Building and Managing a Cloud Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud

To put it simply, the private (or internal) cloud concept implies running a service hosted in an in-house data center that emulates some of the behavioral characteristics of the IaaS and PaaS services (referred to here as “public cloud” to denote a publicly shared infrastructure), such as self-service, on-demand provisioning, resource consumption tracking, and chargeback. In other words, enterprises want to transform their existing IT infrastructure to provide these capabilities so that they can satisfy user demands without compromising security or compliance and without giving up control. This idea is gaining increasing acceptance among large enterprises. According to a 2010 Forrester Research, Inc. survey, more ...