What will you learn from this free ebook?
- What a managed private cloud entails in practice, how eCloud is technically built, and what it explicitly is not.
- How to fairly compare eCloud, hyperscalers, and on-premise across seven parameters, from cost structure and TCO to lock-in and data residency.
- Who does what in a managed private cloud: the complete division of responsibilities between Epact and your IT team.
- How to deploy eCloud as a disaster recovery site, with a growth path from off-site backup to a fully-fledged second platform.
- How a migration works in practice, which pitfalls to address upfront, and how to transition step-by-step from VMware Cloud Director.
Who is this ebook for?
This ebook is written for anyone who needs to effectively weigh the options between hyperscaler, on-premise, and private cloud, and wants to look beyond the price per virtual machine.
If you recognize yourself in this, then this ebook is for you:
- CIOs and IT managers who want to determine which infrastructure model fits each workload and who carries the operational burden.
- Infrastructure managers running on VMware who have seen licensing costs rise since the Broadcom acquisition.
- IT architects who want to know how eCloud works under the hood: Proxmox VE, storage tiers, network segmentation, and backup with Veeam.
- Organizations with a growing public cloud bill who are looking for more predictability without giving up their hybrid approach.
- IT managers in government, healthcare, and other regulated sectors for whom data residency, NIS2, and demonstrable continuity are no longer just technical details.