Hybrid cloud is an awesome concept for the world of enterprise IT and beyond. But a question remains as to whether hybrid clouds are truly being created in the current state of business IT infrastructure deployments.

One true definition?

Most businesses have their own data center and then they have cloud. Very few have really created a true hybrid yet that achieves the promised functionality.

So if businesses aren’t currently completely achieving hybrid deployments, what is it? The truest definition of a hybrid cloud entails having the ability to easily move and put back workloads between dedicated and outsourced/cloud environments – seamlessly.

So what’s the hold up?

Broadly, true hybrid cloud faces a few major challenges.

First, depending on the cloud provider you use, your business will experience more or less ability to integrate outside platforms and tools. For instance, you can’t really hybridize cloud at AWS …