Hybrid Cloud for Architects

Choosing different cloud combinations

Now we know the different combinations, let's try and answer the following questions: 

• Are all the infra-up clouds private? 
• Conversely, are all the service down clouds public? 
• Can infrastructure up clouds be used only to serve IaaS? 

You get the idea! Now, let's take a close look at the answers to these questions, and then try to decipher what circumstances might impact our decision of which cloud to use. 

So a statement of fact would be, while all infra-up clouds are not private, most of them are. As an exception to this rule, a public cloud provided by Vodafone runs on VMware vRealize Suite, thereby making it an infrastructure up cloud. 

The same thing is applicable to service down clouds. They ...