6 ALTERNATIVE CLOUD MODELS
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Elon Musk (billionaire entrepreneur) in an interview with The Daily Beast, 25 April 2011
If every workload could be run on the same cloud platform, life would be simple. However, this is not the case. Instead, hybrid cloud is the reality, with workloads running on multiple different clouds. Not every private cloud can provide the services that an organisation requires. Not every public cloud provider fulfils every requirement, either.
Creating an overall platform that enables different workloads to operate together in as seamless a manner as possible requires different types of cloud business models: cloud brokers and cloud ...
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