Cloud Computing: Keeping it private

Every organisation will have to weigh up the pros and cons of the public versus private cloud debate.

A public cloud price war between Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure has made it tantalisingly cheap to run servers and storage from a multi-tenant platform, but Ireland's infrastructure providers still find a demand for their private cloud services.

Sandra Dunne, general manager of Appliance Technology, would go as far as to say that global brands have made little difference to business because its storage and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings target customers that wouldn't ...