There is no shortage of cloud computing hosting or infrastructure options out there for companies to consider when they are launching or upgrading mission-critical applications.

1. Hybrid Clouds
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There is no shortage of cloud computing hosting or infrastructure options out there for
companies to consider when they are launching or upgrading mission-critical applications.
There is public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, internal or third-party cloud hosting,
just to name a few. Naturally, these cloud options have led to the development of a hybrid
model of cloud computing, known as hybrid cloud.
What is hybrid cloud?
Simply put, hybrid cloud computing is a form of cloud that is a combination of two or more
models of cloud delivery. Therefore, it is a combination of at least one public cloud and one
private cloud. In most cases, hybrid cloud is set up in one of the following ways:
1. The company manages some resources internally and has other resources provided
externally by a third-party provider.
2. A third-party provider that offers private cloud creates a partnership with a public
cloud provider to offer flexibility to companies with a hybrid model, or the third-
party offers both a dedicated private cloud as well as multi-tenant cloud.
An example of a hybrid cloud set-up is a company utilizing a third-party public cloud
provider for something like data archiving or storage, while still using an internal cloud
infrastructure for data that is used on a day-to-day basis to run the businesses key
applications.
Advantages of the hybrid cloud model
While some companies may have a preference for one style over the other, sometimes the
hybrid approach is best suited to your evolving business needs for varying applications that
require a different compute model.
Here are three of the main benefits to using hybrid cloud:

2. 1. Scalability: The hybrid model allows companies to be flexible with how they want
to set up cloud computing resource models. Like the example above, companies can
use their internal private cloud set-up for more sensitive data or legacy applications
that do not sit well on the multi-tenant cloud. Sensitive data can partitioned and
protected behinddedicated firewalls, allowing for better control over the movement
of data. At the same time, they can use a public cloud to burst for additional
compute resources or offsite data storage. And, over time, companies can start to
move large quantities of data from their internal infrastructure to a third-party
provider, which will save money and create more efficient management of data.
2. Cost effectiveness: The hybrid model is effective for companies that want to reduce
the costs associated with only maintaining cloud internally through their IT
department. Hardware, software and maintenance costs can creep up and the hybrid
model helps reduce some of the strain on IT internally from a cost perspective by
bursting to meet seasonal demands without having to add incremental infrastructure.
3. Try it before you buy it: Hybrid cloud allows companies to test multi-tenant cloud
computing with little risk and no up-front capital requirements before making a
decision about whether or not cloud is the right fit for your company.
Cloud computing is not going away and despite the overuse of the term in the market as a
whole, there are real and tangible business benefits to leveraging a dedicated, multi-tenant or
a hybrid model..As the technology continues to evolve, so will the number of cloud models
that companies will be able to explore and implement into their hybrid IT strategy.