Hybrid Clouds

Was just asked to define the whys and whens about  hybrid clouds and this article was useful. Hybrid cloud (Mix of Public+Private) is around for some of the same reasons that Edge computing is.

True hybrid cloud moves into the mainstream  By Stuart Miniman

In the beginning, the only “real” cloud was public cloud.

There were those that thought that it wasn’t a fit for the enterprise, or perhaps would only be used for test/dev environments. And there were plenty of historical failures for solutions before public cloud to bolster these assertions. But today we know that public cloud is a significant driver of innovation and change in the information technology landscape.

In turn, private cloud was derided by the public cloud crowd as nothing more than “legacy mindset” or a desperate attempt by box sellers to stay relevant by co-opting the cloud term. Wikibon put forth the term “True Private Cloud” in 2015 to show that cloud is as much an operational model as it is a technology (and that private cloud needs to be more than “virtualization plus”). Back in the early 2010s, hybrid cloud was often discussed as a “halfway house” on the journey to cloud, or part of a “bimodal” strategy.

For most enterprise companies today, hybrid cloud (having both public and private cloud) and multicloud (having multiple clouds, a superset of hybrid cloud) are just as much a reality as multivendor was in the past. The premise of Wikibon’s research on hybrid cloud is that there are many reasons why hybrid and multicloud solutions are needed, and even preferable.... "