If for some reason, i.e., information security and privacy, you can’t run the law firm practice or financial management system on a public cloud to benefit from fast feature deployments and reduced infrastructure costs (e.g., the economies of scale from running thousands of servers), then you may be considering a private cloud. But note that private clouds are not just collections of virtual machines.
Private clouds are comprised of processors, memory, storage, network resources, and a business application that coalesce into a platform, or business partition, to run a critical program in the law firm or other setting. Obviously, virtualization plays a key role in bringing the computing resources together to bear the weight of a business application. But remember the whole point is the business application and not the virtualized infrastructure. Toward that end, Microsoft’s Hyper-V has some cool tools that can make your private cloud look like a picnic.
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