Hybrid Cloud? It’s About Choice.
October 22, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Kevin Chew.
Even if you’re not a technologist, I want you to understand that hybrid cloud computing is all about choice: Choice about where your data resides. Choice about how your data is managed. Choice about where your data processing actually happens. Choices can be used:
- to make economic decisions to lower the total cost of ownership of data,
- to maximize your quality of services, or
- to comply with regulatory constraints on data sovereignty.
In today’s environment, vendors are moving fast. If we wind the clock back a year, the main cloud services like Microsoft Azure, Amazon, Terremark, or Rackspace were fairly proprietary, closed environments. But they all quickly realized that IT heterogeneity is what customers want…
Customers Want Choice, Not Monolithic Options
Managing a mix of platforms is a reality for CIOs’ deployment models. And ultimately, that’s what the cloud is: It’s a deployment model. If I take my infrastructure and my workloads and move them to the cloud, my ability to do so in a closed, homogeneous cloud is very limited…
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