Private, public, or hybrid?

Now that we’ve explored the benefits and challenges related to private and public cloud environments, let’s discuss when each of those environments makes sense or when you may use both! The term hybrid cloud refers to an organization that leverages both private and public cloud environments. It is quite common to find organizations that are running hybrid cloud environments when they’ve been around for a while and have already made significant investments in building out their data centers. Rather than completely discounting historical investments, organizations may choose to slowly sunset their existing data centers based on existing contractual and hardware life cycle constraints. For example, if they refreshed all of the hardware in one of their data centers a year ago and the hardware still has 4 years before it becomes obsolete, that company may choose to migrate infrastructure from other data centers to the public cloud while retaining...