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02 October 2009
Analyst Gartner says IT departments will invest more in private cloud-based applications and services than in external cloud providers over the next three years.
Private cloud computing sees scalable IT-enabled services delivered on-demand to internal customers using internet technologies.
The analyst said firms would largely concentrate on supporting internal cloud services using their own IT departments up to 2012. Eventually though, said the analyst, firms would start to usurp their own IT departments when it came to providing cloud services.
Gartner analyst Phil Dawson said, “Larger organisations will continue to have an IT organisation that manages and deploys IT resources internally. Some of these will be ‘private clouds’, but not all.”
Dawson said, “IT departments will also take on IT service sourcing responsibility – determining when to leverage external providers, when to deploy internally, and when to leverage both for specific services.”
Gartner predicts that private cloud services will be a stepping-stone to future public cloud services. For many large organisations, private cloud services will continue to be required for many years, as public cloud offerings mature.
Although some IT services are destined for cloud computing delivery, others are expected to be more tightly integrated with the business, said Gartner.
"These services are business differentiators and tightly integrated with the business. They change often and are integrated and customised. They may incorporate a range of standardised cloud services - for example payment processing - but the resulting aggregate service will be enterprise unique and will not be typical to cloud services," said the analyst.
Last Updated (02 October 2009)
