Do the benefits of hybrid cloud computing live up to the hype?

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: David Davis.

Cloud Computing is all the rage right now and you likely are being barraged by every vendor under the sun about it. But, how can you tell if the cloud is really beneficial for you or if it’s just a bunch of marketing hype?

The most useful form of cloud computing marketed toward data center admins and infrastructure professionals is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). With IaaS, you are simply running your servers in the provider’s data center. This model gives you elasticity, pay as you go pricing and the ability to offload the work associated with running those servers. However, with a typical IaaS provider, your servers aren’t on your network…

What’s different about hybrid cloud?

Public cloud solutions have been around for a number of years, making hybrid cloud one of the latest flavors vendors are pushing. The difference between the two is that a hybrid cloud is designed to complement — not replace — your existing data center, servers and network infrastructure. You can think of a hybrid cloud as a typical public cloud but with a network connection back to your corporate data center, allowing the apps running in both places to work together. If you only need Internet-facing servers, then you only need a public cloud, but if you need additional capacity for your corporate data center or application servers that end users will access in the corporate network, then a hybrid cloud is the answer…

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