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Migrating media applications to the private cloud: best practices for businesses This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

Summary:

If your company has a cloud application with a predictable audience size or one that is costing you more than $25,000 a month to host, you may want to consider maintaining a private cloud. This paper provides an overview of the factors that decision makers who are developing a public-to-private cloud-migration strategy should consider, recognizing that public versus private cloud strategy is not an all-or-nothing proposition. It also details pitfalls that must be avoided along the way and provides a case study of Zynga, a company that has found a way to use both the private and public clouds to create a hybrid solution. Companies mentioned in this report include Akamai, Foursquare, Nimbula and ARM. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial.

  1. Table of contents
  2. Executive summary
  3. Introduction
    1. Audience
  4. Life after the public cloud
    1. Growing pains
    2. Using cloud metrics
  5. Understanding private cloud technologies
    1. Enabling technologies
    2. A new way of thinking about data center design
  6. Creating a migration strategy
    1. Finding the geographic location
    2. Performance considerations
    3. Other considerations
    4. Finding a data center
    5. Building or buying a dedicated space
    6. Leasing a dedicated space
    7. Using co-location
    8. Carrier-specific and carrier-neutral providers
    9. Using a hosting service
    10. Creating a bid
  7. Making hardware decisions
  8. The importance of energy consumption
    1. Planning rack density
    2. Planning and flexibility
  9. Planning storage
  10. Evaluating your applications
  11. Implementing the software layers
    1. Virtualization software
    2. Management software
  12. IT personnel
  13. Zynga: a case study
    1. Zynga and AWS
    2. The Zynga private cloud
    3. What's next
    4. More information
  14. Perspectives on the future
  15. Key takeaways
  16. About Dave Ohara
  17. About GigaOM Pro
  18. Further reading