The Hybrid Cloud: The Journey Toward Hybrid IT

Abstract

The Cloud paradigm is definitely journeying in the right direction toward its ordained destination (the one-stop IT solution for all kinds of institutions, innovators, and individuals). The various stakeholders are playing their roles and responsibilities with all the alacrity and astuteness to smoothen the Cloud route. Resultantly, there are a number of noteworthy innovations and transformations in the Cloud space and they are being consciously verified and validated by corporates in order to avail them with confidence. There are IT product vendors, service organizations, independent software vendors, research laboratories, and academic institutions closely and collaboratively working to make the Cloud idea decisively penetrative and deftly pervasive. In this chapter, we are to describe the various unique capabilities of hybrid Clouds and how the feature-rich and state-of-the-art hybrid Cloud offerings from various Cloud service providers (CSP) are resulting in scores of innovations, disruptions, and transformations for the ensuing Cloud era.