Explaining the Community Cloud
October 13, 2014
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.
Cloud computing continues to steamroll ahead as more organizations adopt the platform, but to be clear, what we’re really seeing is an increase in how organizations are utilizing the Internet. Marketing terms aside, there are more resources out there, better underlying systems for support and a greater need to distribute data.
When cloud computing first emerged, we had some distinct models to work with. Hybrid became the more popular option among enterprises. But the challenge was connecting a public and private instance together to form a robust and secure cloud environment. Now, technology has come far enough where creating that link is much easier…
There are direct partnerships between private cloud companies and public cloud providers to create more secure and robust connections. This unification of technologies through APIs, connectors, and virtualization has created more markets and services around cloud delivery methodologies…
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