The decision has been made to implement and deploy a private cloud. Now the debate begins: implement a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) private cloud, or purchase a Commercial, Off The Shelf (COTS) private cloud?
The DIY vs. COTS debate has been part of IT design and planning discussions for decades. Cloud or no cloud, there’s always someone pitching the DIY option as a cost-saving measure, and the arguments both for and against are usually quite predictable. For organizations having the debate as part of a move from traditional IT infrastructure toward private cloud, however, things are different.
Clouds are transformative in a way that, for example, a storage refresh isn’t. While there are certainly a number of storage vendors that would decry this as heresy, replacing a Fibre Channel SAN with a scale-out storage solution probably isn’t going to radically change how an organization does business. But private clouds can and do have significant impacts across entire organizations. This makes the DIY vs. COTS debate rather more important.
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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/
