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Hybrid IT For Dummies, HPE Special Edition 6 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. you for remote support and administration of your environ ment as well, making these kinds of services another potential augmentation for your existing staff. Private Cloud Features and Capabilities For options in which you decide to keep data center infra structure privately owned, you can ultimately convert those services to private cloud. This doesn't mean that you wander into the data center with a magic wand, recite an enchant ment, and magically create a new data center paradigm. In reality, it takes some planning and effort to get from a local data center to a private cloud. But, what, exactly, is meant by the term private cloud? Let's start by telling you what it is not. Private cloud does not equate to highly virtualized. If you have a highly virtualized data center, that's all you have unless you've taken steps to add some additional capabilities, including the following: ✓ Automation: When you provision a service at a cloud provider, the process happens automatically. There's not some employee frantically banging away at a keyboard and mouse to fulfill your request along with the thou sands of other requests that come in every hour. This automation enables cloud providers to focus far more on providing additional value to clients rather than just the basics. ✓ Orchestration: Closely related to automation, orchestra tion capabilities allow cloud providers to be able to link automated processes together so that even complex tasks can be handled without a human having to get involved. ✓ Self‐service capabilities: Being able to automate and orchestrate processes means that users can be trusted to request their own resources. IT can place constraints around what is allowed to be provisioned and in what quantities. Thanks to the magic of automation and orches tration, when a user makes a request for resources, an IT staff person won't need to get involved, which enables