Why all the hype for hybrid Cloud?
February 20, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Patrick Budmar.
Stand by, Cloud busting is here. And that’s just on reason there is so much focus on the hybrid Cloud, according to VMware Cloud infrastructure and management product marketing manager, Aaron Steppat. "What Cloud busting means is the ability for a company using the hybrid Cloud to use infrastructure that isn’t on their premises, such as from a public Cloud, but in a secured, measured and controlled state to get extra capacity for their infrastructure requirements," Steppat said.
He added a "key enabler of that ability" is workload portability or mobility. Thomas Duryea Cloud services general manager, Adam Beavis, refers to the hybrid Cloud as a "good stepping stone" for people who want to move forward and make use of the technology. "People are looking for the agility that Cloud offers, but also want to maintain that control of the on-premise solution, whether it is for security reasons or compliance," he said…
As the elasticity or cost model of the Cloud is already appealing to businesses, Beavis said the hybrid Cloud setup "softens the blow from the big bang approach," namely where a business takes everything and puts it into the Cloud. Hitachi Data Systems A/NZ chief technology officer, Adrian De Luca, points out that the level of conservativeness among Australian CIOs is still quite high, at least compared to thouse around the world…
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