Hybrid Cloud: Delivering the Best of Public and Private Clouds
August 15, 2013
Grazed from CIO. Author: Editorial Staff.
On May 21, VMware announced the launch of its own public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)—the vCloud Hybrid Service. Since then, we’ve had hundreds of conversations with our customers and partners, who have made it even clearer there is a need for —and much enthusiasm about—a true hybrid cloud service.
For more details, watch this short video with Bill Fathers, VMware Senior Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud BU, discusses VMware’s move to IaaS. A common theme in our conversations about hybrid cloud was the (healthy) tension between:
- business teams striving to launch new products and services, move into new markets, and generally drive growth, and
- overloaded IT organizations that are rewarded for avoiding outages and cutting costs…
Public cloud has the potential to benefit both, helping to increase agility and reduce cost (both real costs and opportunity costs). But today public cloud deployments are not the norm, or even widespread inside the average company. Why is that?…
Read more from the source @ http://blogs.cio.com/hybrid-cloud/18194/hybrid-cloud-delivering-best-public-and-private-clouds