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Chapter 2
Why Enterprise Cloud?
In This Chapter
▶ Understanding why the public cloud is the absolute right choice for
all your workloads
▶ Understanding why the private cloud is the absolute right choice for
all your workloads
▶ Recognizing why neither one of these is the right answer and why you
need an architecture based on characteristics rather than labels
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he public cloud r ules all!”
“You’ll move my apps out of my private cloud only after you
pry them out of my cold, dead hands!”
It seems that people have chosen sides in the public cloud‐
versus‐private cloud debate, and both sides have good
arguments.
Instead of looking at this is a public‐versus‐private debate, it’s
useful to consider the individual outcomes that each side is
trying to achieve and then architect around those.
Frictionless IT: Why Public
Cloud
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges facing IT departments
is friction. As Chapter 1 shows, today’s IT departments face
competing needs. IT must support legacy applications that
require constant uptime and low risk. At the same time,
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