Considering a Hybrid Cloud deployment? Here’s what you need to know
In their quest for improved security, agility and performance, more and more organizations are moving to the hybrid cloud. By design hybrid clouds offer benefits of both public and private cloud/on-premises data centers. However, there are some challenges in running operations seamlessly. Chiefly, SLAs, visibility into multiple cloud environments, workloads and not least governance and security. These are key areas in successfully managing hybrid clouds. And this calls for in-depth understanding of these areas, over and above the technical factors involved in managing hybrid clouds. Which is why organizations considering a hybrid cloud must have a transitioning strategy in place, which identifies applications (by priority) by cloud migration-readiness. Hybrid Advantages Hybrid cloud prevents vendor lock-in and might reduce hardware costs across platforms. It facilitates use of containers for deployment of mobile and web applications at scale Use of virtual machines, which allows s...