What’s Behind the Hybrid Cloud Hype?

Grazed from LinuxInsider. Author: Jay Lyman.

Hybrid cloud technology is garnering much attention of late — whether for cutting-edge development and the continuous integration and release processes achieved through devops, or for traditional enterprise-proven approaches to infrastructure and applications.

There’s more to hybrid clouds than hype. The ability to effectively and efficiently manage different infrastructures and applications across a range of cloud computing environments allows organizations to align their many applications, initiatives and units with whichever cloud environments — public or private — make the most sense…

The Outlook Is Clear

The growth outlook for cloud computing — including public, private and hybrid deployments — is strong, according to data from ChangeWave, a service of 451 Research. Of more than 1,100 respondents involved in IT buying decisions surveyed in April 2013, 40 percent reported that their organization used public cloud services — up 11 percent from a year earlier…

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