So I’ve heard reference to the private cloud but hadn’t thought too much about it until recently. Of course, you only get jogged when you see an example of you are a true visionary. I’m more along the lines of the former. So I saw a case study of First Citizens Banks using IBM’s WebSphere Private cloud to really enhance his deployment time, scalability and uptime. If you can deploy mutiple JVM’s / applications on a cloud then WebSphere Portal scales easily and as long as the cloud itself supports HA, you are pretty far along with your support. I can’t say I know enough about this but I’ve been really impressed with the lowering costs in getting fairly complex technology up quickly and up in such a way that they will stay up. I don’t know what other companies are offering private cloud services but it’s probably worth looking into for your underlying architecture.
