The Hybrid Cloud Model - has this been implemented in to your 2014 business plan?

There is no question about it; cloud adoption will continue to rise in 2014. However, it is the growth of the hybrid cloud that will be the focal point and the most significant IT-altering trend in cloud computing this year.

According to Gartner, half of large enterprises will be operating on a hybrid cloud model and more than half of IT budgets will be spent on cloud computing by 2017.

For those of you that do not know already, a hybrid cloud combines the best of both worlds: a single-tenant private architecture with a multi-tenant cloud. In other words, a mix of private internally used 'cloud', merged with external public cloud services.

So why are more and more businesses choosing a hybrid cloud model?

A hybrid cloud provides the security and performance benefits of the private cloud, along with the high availability and security of the public cloud.

However, the key and crucial motive that is attracting more and more businesses to implement a hybrid cloud model in to their business plan for 2014 is in fact the latest development of the smart server.

Tell me more… What are smart servers?

Smart servers are crucial to the next generation of hybrid environments. This is due to their simplicity, ease of deployment and speed of deployment in only a matter of minutes!

What’s more, a smart server accelerates the process of scaling up resources, while eliminating downtime and optimizing performance to create a better user experience. This is essential for businesses who want to be able to scale up and down, and flex in and out, in co-ordination with the growth and decline in sales demands, as well as the peaks and troughs in the market throughout the year.

As smart servers become more standard, cloud hosting will become an on-demand service where businesses can customize their infrastructure to their exact resource needs, accessing CPU, RAM and storage as and when they require it.

In a nut shell, a hybrid cloud model offers businesses the ability to combine public cloud services with local storage and application solutions that work for them by choosing the right combination of performance, reliability, security and cost that suits their exact business requirements.

Ok, so how can I manage the process?

Cristie's CloneManager™ software product provides users with the ability to continuously  move and manage their systems between and within private and public cloud offerings, as well as virtual and physical environments. It is the complete machine mobility tool which has been designed to provide users with a simple to use interface, and a speedy and reliable process. 

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