As the great public versus private cloud debate ensues, development cloud company Electric Cloud (News - Alert) presented a webinar last Tuesday, August 16, titled “Private Clouds for Development: Exposing and Solving the Self Service Gap,” which examined the unique needs as well as security concerns of the enterprise and the advantages of turning to building a private cloud – run by IT, used by development – within the company’s own firewall.

According to speaker Dax Farhang, director of product management for Electric Cloud,” Private clouds are where the sweet spot is or where the opportunities exist for today.”

While public clouds offer a great deal of potential – such as access anywhere, unlimited scale and pay per use – there are a multitude of concerns that exist with public clouds including whether public clouds can properly protect IP. Having IP out on a public cloud can be a “liability” for businesses, explained Farhang.

Conversely, private clouds offer a more secure option, according to Electric Cloud. Farhang highlighted that Electric Cloud helps bridge the gap between physical and virtual IT environments and development processes and tools to create smart development clouds as its cloud solutions promise workflow automation, parallel execution, workload distribution and management, process and machine monitoring, and tool integration.

Leading companies across a variety of industries, including semiconductors, enterprise IT, ISVs, mobile devices, and transactional websites rely on Electric Cloud's development cloud solutions.

The webinar also highlighted: a blueprint for creating a private development cloud that enables IT to provide infrastructure as a service to developers; how task and workflow automation, resource management, and tool integrations allow development teams to effectively use a private cloud infrastructure and run these tasks in a shared environment; and how IT organizations at leading enterprises have leveraged Electric Cloud solutions to transform generic grid and VM infrastructure into private development clouds tailored to their development teams.

To access the archived version of the webinar, click here.

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