It is used to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in both private-cloud, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
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But the responses will likely all relate back to three key models: Public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud.
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The hybrid cloud is ready to take on these challenges, and so too should be the enterprise CIO and CTO, Ziegler says.
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Polycom will be the enabler of private, public and hybrid cloud solutions.
My startup, a company called Egnyte that provides hybrid cloud storage services to small- to medium- sized enterprises, requires a lot of infrastructure.
As our enterprise customers move to open, hybrid cloud architectures, we are addressing their needs with a clear roadmap based on industry-leading open source technologies.
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The public and hybrid cloud services will be jointly provided by Mobily and Virtustream and will offer world-class cloud services to enterprises and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).
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All the laptop and desktop models will come along with Office Home and Business 2013, Fujitsu's My Cloud hybrid cloud service, and options like gesture control.
The management technologies at the center give both IT managers and application managers throughout the company a unified view into applications in private, public and hybrid cloud scenarios.
In his view, the growing adoption of hybrid cloud architectures has resulted in the need to mange a new cloud IT mission and the launching of cloud-enabled business services.
For most Stackato customers, this means their own private cloud, whether on-premise or a hosted virtual private cloud (or even a combination of both as a hybrid cloud setup).
Bottom line: cloud adoption is still an immature process, and organizations are still exploring and getting comfortable with the mixes and matches of private, public and hybrid cloud services.
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Using the BAH study as a guide, and assuming that community cloud economies mimic those expected from a hybrid cloud, transitioning IT services from an agency-owned IT infrastructure to the GSA IaaS platform should deliver benefit cost ratios of approximately 7:1.
In hybrid form, a private cloud can include data stored on premise or off, with a private Platform-as-a-Service middleware layer managing application data and enforcing data security.
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Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.
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So more and more, I think the biggest threat facing cloud-computing companies will be whether or not they can get over the tech debates and instead deliver what customers want: full and unfettered choice across all of the delivery and consumption models: on-premise, public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid.
If you consider SharePoint as an operating system for the enterprise and allow business people to exploit the platform, embrace the ideals of the App Store, using hybrid deployments with integration to cloud solutions (Office365 I think is a killer app here) then it is possible to have the best of both worlds.
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Public cloud, private clouds, and hybrid clouds: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud deployment models?
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However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).
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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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To meet the myriad compliance requirements, banks need solutions that are flexible and provide multiple delivery options (cloud, on premise, and hybrid).
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Not clear from the Gartner survey is how many deployments will be with public cloud services, versus private or hybrid clouds under greater enterprise control.
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And third is cloud, private, public or a hybrid, which provides advantages in building and deploying applications quickly.
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Cloud computing risks vary, dependent in part on whether the cloud is public, private or a hybrid and whether it includes the software, hardware or total infrastructure.
We talked about cloud computing and his vision for a hybrid model, the role that converged infrastructure and automation from the compute resources all the way to VM provisioning, Steve agreed that is what would ultimately be needed to enable private cloud.
In simplified terms the system will be a hybrid network of satellite and terrestrial facilities tied to a ship cloud to transfer very large amounts of data and store it onboard.
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The hybrid model, with companies controlling key resources and outsourcing others to the cloud, has been a popular topic with many of the big tech companies, like Hewlett Packard.
Cloud users stand to benefit much more from cloud computing as the maturity of their usage increases, particularly with hybrid clouds.
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