At first, there was “moving to the cloud,” then there were private and public clouds, which progressed into hybrid clouds. The domains of cloud computing have been evolving rapidly, galloping forward to meet the business needs of an industry that relies on data more than ever before.
The succession of this progression also follows a business logic, this time, one related to risk. When businesses first moved to the cloud, they wanted to scale operations easily and enable working everywhere. Then risks joined the equation, and businesses preferred using their own clouds. Some moved just a part of their workloads to the public cloud to save costs, but many agree that the most sensible model nowadays is a hybrid cloud, in which one or more clouds are part of the infrastructure, with or without on-premises assets. Today’s reality is also multicloud, with businesses relying on multiple vendors to meet their cloud computing needs.
Humans are often said to have their feet on the ground and their heads in the clouds. It’s a good analogy for hybrid cloud infrastructures. Some of it may still be on-site, some of it could be a private cloud and some workloads that carry lower risks can be placed on a public cloud where costs are lower and scaling up and down can be extremely agile.
What about risks? While they still exist, there are ways to mitigate them and still enjoy the best of both worlds that a hybrid infrastructure can offer.
Does Scaling Up in the Cloud Mean Scaling Up Risk?
The short answer: It depends.
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