Hybrid Cloud For Dummies

Making Workload Management Transparent

In the hybrid cloud environment, providing transparency to a set of workloads is important, no matter where they’re physically located and which virtualization technologies are used. So, successful vendors look at workload automation from a holistic perspective. Organizations must also be able to include their on-premises systems as part of the overall workload management environment. As data centers become more streamlined and focused, including those workloads as part of an overall hybrid-distributed computing environment will become easier.

Obviously, there’s a huge value to balancing workloads in a hybrid cloud environment. In a traditional data center, workloads tend to be constructed as complete applications rather than independent workloads. Typically, when an application is complex and expensive to operate, costs are simply spread out across the departments that leverage the application. The criteria for success has been accessibility to that application in the data center that needs to connect to resources located in the hybrid cloud. Now, the criteria for success is a model that combines the need for performance, reliability, and security in a constantly changing world. The challenge is to create a customer experience that is flexible, affordable, and predictable.

Balancing the acceptable level of risk and the acceptable level of ...