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What is the Private Cloud?
By Erin Glass
Senior Manager, DevEd
The term “private cloud” refers to cloud services that are owned and managed by the organization that uses them and available only to the organization’s employees and customers. Private clouds allow organizations to exert greater control over their computing environment and their stored data, which can be necessary for organizations in highly-regulated industries.
Private clouds are sometimes seen as more secure than public clouds as they are accessed through private networks and enable the organization to directly oversee their cloud security.
Public cloud providers sometimes provide their services as applications that can be installed on private clouds, allowing organizations to keep their infrastructure and data on premise while taking advantage of the public cloud’s latest innovations.
For more educational resources related to the private cloud, please visit:
- A General Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Introduction to the Cloud Curriculum
- An Introduction to Cloud Hosting
A complete list of our educational resources on cloud computing can be found on our Cloud Computing page.
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