand. In addition to
infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions , there is also approaches
through Private Cloud Platform to deliver platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Selection of Private Cloud Platform
Private Cloud Platform
Eucalyptus
: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To
Useful Systems. Eucalyptus is a software platform for the implementation
of private cloud computing, its user-facing interface is compatible
with the Amazon EC2 and S3 services. The eucalyptus core area consists
of five components : cloud controller for managing the whole system,
cluster controller for management of the virtual network, Node
Controller to control the hypervisor and the operating system of nodes,
Walrus is access management tool for the Storage Service and the storage
controllers for storage service within Eucalyptus System. The name and
fame of Eucalyptus Private Cloud Platform is quite well established. In
June 2012, Eucalyptus Systems officially announced that their open
source edition is now hosted on Github. Their Private Cloud Platform
customers includes NASA, US FDA. National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) in April 2012, openly stated, ”There are many cloud
products in the market place, but NIST has determined Eucalyptus
Enterprise Edition is the only IaaS cloud management software currently
on the market that is built open source and supports private and public
cloud infrastructure.”
Open Stack / Rackspace Private Cloud
Platform : We wrote about Open Stack before. The Open Stack source code
is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. This gives the
opportunity to develop own cloud solutions and improvements to be
channeled back into the project. Rackspace as a company has one of the
best customer support, be it Private Cloud Platform or Public Cloud.
Customers includes DreamHost (oh yeah), Sony and more as Private Cloud
Platform.
VMWare Private Cloud Platform : VMware offers Private
Cloud Platform in addition to some public cloud solutions. This is not
surprising, by the manufacturer of the pioneers in the field of
virtualization softwares, a technology that is the key element of cloud
computing. Southwest Airlines, Revlon are their proud Private Cloud
Platform customers.
Microsoft Private Cloud Platform : Microsoft
System Center is the direct interface to the user. As the control center
responsible for the System Center Configuration; provisioning,
monitoring and operation of the cloud infrastructure, it is easier to
handle Private Cloud Platform. Microsoft provides free trials, link to
download Microsoft Private Cloud Evaluation Software etc. for evaluation
of their Private Cloud Platform. As usually, all softwares for Private
Cloud Platform of Microsoft is proprietary.
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