Kavit Majithia examines the phenomenon of the private mobile cloud, and considers how service providers are increasingly moving away from the public cloud to better serve their specific business needs.
The cloud model at its most basic is a simple mechanism for the delivery of IT services. But in the face of strident demands for better integration of cloud-based services within the carrier ecosystem, the model is rapidly evolving well beyond the scope of this simple definition, towards the formation of separate private cloud solutions.
So what constitutes a private mobile cloud, and how accessible can ‘private’ be before it becomes ‘public’ again? On one level it is all relatively simple – public cloud is a virtual storage facility that service providers, enterprise companies and end users access for data storage, security, hosting and all things over the top. But its evolution is firmly in motion – vendor Cisco’s Cloud Watch report shows over 47% of all vertical and IT institutions surveyed believe private cloud will be the dominant cloud model over the next five years. Several drivers are behind...
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