Summary – maximizing benefits

Having understood the different drivers of the clouds, it's time that we looked at how to use the hybrid clouds in order to maximize the benefits and returns on investments. 

We can follow some very simple principles to decide the mix. The following table lists a few samples: 

Workloads	Example	Ideal Candidate
Always-on virtual machine	A traditional web/app tier	Private cloud
Unlimited burst ability - short term	Big data workers	Public cloud
Development and test environments	Dev/test environments that will be shut down/destroyed when not in use	Public cloud
Sensitive data	Healthcare (PHI/PII) data, payment (PCI) data	Private cloud
Cognitive services adoption	Next-gen platforms	Public cloud
Rapid prototyping	Any new application where the infra requirements are unknown...