{"id":1522,"date":"2011-04-16T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/hfs-private-cloud-challenge_041611\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T15:50:00","slug":"hfs-private-cloud-challenge_041611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hfs-private-cloud-challenge_041611\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for… The HfS Private Cloud Challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloud Cloud Cloud. Whenever you talk to a provider, or IT analyst, consultant or investor these days, the C word inexorably oozes out during whatever dialogue or monologue is taking place. And what we love most about the Cloud, is when we ask that person to define it, there is this inevitable pause before he or she stumbles through various unstructured sentences, before asking us how we<\/em> define it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Are you really ready for the "HfS Private Cloud Challenge"?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Never before have we come across such a vague, poorly-defined piece of\u00a0terminology so many people utter so freely without really understanding it, but feel an irrepressible urge to vocalize it at every given opportunity. \u00a0At HfS, we’ve become so depressed by the repeated fuzziness of the Cloud, and the startling inability of anyone to put forward a convincing, proven case for the Private Cloud, that our hot-blooded analyst, Esteban Herrera<\/a>, has deemed it high-time to lay down the gauntlet to you all, so over to you Esteban to explain our new challenge…<\/em><\/p>\n

It has suddenly become almost as popular to bash the Cloud, as it has to hype it. Personally, I have been a skeptic all along, and don\u2019t even get Phil started on Cloud BPO<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Public Cloud mostly makes sense, but all of the technologies required have existed in some form for quite some time\u2014they are available and people use them today, so I am not sure what is so \u201cnew\u201d about it. At least the economics make sense: lots of companies invest in a single infrastructure with overcapacity, but because of the consolidation and standardization of the offerings, it costs them a whole lot less than developing their own infrastructure, and gives them the ability to scale. Given its limitations, the Public Cloud has been mostly popular with small and medium size.<\/p>\n

But the Private Cloud makes my blood boil. Private Clouds are a cynical oxymoron. The whole point of a Cloud is that you share resources and don\u2019t have to own the capacity you need, because its available on demand, so you can pay by the drink. Well, if you own the resources and the capacity, it is inherently limited to what you own, and you\u2019ve already paid for everyone\u2019s drinks at the bar whether they consume them or not!<\/p>\n

Check out Wikipedia\u2019s definition:<\/p>\n

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Private Clouds have attracted criticism because users “still have to buy, build, and manage them” and thus do not benefit from lower up-front capital costs and less hands-on management,[52] essentially “[lacking] the economic model that makes Cloud computing such an intriguing concept”.[54] [55] Enterprise IT organizations use their own private Cloud(s) for mission critical and other operational systems to <\/em>protect critical infrastructures<\/em><\/a>. [56] Therefore, for all intents and purposes, “Private Clouds” are not an implementation of Cloud computing at all, but are in fact an implementation of a technology subset: the basic concept of <\/em>virtualized computing<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But HfS is about dialog, and believe it or not we don\u2019t mind being proven wrong, so we are launching the HfS Research Private Cloud Challenge\u2014a fun contest for true innovators in the Private Cloud. Here are the rules:<\/p>\n

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  1. Entries must describe a Private Cloud solution that has been implemented. Not a server virtualization initiative, not the purchase of Software as a Service, but a true, full-on Cloud model where the technical infrastructure, software, and services<\/strong> are Cloud-based, available on demand, and can scale up or down painlessly.<\/li>\n
  2. Each entry must be accompanied by a business case. That\u2019s right, real numbers on spreadsheets, folks!\u00a0 Entries must show in real money the benefits of the Private Cloud implementation. You may also share other benefits that are hard to measure in dollars, but assume we are taking a CFO perspective here.<\/li>\n
  3. Your story must be verifiable. We are happy to protect the innocent and will not disclose any name you don\u2019t want us to, but we want to talk to real people who are close enough to the solution and to the numbers to be able to tell us its real.<\/li>\n
  4. Do not send us more than 10 pages plus a spreadsheet with the REALIZED business case (not the expected business case). The legions of HfS minions who will have to sort through your thousands of entries are quite busy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What do you get if you \u201cwin\u201d? If you are the first person or organization to convince us that there is business value in a Private Cloud, you will get unparalleled fame in the form of:<\/p>\n

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    1. Your story will be published on this very blog, where 50,000+ loyal and adoring readers will understand the benefits of private Cloud. You will be tweeted and re-tweeted the world over and every major social media outlet will know you have won the challenge.<\/li>\n
    2. You will earn the satisfaction of having crushed my gargantuan ego by proving me wrong, and demonstrating conclusively that I am an ornery, luddite fool.<\/li>\n
    3. I will publicly eat my fedora in front of all said subscribers, and have to admit that the Private Cloud is indeed not an oxymoron, but a valuable new way for enterprises to do business.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Email your entries to me at esteban.herrera@hfsresearch.com<\/a>. I\u2019m fully prepared for a flooded inbox.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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