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Hybrid Clouds Find Favor in the Enterprise

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Hybrid Clouds Find Favor in the Enterprise

 
June 13, 2014

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  By Mae Kowalke,
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There’s no place for ideology in business. What works is what is adopted, and that’s why the hybrid cloud is emerging as the new normal among businesses.

Leaders in cloud usage are unquestionably winning. Roughly 69 percent of those that effectively use software delivery outperform their rivals, according to IBM (News - Alert). What’s more, IMB reports that businesses that adopt the cloud experience 1.9 times the revenue growth, 2.4 times the profit, and half of all firms that adopt the cloud expand into new markets.


Instead of leveraging the public cloud for all computing needs, however, or entirely setting up a private cloud for greater control and customization, many organizations are moving to a hybrid of the two approaches that delivers the scalability and ease of use of the public cloud and the security and control of the private cloud.

This mix of the two cloud options is catching on like wildfire; roughly 61 percent of enterprises will be using a hybrid environment by the end of this year, according to IBM.

With hybrid clouds, businesses can strategically gain the ability to dynamically consume and deliver cloud resources, choose the best application for the job regardless of delivery platform, and achieve greater capacity, efficiency and integration across platforms.

There are various ways that companies are using the hybrid model. Many are simply haphazardly hybrid, mixing both public cloud services and private cloud options on an as-needed basis. Others are taking a more disciplined and strategic approach.

The strategic approach is leveraging what some call dynamic hybrid clouds.

A dynamic cloud is an organized cloud infrastructure that enables the blending of the public and private cloud instead of being a mishmash of services that happen to be a mix of the two. Businesses can pick the best application for the job, regardless of delivery platform. Data can be located wherever regulatory or security requirements necessitate. Workloads can be located wherever is the best fit for the computing job.

Dynamic cloud also brings a new level of integration. Data can be shared across platforms more easily, creating additional opportunities.

It is no longer a question of “if” a company will adopt the cloud, but how. And the solution that is emerging as the best practice among enterprises is a dynamic hybrid cloud solution that uses the best technology for the job at hand.




Edited by Alisen Downey
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