Today, the virtualization world faces many challenges in trying to respond to rapidly growing and ever-changing business environments on very limited budgets, requirements to support legacy applications, as well as new contemporary cloud applications and big data systems. An organization won't have enough money to start over and build applications for the cloud from scratch; to mitigate this particular problem, cloud computing provides an important solution in terms of quickness and cost efficiency. We can easily end up with workloads that can only run on premises and off premises (public cloud). Once you have chosen to move a workload to an exclusive cloud, you'll typically need to rewrite the application's source and reconfigure your infrastructure to move between public and private clouds.

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