Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

Hybrid

A hybrid cloud is any solution that combines a cloud model with any other cloud or non-cloud deployment model. Most organizations tend to gravitate to the hybrid models as no single model or deployment type matches up to the multiple applications and services needed to support a business. Many applications cannot migrate readily to new services. Application dependencies may introduce additional risk for migrated applications. There is rarely a situation where everything is forklift moved all at one time from current state to future state. Hybrid is the typical path to the cloud for currently deployed applications and infrastructure.

In a hybrid IT environment, private clouds, public clouds, community clouds, traditional data centers, ...