While designing a private cloud infrastructure, it needs to be kept in mind that it is different than traditional data centers and requires enormous storage capacities given its nature to grow rapidly.

In a blog published in Infoworld, Matt Prigge writes, “The challenges are certainly not insurmountable, but the solutions come with their own pitfalls. For example, budgeted IT infrastructure investments are typically fairly substantial projects that might implement an entire year's worth of expected storage growth at once.” He adds on to his views, “Some storage hardware is simply impossible to grow in small increments, whereas others may scale gracefully up to a point where an expensive and disruptive forklift upgrade is required. Fortunately, storage vendors have recognized this challenge. Some are increasingly delivering scale-out storage gear that can grow linearly.”

The major pitfall that follows is that organizations do not understand that life after cloud including roles, functionalities, and operations will change drastically than what it is now. Thus, organizations need to implement the infrastructure once overlooking the debacles that might follow in the initial phase.

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