If an enterprise really looks at [migrating] to
the cloud, it’s almost 100% going to end up
with some sort of hybrid.
JOE COYLE, CTO, CAPGEMINI IN NORTH AMERICA
“But if you’re at a larger enterprise
with a large N-plus data center and
you’re guaranteeing five-nines
availability to mission-critical or core
applications, then you’d dismiss the
public cloud for your most important stuff because it can’t beat what
you’ve already got,” he adds.
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A Virtual Rock Star
The virtual private cloud model
turned out to be the right answer
for United Capital Financial Partners, a fast-growing national partnership of private wealth counselors. Although it started down
a private cloud path, the more the
company investigated the idea, the
less feasible it became, said Brandon Gage, senior vice president
of technology at the 250-person
Newport Beach, Calif., company.
“The level of expertise we would
have needed in-house to make
this happen didn’t make sense for
a company of our size, and it didn’t
make sense for our road map for the
next three to five years. What we
really needed was a partner that
had already done the heavy lift-
ing, had a SAS-70 data center audit,
[had] reference customers and
could deliver the experience our
users deserved,” Gage says.
Keeping Secure in Private
An organization that’s taking a
different tack is the Houston-based
University of Texas MD Anderson
