Since the early days of cloud, IT has struggled with the limits of even the best public cloud. The model that offered agility, just-in-time provisioning, and minimal CapEx, came with downsides like multi-tenancy, limited resilience, and loss of control.
Some organizations circled the wagons around another model; private cloud. Private cloud offered the potential of public cloud-like services with the ability to fully control underlying hardware, cloud software, performance, and resilience. This legacy private cloud had the promise of letting them create a cloud without rearchitecting security requirements. It let them leverage existing hardware. It offered a fairly straightforward transition from virtualization.
But there were downsides.
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David Marshall is the founder of VMblog.com, one of the industry's longest-running independent publications covering modern data center technologies. What began as a focus on virtualization and cloud computing has expanded to cover the full spectrum of enterprise IT, including AI, security, and DevOps, making VMblog a trusted destination for vendor news, technology analysis, and industry commentary.Beyond publishing, David has spent his career at the intersection of technology and business, inventing, marketing, and launching a number of successful software companies and products, and building a reputation as a skilled marketing executive in the enterprise IT space.David is also a published author, having written two well-regarded books on virtualization and served as technical editor for two "For Dummies" titles covering virtualization and cloud computing. He co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication focused on cloud computing, and has been named a VMware vExpert every year since 2009, one of the longest continuous honoree streaks in the program's history.Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/
