Adopting a hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud is the future of IT across enterprises, as it offers the best of both worlds—the scale, resilience, and innovation of public clouds coupled with the control and security of private or on-premises clouds. As we briefly explored earlier, there are several high-value use cases that a hybrid cloud offers enterprises, such as cloud bursting, geo-redundancy, fallback DR, and a sandbox for innovation. In this section, we will explore hybrid cloud adoption and what constitutes a hybrid cloud.

The market share for hybrid clouds has been growing rapidly in recent years, as more and more enterprises look to take advantage of the benefits offered by combining public cloud capabilities with their existing on-premises or private cloud environments. Some critical factors contributing to the growth of hybrid cloud adoption include the need for data sovereignty, compliance, cost optimization, agility, and scalability.

Although cloud infrastructure...