Fundamentals of the hybrid cloud computing model

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Mark Mitchell Szynaka.

Many industry projections state that enterprises will review or adopt some sort of hybrid cloud deployment this year. But a vast majority of those enterprises remain unclear on the fundamentals of hybrid cloud computing.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines hybrid cloud as a composition of at least one private cloud and at least one public cloud. A hybrid cloud is typically offered in one of two ways: A vendor has a private cloud and forms a partnership with a public cloud provider, or a public cloud provider forms a partnership with a vendor that provides private cloud platforms…

In this definition, NIST supposes that vendors will create these partnerships and consumers will choose a well-defined tandem public-private combination that meets their needs. In reality, though, most enterprises develop a private cloud environment and then search for a public cloud provider that will best connect the two clouds…

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