Blurred lines: Hybrid cloud deployment the future of the enterprise

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Adam Hughes.

Does an enterprise go with a public or a private cloud deployment? It’s no longer one or the other. Nearly half of large enterprises will have deployed a hybrid cloud by the end of 2017, according to a recent Gartner Inc. study. The growth of hybrid cloud only compounds the use of cloud computing in general, which will account for the bulk of IT spending by 2017, the report noted.

"Hybrid is indeed the cloud architecture that will dominate," said Dave Bartoletti, analyst with Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. "We’re seeing over 50% of enterprises prioritizing private cloud in 2013 to 2014, and there will likely be very few private clouds that don’t have a public [hybrid] component." Private clouds don’t provide scaling options and cost efficiencies to the degree that public clouds do, but enterprises also want the option to keep some data behind their firewalls…

A hybrid model takes the best of both worlds — or clouds, that is. Bartoletti went even further, saying, "everyone" has plans to extend the private cloud to include public resources, which leads to a cloud that offers infrastructure both on- and off-premises, as paramount for an enterprise…

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