Today's organizations need the ability to quickly scale and deliver continuous services to multiple business units. Private clouds allow organizations to use on-site resources to deliver scalability, elasticity and more while maintaining control over their information and processes. This document lays out 4 steps to private cloud: 1) virtualize your IT infrastructure 2) Establish systems management/software framework to bridge IT and business requirements 3) Implement business logic and policy-based automation 4) Make use of the Hybrid cloud model.

Updated: 10-20-2014