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Hybrid Cloud for Architects

By : Alok Shrivastwa
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Hybrid Cloud for Architects

By: Alok Shrivastwa

Overview of this book

Hybrid cloud is currently the buzz word in the cloud world. Organizations are planning to adopt hybrid cloud strategy due to its advantages such as untested workloads, cloud-bursting, cloud service brokering and so on. This book will help you understand the dynamics, design principles, and deployment strategies of a Hybrid Cloud. You will start by understanding the concepts of hybrid cloud and the problems it solves as compared to a stand-alone public and private cloud. You will be delving into the different architecture and design of hybrid cloud. The book will then cover advanced concepts such as building a deployment pipeline, containerization strategy, and data storage mechanism. Next up, you will be able to deploy an external CMP to run a Hybrid cloud and integrate it with your OpenStack and AWS environments. You will also understand the strategy for designing a Hybrid Cloud using containerization and work with pre-built solutions like vCloud Air, VMware for AWS, and Azure Stack. Finally, the book will cover security and monitoring related best practices that will help you secure your cloud infrastructure. By the end of the book, you will be in a position to build a hybrid cloud strategy for your organization.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Software Hardware List
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

What does the world say? 


Surely, the preceding statements are common sense, but what does the world say about them? In order to find out, let's take a look at a survey taken by RightScale in their State of the Cloud report in 2017. 

The survey was conducted with over 1000 people working in several industry segments and size of companies, and the survey yielded the following (among other things): 

The inferences from the preceding survey are:

  • Almost every one (95%) is using the cloud in some form
  • Only 5% of the people are using private cloud only 
  • Only 22% of the people are using public cloud only
  • 67% of the people are using hybrid cloud (combination of public and private)

Note

The RightScale is a cloud provider and so the report may be a little biased. However, you can read the full report from RightScale by downloading it from their website at: https://www.rightscale.com/lp/2017-state-of-the-cloud-report

If we compare this with the survey from last year, the number has slightly reduced owing to...