Hybrid cloud: A quick guide

Grazed from ChannelPro. Author: Mark Samuels.

The great benefit of the public cloud is the ability to scale resources up and down in response to business demand. The great downside is the perceived security risk – the financial and reputational costs of an information leak mean many organisations are reticent about a full move on-demand.

There is, however, another way. The hybrid cloud offers an alternative for executives who are looking to gain more flexibility than is offered through a private cloud initiative, but without the risk sometimes associated to a full public installation. In a hybrid cloud, an organisation provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally…

Businesses can use the hybrid cloud to combine various on-demand services and create an integrated computing environment. Hybrid cloud allows for cloud bursting, where an application runs in a private cloud and bursts to a public environment when demand requires…

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