Cloud computing is creating a new era for IT by providing a set of services that appears to have infinite capacity, immediate deployment and high availability at trivial cost. While many organizations look at the cloud as a way to lower costs, there is actually more value in the increased speed, flexibility, scalability and ease of delivery provided by cloud environments.

But despite the benefits, not all deployments are moving to public cloud providers. Due to technical, performance and regulatory reasons, many businesses are adopting private clouds for some applications such as analytic databases.  Read this white paper to learn more about the differences of private versus public clouds and how each one can be applied to specific areas including:

• Data warehousing
• Business intelligence and analytic databases
• Database workloads
• And more