A Survey of Private Cloud Platforms

Abstract: As enterprises and institutions grow and their dependence on information services become ever demanding and critical to their functioning. Many choose to port their services to the Cloud. Cloud is a network based service, which does not have a physical location of its hosting – much like real clouds; they are managed by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) who provide clients everything from software to infrastructure. These services are possible by high bandwidth data connectivity and virtualised hardware resources. Private Cloud is more or less the same, except it is managed in house by the institution and is much more secure than third party offering on public networks. In this paper we try to enumerate the need, the building process and available Private Cloud platforms to date.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Private Cloud, Platforms, Considerations, Eucalyptus, OpenStack