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Cloud Computing For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Cloud Computing For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Judith S. Hurwitz, Daniel Kirsch
August 2020
Beginner
320 pages
8h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Managing a Hybrid and Multicloud Environment

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Deconstructing cloud concepts

check Discovering resource pools/cloud models and services

check Evaluating the role of the data center

check Finding out how the public cloud fits and when the private cloud shines

Management of a hybrid and multicloud environment is a complex topic as it spans computing activities in on-premises data centers, private and hybrid clouds, and numerous public cloud environments. In the past, computing resources were physical and highly siloed. Therefore, managing individual systems combined with their workloads made sense.

But times have changed with the advent of cloud computing. In this distributed work, many applications are independent of their underlying infrastructure. Organizations no longer look at individual computing resources as stand-alone systems. Rather the combination of the data center, private and public cloud, and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications now define computing. The users of computing services within your business no longer distinguish between a workload running in a ...

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