Hybrid Cloud Benefits
The true hybrid cloud benefts would be a customer's choice it's the choice to deploy workloads in the best location for that particular workloads security needs performance needs and scalability needs that means developers can build applications on transient infrastructure that they use just when they need it and then at deploy time infrastructure and operations teams can decide the best location whether it's within the datacenter in the public cloud or a combination of both to deploy the application to take advantage not only of scalability and elasticity in those different cloud environments but different levels of security and control but along with more options a true hybrid cloud solution should also reduce complexity it shouldn't add more friction to the decision points of whereto run applications were to build applications and then where to manage those applications, in turn, you can apply the security and control that you have your private environment to the public cloud so hybrid cloud is really a way for enterprise IT groups to lay down those guardrails for developers that are using the public cloud and say these are the situations where public cloud makes sense and this is the type of data that we can allow moving to the public cloud I think what enterprises need from a hybrid cloud solution is a way to get to yes on cloud faster a way to not put the brakes on cloud use but to enable developers to build faster rollout new applications by giving them access to public cloud resources where it makes sense and then within the same management environment moving workloads back into a private cloud environment within the data center when that makes more sense what we tell enterprises when they're looking at hybrid cloud solutions are building a hybrid cloud strategy is your hybrid today if you have a shared virtualized environment where different business units are sharing access to virtualized servers storage network components you have the makings of a private cloud if anyone in the organization has deployed a web application to a hosting provider or is doing development in the public cloud today then you have the baseline or if you have some private and some public you have the makings of hybrid the goal of a hybrid cloud solution should be to let your the folks that manage your internal resources learn from what works in the public cloud and vice versa an ideal hybrid cloud strategy should make infrastructure that you own as easy to consume as infrastructure from the public cloud and by the same token it should make infrastructure from the public cloud as easy to manage and control as infrastructure you own hybrid cloud shouldn't add more management complexity it should simplify IT operationsyou
