{"id":10649,"date":"2014-05-01T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/01\/if-hybrid-holy-grail-it-we-must-look-beyond-clouds\/"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:43:11","slug":"if-hybrid-is-the-holy-grail-of-it-we-must-look-beyond-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/if-hybrid-is-the-holy-grail-of-it-we-must-look-beyond-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"If hybrid is the Holy Grail of IT, we must look beyond the clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Paul Cragg, CTO, Easynet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Golf clubs, cars and IT rarely get talked about in the same sentence outside a board meeting, but surprisingly they have one thing in common: they all come in hybrid form. All combine different features to create a single, better product with improved performance. And all are created from designs based on technology innovation.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of argument, I&rsquo;m going to leave golf clubs and cars well alone so we can focus here on hybrid IT, which several surveys confirm to be &lsquo;the new normal&rsquo;. Hybrid IT, though, means different things to different organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Generally it refers to IT which integrates different clouds from different providers. It could be a private\/public cloud combination of a local server and a cloud service, which bring the benefits of private cloud without the prohibitive costs. &nbsp;Global analysts Gartner talk about it being &lsquo;a new mission &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Cragg, CTO, Easynet<br \/>\nGolf clubs, cars and IT rarely get talked about in the same sentence outside a board meeting, but surprisingly they have one thing in common: they all come in hybrid form. All combine different features to create a single, b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}