Private cloud is safer claims Digital Realty Trust
Another vote comes in for private clouds as the Digital Realty Trust claims they're safer for enterprises than public cloud computing.
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The future of cloud computing is private clouds, according to an executive from the Digital Realty Trust.
In an interview with IT PRO Jim Smith, chief technology officer at the company which builds and leases data centres, seemed unconcerned for his business despite the growth of cloud.
"Before cloud was popular it was virtualisation everyone was talking about. Let's not leave virtualisation behind," he said.
"When VMware came out it was telling the world that the data centre was going to be obsolete. We [then] saw a spike in requests for virtualised [data centres] and the market increased."
So is the cloud a threat to his business? Smith didn't seem too concerned.
"Our prediction is cloud for enterprises will be private [as] there are lots of implications about sharing data in that space," he said.
"When the government comes to take servers and I am sharing the cloud with someone doing something illegal, they aren't going to think twice about ripping all of them out and taking them away."
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He accepted the cost may be an issue, but concluded: "You may save a little less [with a private cloud] but you will be able to sleep at night."
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