The enthusiasts advocate the use of a pure-play public cloud strategy. While this has some advantages, it also comes with its share of limitations and problems, which is offset by following a hybrid cloud strategy.
Before looking at the constraints, let's take a look at the major drivers leading to the adoption of a public cloud, which you must already be aware of:
- Need for agility in application development
- Ability to experiment without upfront costs
- Reducing operational overheads of ops teams
- Ability to consume enhanced services with little effort
Clearly, the public cloud is able to assist in all the previous points and more.
While at first glance, the following statement might seem odd and counter-intuitive, I would simply urge you to consider it. From time immemorial, agility has played a key role in determining a leader in a given market segment. It is just that in the traditional era, only the big enterprises could...