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Private Cloud will bring experience in leading organizations forward by thinking strategically about how to effectively leverage the hybrid cloud scenarios and how best to meet their needs in ways that have to look at using a mix of cloud and on-premises technologies to run their business.

The disaster recovery and business continuity planning that leverage the virtualization and cloud-based technology will vary for each organization. Unlikely that all applications are equally mission-critical and all systems are equally vital for organizations. So, the timeframe requirement for how long organization's sensitive data should take to recover from the time of declaring the disaster (not the time of the actual incident) to when the critical process or system is available to users (RTO) and the age of the data you want to restore in the event of a disaster (RPO) are essential metrics for organizations.

It's solid being seen the heavy resistance of organizations affected by regulating against the new technologies, while moving from one paradigm to the revolutionary new science will provide new methods and techniques for business model. So, this ultimate challenge leads to restriction of the organization's vision, and a precision of the security of confidential intellectual property match that can be achieved in no other way.

Ultimately, I agree with you entirely on that point, hereafter no need to delivery IT services on-premises respond to demands since the comprehension of business is shifting with a new paradigm comes with a more holistic and qualitative approach that is one way of looking at the business driven model says that computing services will be provided, on demand, how and when they are needed, quickly, efficiently, and very cost effective. Therefore, the business will drop to worry about IT capabilities and concentrate on their own requirements to make them more cost effective, but now in a scalable way using the Internet to access the services provided by cloud computing.

As you highlighted in your article, starting with a private cloud implementation to understand and experiment with the cloud delivery model can be reasonable, especially for government enterprises in respect to security concerns. But for most organizations, that's a big challenge in an individual's attempt to gain experience and understand the private cloud implementation in terms of the difficulty of establishing business continuity strategy and architecture.

Perhaps it would be right to look at two aspects; to serve as a physical and virtual machine existing hardwares in cloud environmets or on-premises.

Common causes of data loss from virtualized environments include file system corruption, deleted virtual machines, internal virtual disk corruption, RAID and other storage/server hardware failures.

Virtualization in the Cloud offers built-in mitigation for hardware failures, and also dramatically increases resistance to hardware failures, but the cloud does not offer better hardware, just a more resilient way to deal with failures.

The cloud computing is so green that U.S. companies could save 85.7 million metric tons of CO2 annually by moving to the cloud. This is equal to 200 million barrels of oil, the study says titled Cloud Computing.

It is not rare at all to find people who believe they are safe by hosting their data on-premise instead of cloud environment. As for me, they are like an ostrich with his head buried in the sand as everything is going well them by, feeling safe and secure falsely believing they know all they need to know.

I think, the security concerns around cloud computing are exaggerated. Moving data to an external storage does not inevitably pose new risks. Moreover storing information on the cloud can be even more secure and cost effective in case of professional support.

You need just to adjust public or private key based access and use excellent identity, access and information management tools providing by cloud vendor to protect your data.

Using cloud computing it is necessary to protect the data that is already stored on the cloud include information transmitted between the local server and the cloud, and usernames and passwords that are considered to be the most sensitive pieces of this kind of data. While in transition the data, encryption is the best way of this risk elimination.

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise , presumably, focuses on from a strategic perspective to business process redesign by drawing attention to the importance of the automated service activation quick provisioning and ITIL-compliant managed services and mission critical production workloads for Enterprises.

I think, it consists in exposing a smart vision over the future cloud computing approach by disposing of its current concerns that still can be identified as having weaknesses in one or more areas of this architecture are considered to be most at risk for security use regarding with Enterprise's demands.

In my opinion, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is also very promising in supporting wise approach, although so far it is used only in government enterprises.