As the initial barriers to large-scale cloud adoption have given way to more considered approaches, ‘hybrid cloud’ models have emerged as the force de rigueur for enterprise IT.
But many hybrid cloud implementations to date have been more packaging than substance and often result in the creation of the same technology silos that enterprises have been making for decades.
So how did we get here?
Rather than corner oneself into a purely public or private model, CIOs recognised that there is a place for everything and everything should be in its place. What works best for one workload may not necessarily be the best for another.
This thinking gave rise to the hybrid cloud as we now know it: an architecture where a mix of both privately owned (on-site data centres and servers) and publicly available (hyper-scale and off-premise cloud providers) infrastructure is used within the same IT architecture.
While it could be attributed to early levels of maturity, what many organisations are left with is a shambolic environment where legacy applications on on-site servers are completely separated from the workloads that have been migrated to enterprise public cloud and commodity cloud providers.
All the elements of hybrid cloud are there but, without a way to easily mix and match capabilities between these separate environments as required, the true potential of a hybrid strategy can never be realised.
To put it another way, having water, hops, yeast and barley does not automatically mean you have beer. It takes the right mix of these ingredients to create the end product. In much the same way, traditional hybrid cloud models are merely a collection of the required parts but they are not always connected in any meaningful way.
According to research by Telsyte, in less than five years’ time some 40 per cent of Australian enterprises will employ a hybrid cloud model, with the total spend approaching $800 million by 2019.
Read More: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/12/23/technology/hybrid-cloud-needs-come-age
But many hybrid cloud implementations to date have been more packaging than substance and often result in the creation of the same technology silos that enterprises have been making for decades.
So how did we get here?
Rather than corner oneself into a purely public or private model, CIOs recognised that there is a place for everything and everything should be in its place. What works best for one workload may not necessarily be the best for another.
This thinking gave rise to the hybrid cloud as we now know it: an architecture where a mix of both privately owned (on-site data centres and servers) and publicly available (hyper-scale and off-premise cloud providers) infrastructure is used within the same IT architecture.
While it could be attributed to early levels of maturity, what many organisations are left with is a shambolic environment where legacy applications on on-site servers are completely separated from the workloads that have been migrated to enterprise public cloud and commodity cloud providers.
All the elements of hybrid cloud are there but, without a way to easily mix and match capabilities between these separate environments as required, the true potential of a hybrid strategy can never be realised.
To put it another way, having water, hops, yeast and barley does not automatically mean you have beer. It takes the right mix of these ingredients to create the end product. In much the same way, traditional hybrid cloud models are merely a collection of the required parts but they are not always connected in any meaningful way.
According to research by Telsyte, in less than five years’ time some 40 per cent of Australian enterprises will employ a hybrid cloud model, with the total spend approaching $800 million by 2019.
Read More: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/12/23/technology/hybrid-cloud-needs-come-age
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