Forbes October 7, 2024
Written by Richard Monro, Technology Executive and Business Value Lead, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom
We are in the middle of a resurgence of interest in private cloud because the concept remains the best answer to solving today’s growing IT cost, complexity, and compliance challenges. This interest is driving current CIO spend and activity, with Forrester’s “Private Cloud Market Insights, 2023” reporting that 79% of surveyed cloud decision makers are implementing internal private clouds1.
There are a plethora of private cloud solutions on the market. Many are described by tech marketers using very similar terminology. Yet definitions of what “cloud” and “private” mean can vary enormously. The challenge lies not in any judgment of solutions being “good” or “bad,” “right”...