2014 is the Year Servers Get ‘Smart,’ Hybrid Cloud Grows Up

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Robert Miggins.

According to Gartner analysts, more than half of IT budgets will be spent on cloud computing in the next few years. There’s no need to speculate on whether cloud adoption will continue to rise in 2014 and beyond – it will. However, exactly how cloud infrastructure is deployed and managed is up for grabs.

While both public and private cloud deployments are on the rise, it’s hybrid cloud environments that currently provide organizations with cloud computing’s best benefits – a trend that will shift in 2014 as the next generation of dedicated servers, or "smart servers," evolve to offer all of hybrid cloud’s core qualities, but manageable as one environment. Today’s hybrid cloud models are complex environments that combine a single-tenant private architecture with a multi-tenant cloud, in order to achieve private cloud’s security and performance benefits along with public cloud’s high availability and security…

Many service providers and systems integrators have emerged to address the challenges of deploying a hybrid cloud, yet there are obstacles that these providers can’t address or eliminate because of hybrid’s inherent complications. Smart servers employ a thin layer of virtualization which gives them scale and flexibility, offering a simpler and more cost efficient alternative, while still retaining the basic reliability of bare metal infrastructure…

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