Hybrid Cloud
A Hybrid Cloud is any combination of Clouds. It could be a Private Cloud and one or more Public Clouds. Similarly it could be a Virtual Private Cloud and one or more Public Clouds. It is, however, more than just multiple Clouds. There needs to be resources shared among the Clouds. An example is Cloud Bursting.
The following figure is one example of a Hybrid Cloud. It uses Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software as a Service (SaaS) to illustrate a Hybrid Cloud.
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Author
Douglas K Barry
Principal
Barry & Associates, Inc.
The Savvy Manager's Guide
Douglas K Barry is also the author of a book that explains Web Services, service-oriented architecture, and Cloud Computing in an easy-to-understand, non-technical manner.
Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (Second Edition)
by Douglas K Barry with David Dick
This is a guide for the savvy manager who wants to capitalize on the wave of change that is occurring with Web Services, service-oriented architecture, and—more recently—Cloud Computing. The changes wrought by these technologies will require both a basic grasp of the technologies and an effective way to deal with how these changes will affect the people who build and use the systems in our organizations. This book covers both issues. Managers at all levels of all organizations must be aware of both the changes that we are now seeing and ways to deal with issues created by those changes.