A recent Leverhawk column offers a primer on hybrid clouds and answers some of the basic questions. The article also explains how a hybrid cloud management platform works, and how the platform allows access to all of an enterprise’s clouds through the same interface.
A good hybrid management platform also allocates workloads to the correct cloud based on application and workload requirements: workloads that require high degrees of security go to the private cloud, for example, and those that are highly elastic typically use public cloud capacity, which is less expensive.