Private Cloud: What to Consider Before You Build
A private cloud gives your team cloud-style self-service on infrastructure you control. The decision is rarely "which brand" - it is first self-built vs hosted, then hyper-converged vs three-tier, and finally how disaster recovery between Shenzhen and Hong Kong will work.
Key Capabilities
- Self-built vs hosted - where the hardware lives and who runs the daily operations.
- Hyper-converged (HCI) - compute, storage and network in standard nodes; simplest to scale.
- Traditional three-tier - separate servers, SAN storage and fabric; fits large, predictable workloads.
- Licensing - virtualization and management software cost models compared over 5 years.
- DR design - replication between Shenzhen and Hong Kong sites with defined RPO/RTO.
Typical Use
We guide customers through a workload inventory first: which systems belong on the private cloud, which stay physical, and which should move to public cloud. The selected architecture follows from the workload profile - not the other way round.