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The Hybrid Cloud: What is it?
Why do Some Companies Choose Hybrid?
Hybrid Doesn’t Always Make Sense
Examples of Hybrid Cloud Use
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For the first few years that cloud was becoming prominent, it was praised by IT and finance professionals. However, those who were working with extremely sensitive or mission-critical systems remained reluctant about the technology. What enterprises started to do was strike a balance and adopt the hybrid model, rather than going all-in with either in-house or public systems.
The Hybrid Cloud: What is it?
A hybrid cloud mixes together public cloud hosting from an infrastructure-as-a-service vendor (a company that provides cloud servers) with a private cloud set up internally. In other words, the public and private cloud systems are distinct and established in separate locations, each with their own data centers and specifications. They interact through an encrypted connection which allows apps and information to flow between the two.
It’s critical to understand that hybrid is not one cloud with public and private aspects but two completely different clouds joined together, notes James Sanders of ZDNet. “This allows organizations to store protected or privileged data on a private cloud, while retaining the ability to leverage computational resources from the public cloud to run applications that rely on this data,” he says.
To be clear, you don’t create a hybrid cloud just by connecting a server to a public cloud. The equation is public cloud + private cloud = hybrid cloud. The private system has to be set up as a cloud, using software such as NemakiWare or Joyent SmartDataCenter.
Why do Some Companies Choose Hybrid?
Many businesses decide to set up a hybrid cloud for workloads that rise and fall throughout the year. For instance, the demand for a system that processes transactions could greatly increase in November and December, making hybrid a potential strategy. In this situation, the business might set up a private cloud and then burst to public cloud to be able to avoid reliability problems when demand surges. In order for the private and public clouds to work seamlessly, the hybrid cloud would then be adopted.
Another scenario in which a business might set up a hybrid cloud is when they are working with big data, notes Stephen J. Bigelow in TechTarget. “A company, for example, could use hybrid cloud storage to retain its accumulated business, sales, test and other data,” he says, “and then run analytical queries in the public cloud, which can scale to support demanding distributed computing tasks.”
The incredible adaptability and scalability of public cloud mean that a business does not have to spend a huge amount of money in order to be prepared for temporary rises in demand. The resources are available immediately from the public cloud host, with the business only having to pay for what it uses.