Private clouds gain traction with early adopters - Early adopters are embracing cloud computing -- on their home turf
Private clouds -- where companies use their own infrastructure and provision virtualized services to end users via automated tools -- are gaining ground among IT leaders who want to deliver advanced services at lower costs.
However, as with any new approach to computing, private clouds today fall short on manageability, and some users worry about the risk of vendor lock-in, particularly with virtualization and other tools that make cloud computing possible. Further, the fuzzy nature of just what private cloud computing means could slow the adoption of internal cloud setups.
