What Is Private Clouds ?

Private clouds are cloud infrastructure that is dedicated to a single organization.

 Private clouds may be hosted by the organization itself, or may be hosted by a cloud services provider who ensures that the cloud services are not shared with any other organization.

Private clouds are more than large-scale hypervisor deployments; they can use the Microsoft System Center 2012 management suite, which makes it possible to provide self-service delivery of services and applications.

 For example, in an organization that has its own private cloud, it would be possible for users to use a self-service portal to request multitier applications including web server, database server, and storage components.

 Windows Server 2012 and the components of the System Center 2012 suite are configured in such a way that this service request can be processed automatically, without requiring the manual deployment of virtual machines and database server software.