Planning Guide | Private Cloud Infrastructure as a Service | July 20143
Today the cloud is a proven delivery model, with a growing
number of enterprises realizing impressive agility and
eciency benets. As the technology matures, the trend is
for organizations to extend cloud deployments to even more
exible private, hybrid, and public cloud models. The new
models promise exciting new ways to expand the scope of
value-added business services, address top priorities like
big data and Bring Your Own Device and mobility initiatives,
and deliver enterprise applications as services.
Many organizations no longer question the value proposition
associated with cloud computing. But the conversation has
changed—from “Should we do it?” to “How should we do it to
get the most value?” Intel wants to help you simplify delivery
of your cloud services so that your business can realize the full
benets now, while laying the groundwork to move to a more
elastic hybrid model.
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The purpose of this guide is to help you
take the rst step—building a private self-service cloud on
a highly virtualized foundation.
Why Private Cloud?
Many companies are already virtualizing their IT environment and
have been doing so for years. Initially, virtualization was deployed
for compute resources, primarily as a cost-saving technology.
Organizations soon recognized that virtualization provided
eciency benets as well as enhanced agility and security.
Most clouds are built on virtualized infrastructure technology.
Cloud computing originated as a new way to deliver IT services
by providing a customer interface to automated, self-service
catalogs of standard services, and by using autoscaling to
respond to increasing or decreasing user demand. From an
IT perspective, a private self-service cloud oers the key
advantages of speed, agility, and eciency while maintaining
control of sensitive intellectual property (IP) and data.
Private clouds also enable IT to be more responsive to the
business and to work more eectively with its constituencies—
business users, suppliers, partners, employees, and others.
Without private clouds, line-of-business (LOB) requests
to IT for provisioning server or storage capacity for key
business initiatives can take weeks—or even longer. With
a private, self-provisioning cloud, users can be up and running
in hours or even minutes, with no or minimal interaction with
IT. Projects don’t languish, and users can gain access to the
capacity they need on demand. IT can provide better service,
monitor demand, and maintain control of sensitive workloads
and resources. Users benet with increased speed to market
and the ability to go after short-term opportunities.
The Path to Simplied Delivery
of Cloud Services
Best Practices and Insights
from Intel IT
Intel IT solves some of today’s most demanding
and complex technology challenges—right here
at home. Our computing environment supports
95,200 employees globally and includes 68 data
centers and 147,000 devices. To create as much
business value for Intel as possible, we proactively
invest in and implement innovative IT strategies
and capabilities, including cloud computing,
consumerization of IT, and big data analytics.
Intel has realized signicant benets from
deploying its own private cloud, from increased
agility—server provisioning dropped from 90
days to 45 minutes—and reduced operational
costs—$21 million in savings since 2009.
Throughout this planning guide, we’ll share
best practices from Intel’s cloud journey to
reinforce our recommendations, help you reduce
organizational risk, and simplify your path to
the cloud.
Find additional insights and best practices from
Intel IT leaders about strategic planning, creating
business value, improving productivity, managing
growth, and more at Intel IT.
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