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Private cloud computing offers several significant advantages - including lower costs, faster server deployments, and higher amounts of resiliency. What is often over looked is that the Private Cloud can dramatically changes the game for IT disaster recovery in terms of significantly lower costs, sooner recovery times, and better testability.

Before we talk about the private cloud, let's explore the challenges of it disaster recovery for standard server systems.

Most legacy IT systems are comprised of a heterogeneous set associated with hardware platforms - included in the system over time - with different processors, remembrance, drives, BIOS, and I/O solutions. In a production environment, these heterogeneous systems are designed, and the applications are loaded onto the machines and maintained and patched after a while.

Offsite backups of these heterogeneous systems can be performed and safely stored at an offsite location. There are really 2 options for backing up and restoring the systems:

1) Back the data only - where the files are backed up in the local server hard drives on the offsite location either by way of tapes, online or between data centers on the dedicated fiber connection. The goal is to assure that all of the data is captured and recoverable. In a heterogeneous server environment, duplicate servers need to remain on-hand to execute some sort of bare metal restoration with regard to disaster recovery. As a result, IT disaster recovery with regard to heterogeneous servers systems either sacrifice recovery time or requires the hardware expense be fully duplicated for a bare metal restoration to reach your goals.

Enter failure recovery for private cloud computing. First, with the different discussion about "cloud computing", let me define what i mean by private cloud computer. Private Cloud computing can be a virtualized server environment that is:

Manufactured for rapid server deployment - as with both public and personal clouds, one of the important thing advantages of cloud computing is that servers may be turned up & spun down at the drop of a loath.

Concentrated - the hardware, data storage and network are dedicated to a single client or company not shared between different users.

Secure - Since network is dedicated to a single client, it is connected only to that client's dedicated servers and storage.

Compliant - while using the dedicated secure environment, PCI, HIPAA, together with SOX compliance is quite simply achieved.

Instead of public cloud computing paradigms, which are generally deployed as web servers or development systems, private cloud computing systems are preferred by middle and large size enterprises for the reason that meet the security and compliance requirements these larger organizations and their own customers.

When manufacturing applications are loaded and running for a private cloud, they enjoy a couple of key attributes which dramatically redefine the method to disaster recovery:

1) The servers are virtualized, thereby abstracting the computer and applications from that hardware.

2) Typically (and not required) the cloud runs on the common set of hardware hosts - and also the private cloud footprint may be expanded by simply adding an additional host.