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JUST OVER
THE HORIZON,
PRIVATE CLOUDS
The adoption of private cloud computing is so young that it’s
hard to talk about—it’s something that doesn’t yet exist fully,
but is found only in skeletal, experimental form. Many CEOs,
CFOs, and COOs are rightly skeptical about how much of
their company’s most important possession—its data—should
take up residence alongside other firms’ operations on a shared
server. In the multitenant cloud, who knows? Your fiercest
competitor might be occupying the same server as you and be
grateful for any slop-over of your data.
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at why some corporate en-
terprise data centers, both large and small, will move toward
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