Navigating Your Way to the Hybrid Cloud
John M. Easton, Rashik Parmar · Advances in systems analysis, software engineering, and high performance computing book series · 2016
The authors believe that cloud computing systems should become hybrid in nature for organisations to realise the full business potential that the cloud offers: increased agility, velocity and innovation in business IT. Yet hybrid environments are complex to design, implement and run. To the organisations implementing them, these systems present many architectural challenges that must be solved if the resulting solution is to deliver desired business outcomes. This chapter defines the different types of hybrid cloud: those seen to date as well as those that will emerge in the near future. Using seven key business use cases as a framework, the authors propose a high-level architecture for hybrid cloud computing environments that is practically illustrated with real-world client examples.