Exploring Cloud Ecosystems in Relation with Private Clouds
With cloud computing, enterprises are provided the chance to create and customize their own cloud ecosystems. However, this process isn’t always a cakewalk. To identify how cloud ecosystems work and how private clouds fit in there, let us take a step back. Let us see what constitutes a cloud ecosystem.
What Makes Up a Cloud Ecosystem?
A cloud ecosystem is made up primarily of several entities taking on different roles such as delivery, supply, storage of cloud services. These entities, in combination with their interactions with each other and their contributions to the overall architecture, form a cloud ecosystem.
Even though the ecosystems are diverse in nature, there is one thing in common — they bring great value to enterprises and their businesses. This value can take the form of multiple things such as simplifying data analysis collected from different applications or even reducing vendor lock-in risks by making multiple provider options available.
How Do Private Clouds Fit In?
Most organizations begin their cloud adoption with public clouds. But, these ecosystems can ideally be branched out to private-only or hybrid models and platforms as well. Providers, applications, and services can make up the required structure of the network and transform a private cloud into an independent cloud ecosystem.
Enterprises manage private clouds in one of two ways — keep it in-house or letting an experienced provider take care of their cloud ecosystem. The provider works in tandem with the enterprises and gives the companies access to any additional offerings they have. With providers offering open source private clouds such as the ones with OpenStack, there is also no risk of vendor lock-in.
In conclusion, a cloud ecosystem consists of services and resources that are provided to an enterprise by suppliers, consultants, or in some cases, even consumers. Private clouds can fit in such cloud eco-systems, either independently or in tandem with public clouds to form hybrid environments. For enterprises, the crucial factor is to ensure that the selected cloud provider can accommodate all your needs in building an effective cloud ecosystem.
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