The provisioning and consumption of resources in on-premises propositions

We are talking about multi-cloud in this book. In Chapter 1, Introduction to Multi-Cloud, we defined that the cloud could involve public clouds such as Azure, AWS, and GCP, but also private clouds. In most cases, private clouds are still on-premises environments that take a significant investment. Companies use private clouds for different reasons, the most important one being compliancy—data and systems that aren't allowed to be moved to a public cloud.

The challenge with private clouds is that companies have to make major up-front investments to get hardware that enables the setup of a private cloud. They don't want to overspend by way of too much hardware, but they also don't want to be confronted with capacity limits on their hardware. Forecasting and capacity management are really crucial in terms of cost control on private clouds, even more so than in public clouds.

One of...