
Every decision of investment into building a private cloud — whether it’s a private cloud for in-house use or a full-fledged cloud service provider platform (CSP) offering public cloud services — follows, in principle, a simple equation.

Every decision of investment into building a private cloud — whether it’s a private cloud for in-house use or a full-fledged cloud service provider platform (CSP) offering public cloud services — follows, in principle, a simple equation.

Within my previous article in this blog about the term of cloud computing in general, I mentioned that cloud computing comes in different flavors depending on how you look at it, and what is in it for you. Ah – let’s stop here – so what really is in it for you? That’s a good question! Depending on whom you ask, you often would hear something like “you can turn your captial expenses into operational expenses (CAPEX to OPEX),” or “you can decrease your time to market by leveraging rapid deployment of needed infrastructure for your projects,” or “you can optimize your server utilization,” or, or…

Today, the underlying technologies (virtualization, automation, self-service) are becoming more mature; for the sake of better understanding – can’t we come up with a different name for what we call today cloud computing? Would a name changer also be a game changer?