Advantages & Disadvantages of Deploying a Hybrid Cloud

Deploying a hybrid cloud as a part of the IT infrastructure is a great step towards making your business a future-proof success story.

What are the benefits and disadvantages of deploying a hybrid cloud?

In today's business sphere, using cloud environments has become the norm. With newer features and functionalities of cloud environments coming into this market, organizations are provided higher chances for the environment to lead them to success.

There are three main cloud deployment options (shared, public & private); however, only the hybrid cloud infrastructure provides one such platform that combines it all.

What is Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure?

In simple terms, a Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing strategy where users combine different cloud environments that are interconnected. These cloud environments can be public or private clouds or simply virtualized infrastructures.

Hybrid clouds are designed to operate independently and all data shared across the communication channels are highly encrypted. This article discusses how a Hybrid Cloud Strategy can benefit your organization and the shortcomings it can face. So without further ado, let's delve in.

Advantages of a Hybrid Cloud

One may identify various benefits for deploying a Hybrid Cloud within their respective organization; here are some of the leading benefits.

• With a hybrid cloud, the organization's workload is contained within a private cloud while retaining the ability to spontaneously increase their workload and perform the spikes of usage on the public cloud.
• Hybrid cloud has the benefit of being cost-effective as organizations pay for the public cloud portion of their infrastructure only when it is needed.
• With a hybrid cloud, the organization's workloads get on-premise computational efficiency which ensures maximum workload management.
• You also get highly scalable and flexible designed servers that you can use for yourself and even offer it to a number of individuals so they can also make use of it.
• One of the leading benefits of a hybrid cloud is that you get a centralized private infrastructure on-premises.

Disadvantages of a Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud may have a high number of advantages and although it's one of the most stable cloud environments, it can still portray a few challenges. These challenges should not be left unattended.

Therefore, let's shed some light on a few disadvantages that organizations can face while using the Hybrid cloud environment:

• Although the long-term cost savings are one of the many benefits, the initial deploying cost of a hybrid cloud can be high compared to the setup cost incurred in the case of a public cloud. While creating a hybrid cloud environment, specific hardware is required to deploy on-premises, and that constitutes a large chunk of the budget.
• Hybrid clouds are indeed secure. But it is necessary that precautionary steps are taken by expert IT specialists to ensure the maximum security of data. Some organizations don't prefer to store data at an off-site location, and that will evidently make the hybrid cloud environment inaccessible to public clouds.
• If not picked correctly, cloud compatibility can become a real nuisance for Hybrid Cloud environments. A fast-performing on-premise infrastructure may not be able to successfully perform in coherence with a slow-performing public infrastructure resulting in a sluggish performance of the Hybrid Cloud.
  While these concerns are important to address, if catered in controlled environments, utilizing appropriate experts, and resources, a hybrid cloud can become a total win for your organization.

Future Proof Your Business! Move to Hybrid Cloud

Including the hybrid cloud strategy as a part of the IT infrastructure is a great step towards making your business a future-proof success story. One of the leading reasons for introducing a hybrid cloud environment within your organization is that it provides you with the liberty to use cloud resources and test new capabilities in-house in a more performance-oriented environment. Also, a Hybrid cloud saves you the hassles of making high investments up-front.

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