Are hybrid clouds a solution to PaaS and SaaS integration issues?

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

Users of cloud services report that Software as a Service and Platform as a Service create more application integration problems than Infrastructure as a Service — or even private IT. That can’t continue if cloud services are to reach maximum potential. Hybrid clouds can help by creating a uniform platform for deployment of integrated applications, facilitating the use of deployment/integration tools, and guiding application development and application lifecycle management practices to optimize integration. However, if hybridization isn’t done right, the result could be worse than before.

Application integration is the process of linking application components to connect workflows and to optimize user access to productivity tools. Nearly every enterprise uses application integration with their internal IT assets, because most applications today are componentized in some way — at the minimum they are presented from an application server through a Web server and to a range of browsers or mobile applications…

Most IT professionals are good at integration in the current IT environments. The problem with the cloud is that public cloud services don’t present the same integration options as internal IT, and that’s particularly true for Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS), because these services limit the range of middleware, deployment tools and integration tools available to an IT pro. They also introduce dynamic resource connection requirements. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) — because all the system and application software is supplied by the user — looks more like internal IT and has proved easier to integrate because only one of these problems is present…

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