Hybrid Cloud – From Survey Darling To Real Business Benefit?

February 2, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from TechWeekEurope. Author: Ben Sullivan.

Hybrid cloud seems to be the darling child of the IT media at the moment. Vendors have jumped on the fact that almost every end-user survey is claiming that organisations will be looking to deploy hybrid solutions, as opposed to cloud-only solutions, in near future. But does this herald the backing by the end user community of hybrid cloud or just a reluctance to fully embrace the cloud?

Part of the reticence to move to a full cloud solution appears to be that, in the minds of some individuals, hybrid cloud delivers a convenient halfway house – an opportunity to try out the cloud, without diving fully in. But in reality this facet is highlighting the biggest issue with hybrid cloud – the majority of these solutions focus on on-premise and/or cloud-based access, with just a fraction of content or functions available…

While such access may be useful, it only goes so far. So what are organisations really looking for?…

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