HYBRID CLOUD

Adopting hybrid cloud enables customers to segregate the costs of using cloud services for specific tasks such as backup, archiving, and disaster recovery. It can be considered a step up on both private and public cloud, since it offers the security of private cloud and the cost benefits delivered by the public cloud. The private cloud elements allow enterprises to keep control of their critical data and applications without loosing the flexibility of the public one.

There are apparetly no downsides to adopt this type of cloud computing, but still there are some situation in which it is not possible or not recomendable to use this solution. Security concerns are by far the major reason why organizations are not using the hybrid cloud right away. If the data must be kept at all stages under strict control, then the public cloud can’t be considered. Another aspect that needs to be remembered is the fact that using both solutions requires a high level of expertises in the company’s IT team. The requirements and the needs might change from time to time so it would be impossible to relay on someone who is not expert in the field to decide weather or not using one or the other solution for a new project.