Chapter 13. New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2013 – Azure Hybrid Patterns
Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. | ||
--Spock, Star Trek |
With the advent of cloud computing, there is now more demand for bridging on-premises applications to cloud-hosted applications and services.
A hybrid cloud solution is when applications or services are spread across two or more private, public, or community clouds.
A private cloud is an infrastructure dedicated to a single organization. There are two variations on this, on-premises private cloud and an externally hosted private cloud. An on-premises private cloud is hosted within an organization's own data center, while an externally hosted private cloud is located in a public data center with resources dedicated solely to your organization.
A public cloud belongs to a service provider who hosts the infrastructure and is generally available to the public. Customers...