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SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close August 25, 2008 Bring Cloud Computing Inside Internal Clouds Give You Efficiency and Experience While Avoiding the Stormier Problems Bill Coleman, CEO, Cassatt Corp. Cloud computing is gaining attention among technologists and the wider public, yet its definition remains a bit, well, cloudy. If you wouldnt mind one more cloud computing definition, I rather like mine. In cloud computing, you care deeply about access to computing, storage, and network resources. You could not care less about where the servers carrying out these processes are located (as long as you keep in mind a few compliance requirements), nor how they are implemented. With cloud computing, what you dont see is what you get, and as long as you get that resource availability for an affordable price, there really is not much need to ask what is going on behind the scenes. This traditional concept of cloud computing has some big stumbling blocks at the moment. My belief, however, is that many of these issues can be addressed by doing something intriguing with the cloud computing idea: bringing it inside your own datacenter. How Do You Avoid the Current Limitations of Traditional Cloud Computing? The benefits of a “traditional” cloud computing environment tend to center around cost, as well they should. Infrastructure implementers such as Amazon can provide a cloud service with extremely low operating costs, massive economies of scale, and minimal complexity. Yes, its computing to the extreme and, one way or another, well all be better off because of it. End-users benefit from the service providers economies of scale, immediate availability of computing resources and the resulting low costs. Even better, customers are billed for usage; in other words, you only pay for what you use -- and nothing else. This concept is a key to managing datacenter resources efficiently and is not only friendly to IT budgets, but also to the environment, as fewer servers