Approaching Your Distributed Future
Hybrid cloud and edge adoption has been growing steadily and is fastly becoming the standard deployment model for most organizations. In this chapter, we will explain what the hybrid cloud is, how it differs from multicloud, and the various internal and external factors that are shaping hybrid cloud adoption and its distributed future extending into edge computing. By the end of this chapter, we will have addressed the following:
- Key reasons why enterprises are moving toward a hybrid cloud and edge strategy
- External factors, from data sovereignty to ever-changing security and compliance requirements and AI/ML use cases that contribute to this journey
- How a more connected and distributed future with 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing is playing a role
Let’s start by revisiting what hybrid cloud is and how it differs from multicloud. A hybrid cloud is a diverse computing environment, where different types of infrastructures...
