As more organisations today seek to gain benefit from the flexibility and scalability of cloud environments, many struggle with business and regulatory constraints that keep them from being good candidates for public or private cloud offerings.
Perhaps they operate within a highly regulated space that takes public cloud off the table, but don't have the internal resources to set up or administer suitable private cloud infrastructure. Or maybe they have specific industry requirements for performance that aren't readily available in the public cloud, and would be expensive to build out for a single organisation.
These might seem like hard-luck cases, but fortunately, there is another option that could still put the cloud within the reach of these organisations. Called community cloud, this option makes it possible to set up a private cloud in a limited multi-tenant environment that is designed for similar organisations that have in common very specific technical and regulatory requirements. Typically administered by some sort of underlying industry organisation or, in the case of government entities, some sort of overarching agency, these community clouds convey the benefits of the cloud while still giving organisations the power to meet needs that the open market can't cater to.
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