{"id":5287,"date":"2015-03-20T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:32:41","slug":"cloud-computing-why-private-clouds-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-why-private-clouds-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Why Private Clouds Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many businesses are pursuing the benefits of cloud technology while maintaining a handle on security by building private clouds, increasingly the opinion is that most of these projects are doomed to fail. \u00a0Both Gartner and Forrester <\/a>have noted that the private cloud project failure rate is high.<\/p>\n

Tom Bittman<\/a>, Gartner analyst, reports that 95 percent of attempts by businesses to build private clouds run into serious problems.<\/p>\n

Matt Assay<\/a>, for example explained the problem, saying that <\/a>“if the whole purpose of cloud computing is to enable elasticity of resources to drive business flexibility, setting up an internal cloud (as opposed to provisioning data center resources) simply won’t get an enterprise far. Companies often dress up virtualization as cloud and predictably fail to get promised cloud benefits.”<\/p>\n

Assay quotes Andy Jassy<\/a>,\u00a0Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive, who said that<\/a> “companies usually are not able to provision accurately the amount of data center capacity that they require, and this problem recurs when they create their own internal cloud infrastructure.”<\/p>\n

As Gartner’s Bittman commented<\/a>: “jamming cloud into your existing process model and organization structure ain\u2019t gonna work.”<\/p>\n

Why do private clouds fail<\/a>? \u00a0The reasons <\/a>may be no different than why any kind of project can fail, for example<\/a>:<\/p>\n