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  technical and organisational aspects, and gives you some best practices on running
  your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud in production and making it future-proof. Download
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11 March 2015

# Building a private cloud? Taking the leap

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In this whitepaper, you will read about moving your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud from the proof-of-concept stage to a production environment.

It covers technical and organisational aspects, and gives you some best practices on running your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud in production and making it future-proof.

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