Enterprise IT leaders are embracing private clouds to improve agility, reduce costs and accelerate development cycles as they transition to a service-based delivery model. With private cloud, IT can achieve virtually all the key benefits of the public cloud such as resource pooling, self-service provisioning and elastic scalability while asserting greater control over security, protection and compliance. This e-book provides an overview of private cloud models, the underlying technologies that enable successful deployments and the security challenges and benefits of deploying a private cloud. Finally, it discusses security technologies and approaches that maximize protection, minimize risk and leverage the private cloud to drive innovation.