Private cloud computing enables you to consolidate diverse enterprise systems into one that is cloud‎-based and can be accessed by end‎-users seamlessly‎,‎ regardless of their location or changes in overall demand‎.‎ Expert authors Steve Smoot and Nam K‎.‎ Tan distill their years of networking experience to describe how to build enterprise networks to create a private cloud‎.‎ With their techniques you‎'‎ll create cost‎-saving designs and increase the flexibility of your enterprise‎,‎ while maintaining the security and control of an internal network‎.‎ "Private Cloud Computing" offers you a complete cloud architecture for enterprise networking by synthesizing WAN optimization‎,‎ next‎-generation data centers‎,‎ and virtualization in a network‎-friendly way‎,‎ tying them together into a complete solution that can be progressively migrated to as time and resources permit‎.‎ It describes next‎-generation data center architectures such as the virtual access‎-layer‎,‎ the unified data center fabric and the ‎'‎rack‎-and‎-roll‎'‎ deployment model‎.‎ It provides an overview of cloud security and cloud management from the server virtualization perspective‎.‎ It presents real‎-world case studies‎,‎ configuration and examples that allow you to easily apply practical know‎-how to your existing enterprise environment‎.‎ It offers effective private cloud computing solutions to simplify the costly and problematic challenge of enterprise networking and branch server consolidation‎.‎