Chapter 4. Designing Your Hybrid Cloud: On-Premises and Private Cloud
Once you’ve completed the assessment of your current operations and future needs, you will be well prepared to start making decisions about the elements that will make up your hybrid cloud. The assessment has probably already sparked some ideas about environments you need to add—and existing environments that you need to transform or discard. As you architect your hybrid cloud, you’ll need to make decisions regarding each of the following:
Cloud operating framework
On-premises infrastructure
Public cloud
Cloud service providers
SaaS providers
The workflow is illustrated in Figure 4-1. Plan to define all the IT environments you will need to support both current workloads and future workloads (to the extent you can anticipate your needs).
Figure 4-1. Process flow for designing a hybrid cloud.
Don’t Choose Cloud Providers Too Soon
It can be a mistake to begin making decisions about particular cloud providers before you have outlined the complete list of environments you will need. Once you decide what you’re doing on-premises (a decision that once made you likely have to live with for three to five years at a minimum), you’ll be in a better position to choose providers that complement that choice.
In addition to the various environments that will make up your hybrid cloud architecture, you must also consider ...
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