Hosted private cloud is becoming an increasingly common part of the IT playbook for SMBs, and will continue to gain traction as a general tool for transforming their businesses and as a means of ensuring that investments in cloud technology deliver on the promise of performance and flexibility while giving them greater control over security and cost. Isolation of data, access to a dedicated supply of compute resources, and a fixed monthly cost for services are all factors that allow hosted private cloud to natively address business requirements and are likely to be drivers for continued adoption among SMBs.

Hosted private cloud will not necessarily be the ideal platform for every workload, for every business. However, for SMBs that value performance and security as highly as flexibility and agility, hosted private cloud may prove to be the most cost-effective venue for executing many workloads, in comparison to public cloud or other hosted infrastructure environments.

For SMBs, the greatest potential benefits of hosted private cloud include improving IT operating costs by eliminating the potential for overspending and improving utilization under a fixed cost; improving exposure to risk overall via the basic isolation of resources; and lowering the requirements for platform expertise via managed services, all while offering the flexibility and agility benefits expected of cloud. To realize the greatest benefit to their businesses directly, SMBs will have to clearly identify their requirements and align with a service provider that addresses them.

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