Hybrid cloud under scope

Cloud technologies have been immensely adopted for over a decade. When moving from the on-premises world, organizations seek different ways to increase agility by finding the best offerings based on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models. Besides the versatility of the service delivery models, the next terms that started emerging were the private and public clouds. Other emerging models have been adopted by several organizations when seeking the best cloud strategy. In IT parlance, we can find references to an organization being multi-cloud by using more than one cloud provider or by combining both public and private cloud services, which makes a hybrid cloud environment.

Defining the right cloud strategy depends on each organization’s needs, which vary based on geographic presence, security, and budget requirements. Ultimately, not every workload is permitted to move to the public cloud environment due to data compliance control, for example. In other cases...