hybrid cloud
Buy or Build? To buy or to build? That is the question. Mark Baker, field product manager at Canonical, is here to help un-muddy the waters.
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usinesses today are constantly trying to keep the innovation tap flowing. Factors such as rapidly changing competitive landscapes and developing consumer demands mean those firms that fail to innovate are likely to fall behind. To stop this from happening, businesses in all industries are turning to cloud computing technologies and most are now realising that a hybrid – or multi-cloud – approach is the best way forward.
26 | December 2017
A hybrid cloud strategy effectively gives organisations the ability to rapidly develop and launch new applications, adopt agile ways of working and run workloads in whichever way best meets their specific needs. For example, workloads that aren’t business-critical can be deployed externally, while those that hold sensitive customer data can continue to be run in-house in order to meet compliance requirements – an issue especially relevant for organisations in highly regulated sectors such as
telecommunications, healthcare and financial services. A hybrid cloud strategy also gives businesses the option to move workloads between environments based on cost or capacity requirements and application portability means they are not locked into one platform. However, not all firms are embracing third party providers. The desire to innovate as fast as possible means that, when it comes to the decision of going with a public and private cloud, many businesses are building