Hybrid cloud strategy

Before using the hybrid cloud architecture, we need to ask ourselves, what are we trying to achieve through a hybrid cloud solution?

Cloud-native solutions for hybrid environments have the following benefits:

• Integration of both on-premises resources with cloud resources
• Built-in integration with cloud services
• Virtually unlimited capacity (compute and storage) for storing logs and running correlations between events
• Virtually unlimited storage capacity for storing data (for backups, regulation compliance, disaster recovery, and more)
• Support for federated identity management (allows a single identity to access resources in hybrid environments)

Let's look at some of the most common use cases for choosing hybrid cloud solutions.

Cloud bursting

The idea behind cloud bursting is to allow applications that run on-premises to burst into the cloud when there is a need for extra resource capacity – both planned and...