On Monday I blogged about the potential values of Cloud Computing. Today I want to jump straight into the same topic and enlarge the introduced model by analyzing the value of Cloud Computing from a public and a private perspective.

Public means, that the cloud offerings are owned and managed by a third party. From these remote installations others can rent capacities. The private perspective puts the focus on infrastructure that you install and own, but that implements many of the technology platform features found in large “scale-out” server farms run by public cloud providers.

Thicker lines around the value element mean, that more emphasis is placed on that element. Fainter lines mark the less important or missing value elements.

As the diagram says, strategic and economic values seem to be more important in public cloud offerings. Architectural values can be found as well, even if people do not always keep this value category in mind. In contrast, private cloud offerings are limited only to the architectural values.

From this point of view, public and private cloud offerings seem to be the complete opposite of each other. That does not mean, one is better than the other. It’s just necessary to understand the differences and benefit from that knowledge.

How can public and private cloud offerings be combined to receive the maximum value? Are there other points to be considered in the value model? What are your thoughts about cloud values? Let me know what you think!

Found at: mwdadvisors.com