Private Cloud Capacity Management Resources
Videos
In his presentation at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara, VKernel's CMO Bryan Semple walks through the pitfalls and benefits of charging back and the accompanyingpricing strategies for private clouds. This presentation is based on his recent white paper: Setting Prices for Private Clouds - Chargeback and Show Back for Private Clouds.
White Papers
Five Capacity Management Challenges for Private Clouds
Organizations that are seeking to deploy “cloud” based business models for their infrastructure face unique capacity management challenges. This white paper will review these challenges to enable cloud providers, either public or private, to avoid the pitfalls of improper capacity management.
Setting Prices for Private Clouds
As more and more private clouds are deployed, organizations will face the requirement to implement chargeback or at least show back. Key to implementing chargeback is setting the chargeback rate. Much as pricing significantly impacts a public cloud provider, for the private cloud provider, the chargeback rate has significant implications. This white paper examines three strategies for setting prices for private cloud operators.
Private Cloud Capacity Management Free Tool
vOPS™ Server Explorer
vOPS Server Explorer is a suite of free private cloud capacity management utilities for VM administrators. vOPS Server Explorer provides a "Google-like" VM search and environment-wide visualization of performance, capacity and efficiency health.
VKernel Blogs
Cloud Connect - Pricing Strategies for Private Clouds *NEW*
In this blog, VKernel's CMO, Bryan Semple, comments on his presentation at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara where he walks through the pitfalls and benefits of charging back and the accompanying pricing strategies for private clouds.
Capacity Management Challenges for Private Clouds
In this blog, VKernel's CMO, Bryan Semple, highlights capacity management challenges private cloud operators face that are presented in the VKernel's "Five Capacity Management Challenges for Private Clouds" free white paper.
Will Private Clouds Drive Chargeback Adoption?
In this blog, VKernel's CMO, Bryan Semple, provides his point of view of the questions, "is chargeback for private clouds going to be anymore successful than chargeback for IT as a whole?" or "will private clouds cause chargeback implementation?"
