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*Must be an upgrade, not a downgrade for less expensive hardware. 30 days free offer applies only to servers and does not apply to networking equipment, security services, or storage upgrades. Offer expires July 1, 2010.
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Managed Private Clouds

What Exactly is a Private Cloud? A Private Cloud, sometimes called an Enterprise Cloud, is simply a dedicated hardware environment (pooled resources) with a virtualization layer running on top, allowing you to create and manage multiple virtual servers within a set of physical servers. Since it's a dedicated environment, you—and only you—are living on it.

Managed Private Cloud Basics

Rackspace Product Manager Rob Jackson goes through the basics of Managed Private Clouds in this short video.
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Receive 30 days free on a new Private Cloud purchase, or when you upgrade your existing Private Cloud infrastructure.

Your Mission Critical Applications are Ready to Run on a Private Cloud

Most clouds that people are familiar with are the public clouds, also known as shared clouds or private virtual servers. These clouds have hundreds or even thousands of businesses running in isolated containers within the same physical environment. And there are a lot of benefits to public clouds. But for some businesses, certain feature limitations and the implications on an application's architecture are definite drawbacks. They make it too difficult to transition from a dedicated environment to a public cloud.

Private Clouds, however, are an easy step into the realm of cloud computing. Each customer is physically separated on their own dedicated hardware. Not to forget that their support is also handled like a traditional managed hosting environment. So high levels of security, reliability, performance, customization and service are simply inherent to the solution. Yet you can still scale quickly, optimize your hardware resources and get utility billing for your VMs (Virtual Machines)—which are some of the benefits that make clouds so appealing in the first place. Think of it as getting the best of the cloud combined with the best of managed hosting—without the limitations of either.





All That Rackspace does for Your Private Cloud:

  • Full support of the operating system running on each of your VMs
  • Provision your new VMs
  • Manage and support the configuration, hypervisor layer and infrastructure 24x7x365
  • Assist in the design, configuration and deployment of your private cloud configuration
  • Purchase and renew all software licenses
  • Purchase all related hardware components
  • Manage the network and data center around the clock
  • Provide industry leading SLAs and guarantees that are clear and fair


Tips for Evaluating Private Clouds
1. How Secure is Secure?
First, define and identify what's mission-critical to you. If your data and apps have to be as secure as possible to meet compliance requirements or your own high standards, Private Clouds are ideal. The inherent security that comes with a dedicated, single-tenant environment is a pivotal reason to choose a private cloud. What's more, you can add additional security services like Intrusions Detection Systems and dedicated firewalls.

2. The Speed and Size to Scale
When it comes to on-demand and unlimited scaling, the Private Cloud has one limitation to consider. It's not major, but something you should look into. The number of VMs you can provision and deploy will be limited by the physical hardware running behind your Cloud. You can of course still add computing power by expanding your configuration. It just won't be as fast and seamless as a public cloud. So ask yourself how fast do you need to scale—instantly or fast?

3. What to Run and Not Run on our Managed Private Cloud
Basically, you can choose to run most anything you want on a Private Cloud. But you might not need or want to run everything, in all honesty. It might make more sense to run your databases on a traditional managed hosting configuration or use a CDN enabled cloud storage solution for your files or you can create a hybrid hosting solution that mixes and matches Private Cloud, public cloud and Managed Hosting to create a master solution that fits your requirements nicely. The point is you have options.

4. Expertise Not Needed
If you want to take advantage of the benefits of a Private Cloud, but don't have the skills, time or desire to mess with provisioning VMs or managing the hypervisor, outsourced Private Clouds are generally the way to go. Just make sure the provider you choose actually supports the virtualization layer for you as well as the operating systems that reside on each VM.

Building Confidence in the Enterprise Cloud

Learn about common concerns and key considerations when building an enterprise level cloud strategy.
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"High Availability in the Cloud: Using a private cloud to add HA without complexity"

Rackspace Solutions Engineer John Marler sheds light on how businesses can use a private cloud to add automatic high availability (HA) functionality in the event of server hardware failure.
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Dipping Your Toe in the Cloud

Leveraging the Resource Optimization & Scaling Benefits of Cloud Computing.
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Private Cloud: More than

Rackspace Solutions Engineer Jon Marler outlines the key components for a reliable Private Cloud solution.
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Managed Private Cloud Webinar

Learn how enterprises are using Private Cloud Computing to meet their unique business & technology needs.
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Managed Private Clouds Configuration Ideas

A few pre-configured ways to start your private cloud. Just determine how much computing power you'll need to start.
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Our Experts Supporting Yours

Whether it's troubleshooting, deploying a new server or just taking care of day-to-day maintenance, we are here for you 24x7x365.
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When and Why You Need a Private Cloud

Wondering if a private cloud makes sense for your business challenges? Take a look at these use case scenarios and find out.
Managed Private Cloud Use Cases


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Scalability is critical when you grow an application from zero to 35 million users in three weeks.
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Learn about common concerns and key considerations when building an enterprise level cloud strategy.
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