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Nervous about cloud? Go hybrid instead

Customer-dedicated servers and public cloud infrastructure run in parallel

Published October 2013

Hybrid hosting refers to the combination of customer-dedicated servers and public cloud infrastructure used in parallel to meet a hosting objective. Hybrid hosting can provide the security features, performance, and customization of dedicated hardware along with the cost savings, utility, and bursting aspects that cloud technology offers. How best to leverage this technology combination will be dictated by your business rules, industry/regulatory requirements, application capabilities, and budget, among other things. This paper offers an introduction to the concept of hybrid hosting, provides illustrative use case examples, and ends with five questions to consider before making technical changes.