At the moment, there seems to be a lot of interest in building private clouds behind firewalls in the name of security. While that approach no doubt saves money by increasing server utilization, it still puts the burden for building the IT infrastructure on the customer’s capital budget. Given the simple fact that most companies are looking for ways to treat IT expenditures as an operating expense that can be easily scaled up or down, Janel Ryan, senior product marketing manager for SunGard Availability Services, a provider of cloud computing services, argues private clouds deployed on premise don’t address one of the primary reasons that businesses became so interested in cloud computing.

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