Best of Both Clouds: Hybrid

An article in ITWorld centers on online marketing firm, Hubspot, and how they realized that they would need additional computing power, hence, CIO Jim O'Neill's creation of the hybrid cloud where they can keep their important web hosting functions in the private cloud, and use public cloud for flexibility of resources. In the 2011 Gartner Data Center Conference, 78% of some 2,500 attendees planned to build private cloud services by 2014. O'Neill emphasized though that creating a hybrid cloud takes careful planning. The challenge remains to be the absence of standards for interoperability between public and private clouds. Gartner researcher Thomas Bittman shares that while this is the case, there are four centers of gravity for hybrid cloud environments:

• Dominant private cloud vendor VMWare
• OpenStack model
• Amazon's series of cloud offerings
• Large vendors such as IBM, HP, Intel, etc.

These centers have particular characteristics that can help organizations in choosing the right hybrid for their business. Read the description of each center in ITWorld and see how any of the four can be combined to maximize an organization's cloud interoperability requirements.  

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