Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure with OpenStack

This IDC Perspective explores the use of OpenStack as dedicated cloud infrastructure for organizations looking to implement a private cloud. It describes the capabilities required for a private cloud and illustrates how OpenStack aligns with those capabilities. The pros and cons of deploying and managing a free, open source cloud are explained to help decision-makers."As organizations venture into the world of dedicated cloud infrastructure, it's important that they have both commercial and open source choices when making business critical decisions like implementing a private cloud," explains Rob Tiffany, research director, Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure at IDC.