Chapter 7

Introducing All Types of Clouds

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Examining the nature of public, private, hybrid, and multiclouds

check Identifying the different forms of private cloud business

check Discovering the business and technical drivers behind the emergence of multicloud

check Coordinating the integration between cloud services, data, and applications

As cloud technologies have evolved, many different cloud models have emerged to solve specific business challenges. This evolution isn’t surprising since more and more businesses are viewing the cloud as the future of their computing environment. Although these different computing models make the world of the cloud more complicated, it has given rise to cloud solutions that incorporate all the capabilities needed to efficiently and effective solve specific problems. But having more types of clouds doesn’t mean that they’re in conflict — quite the opposite. When a business builds a technical strategy for using many of these different cloud environments in a harmonized and coordinated way, it is called a multicloud.

Understanding Public Clouds

Public ...

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