Public, Private, or Hybrid Cloud? How do you choose?

Which option should you choose? This article found on TechJournal South takes a look at three different deployment models and their benefits:

A Consonus customer, a large information services developer and provider, spent years considering various cloud computing models and their permutations. The customer first examined three of the four cloud computing deployment models — private, community, public, and hybrid — then evaluated four different management options: in-house, hosted, managed, and managed/hosted.

What cloud computing model and management option did they choose? Well, let’s first look at the benefits and challenges of the three cloud models they considered.

One Response to “Public, Private, or Hybrid Cloud? How do you choose?”

  1. Jake June 3, 2010 at 8:11 am #

    The hybrid model looks like the way it will evolve and the choice in this case was hybrid. Initially costs and the trust factor will be decisive.

    As cloud usage becomes common and improves, more critical apps will move as the cost benefits are good and barriers (security, reliability) will go down as technology, legal and other issues get resolved/standardized.

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