Switchfast Blog – The Future of IT: Will 2010 Bring “Hybrid Clouds”?
“With the battle between on-premise and off-premise infrastructures raging on, many companies have chosen a side and dug in. However, as cloud computing becomes the more popular trend, traditional private resources may have to give in to some sort of off-premise framework.
Given the trend toward cloud computing, the birth of “hybrid clouds” may take over the infrastructure sky, so to say. Corporations have considered this move for reasons ranging from financial to flexibility to control or data security. Although many view the cloud as a good opportunity for a range of management, “corporations have longstanding cultural biases toward keeping core IT assets in-house that are unlikely to change anytime soon,” according to Gary Orenstein.”