Businesses will begin investing in their own secure private
cloud networks over the next three to five years while they wait
for the public cloud to mature, predicts analyst group
Gartner.
Gartner analyst Tom Bittman said that private clouds would act
as a stepping stone for businesses that want the benefits of cloud
services but do not wish to wait for public cloud services to
become robust enough for business use.
Speaking in a video interview, he said that most cloud services
were simply not ready yet.
"They don't enable the service levels that are needed. They
don't have the security that is needed. They don't have the
compliance requirements. There is something lacking there," he
said.
But investing in private cloud services will give businesses a
head start.
"The majority of money spent by enterprises will be on private
cloud computing and not on public cloud," he said.
"We believe that private cloud is all about a rapid return on
investment. You build a business case. If it makes sense for me to
invest in it internally, let's do it, otherwise, I might just wait
for the cloud to mature," he said.
"Private cloud can be seen as a stepping stone. In other words,
it makes migration to a public cloud in the future easier," he
said.