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Managed Private Clouds—Use Cases

The "Why & When" of Managed Private Clouds. We can talk about all types of use cases when it comes to Managed Private Clouds. By no means an exhaustive list, these are some of the more common scenarios:

Isolating different clients if you're a hosting reseller or SaaS provider
Consolidating applications with different traffic patterns or system requirements
Increasing overall system availability
Test and Dev environments to minimize infrastructure costs and easily migrate to a production environment when ready
Adding resources quickly during peak seasons, holidays and promotions

Global Retailers & E-commerce Sites

The Challenges:	The Private Cloud Solutions:
1. Scaling up for peak retail seasons and then scaling back down	Deploy VMs faster than physical servers Create and deploy VM templates instead of installing apps on each physical server Optimize compute resources and reduce infrastructure complexity and costs
2. Allocating resources is difficult due to fluctuating traffic	Turn VMs on and off based on demand
3. Compliance standards require higher security	A broad portfolio of managed security devices and services available

SaaS Providers

The Challenges:	The Private Cloud Solutions:
1. Growing customer facing, mission critical apps is expensive and slow	Deploying VM clones lets you grow faster Scale for less money by adding VMs only when needed VMotion increases stability
2. Security and compliance for apps is needed	A broad portfolio of managed security devices and services available
3. Ability to customize config with .NET apps	Support custom apps with full root administration access
4. Want to run databases and other elements of your app outside of the cloud	Integration of your Private Cloud with the other components of your managed hosting environment

Internal IT Services

The Challenges:	The Private Cloud Solutions:
1. Deploying discrete systems for each department is costly	VMs address departments' needs for isolation without overspending on hardware
2. Assessing resource needs for each system is challenging	Easily change system resources or spin up and down VMs to meet performance needs
3. Unrealistic turnaround times for projects	Provision new VMs quickly and store templates for each department's apps for on-demand

Building Confidence in the Enterprise Cloud

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"High Availability in the Cloud: Using a private cloud to add HA without complexity"

Rackspace Solutions Engineer John Marler sheds light on how businesses can use a private cloud to add automatic high availability (HA) functionality in the event of server hardware failure.
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Dipping Your Toe in the Cloud

Leveraging the Resource Optimization & Scaling Benefits of Cloud Computing.
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Private Cloud: More than Virtualization

Rackspace Solutions Engineer Jon Marler outlines the key components for a reliable Private Cloud solution.
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Managed Private Cloud Webinar

Learn how enterprises are using Private Cloud Computing to meet their unique business & technology needs.
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