{"id":8720,"date":"2013-08-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/aug\/27\/hybrid-clouds-from-reluctant-acceptance-to-strategic-imperative\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:00:00","slug":"hybrid-clouds-from-reluctant-acceptance-to-strategic-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hybrid-clouds-from-reluctant-acceptance-to-strategic-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid clouds: From reluctant acceptance to strategic imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been well over a year that Forrester&#8217;s James Staten (@staten7) has been gently orating from the rooftops that &#8220;you are already hybrid.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In his foresight, he was referring to the broad existence of so-called shadow-IT, the tendency of competent non-IT folk to pull out their credit cards and purchase public cloud services and SaaS services, thereby solving their own problems.<\/p>\n<p>This week, a spate of articles from Forbes, WSJ (requires login) and elsewhere are telling the tale of a far more intentional approach to hybrid cloud. <\/p>\n<p>This acceptance that certain workloads, for logistical, financial, or pragmatic reasons, are best housed locally &#8211; and that others, due to spikiness (technical term) or proximity to endpoint or resource profile, are best deployed to a service provider. <\/p>\n<p>Infact, the Forbes article cites different tiers of an application potentially residing at different places.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few implications of this current discussion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been well over a year that Forrester&#8217;s James Staten (@staten7) has been gently orating from the rooftops that &#8220;you are already hybrid.&#8221;&nbsp; In his foresight, he was referring to the broad existence of so-called shadow-IT, the tendency of compete&#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-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","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=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}