There are certain conditions that must be met for a cloud to be qualified as a hybrid cloud.
A cloud is hybrid if:
- The organization data center is connected to the public cloud and sends/receives data from the public cloud
- An organization leverages a number of SaaS applications and moves data between private or data center resources
- An organizational business process is designed in such a way that it leverages the use of private and public clouds
A cloud is not hybrid if:
- Only a handful of people in the organization use the public cloud for deploying or testing applications, and it is completely disconnected from the data center
- An organization is using a SaaS application for a project, but there is no ...