Identifying Roadblocks in Embracing Hybrid Clouds

Grazed from PCQuest. Author: Dhanya Thakkar.

Cloud computing, the long-debated dream of computing as a utility has the ability to transform a large part of the IT industry; making software even more interesting as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. Developers with pioneering ideas for new internet services no longer require large capital expense in hardware to position their service or the human expense to operate it.

Cloud adoption is finally becoming mainstream. Over the past few months, the nature of the discussions has been shifting from theoretical, to architectural, and now to every operational challenge. The economic benefits offered by public clouds are attractive enough for many organizations to push some of their non-critical workloads to such services while also using private clouds for their mission critical needs…

Understanding the Hybrid Cloud

In its simplistic definition, a hybrid cloud is a combination of both public and private clouds. Such hybrid clouds deployments have proven to be advantageous not just in terms of better economics but also in terms of business agility. The best-of-both-worlds approach of hybrid clouds lets organizations take advantage of public clouds to reduce capital expenditure while still keeping their mission-critical workloads inside the organization. The figures stack up too – according to industry analyst Gartner, 2016 will be a defining year for cloud as private cloud begins to give way to hybrid cloud, and nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017…

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