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Hybrid cloud: What it is, why it matters [1]
As organizations attempt to strike a balance between having all IT services on premises and offloading storage and compute to the cloud, a logical middle ground has emerged: the hybrid cloud.
In 2013[3] and 2014[4], I discussed the "Game of Services" and how, like the epic fantasy HBO series Game of Thrones [5]has played out over multiple seasons, there were distinct chapters in the evolution of the consumer cloud.
To recap: The evolution of the consumer cloud has been tied to the services that the major industry players[6] -- Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon -- are hosting on them and how they differentiate from each other.
The first chapter of Game of Services was about the mobile OS platforms, and which would be left standing. We now know who won this: Apple and Google.
The second chapter was all about the services themselves, what the houses had to offer in terms of cloud storage, apps, messaging, and music/video/books content, and how those would continue to evolve.
Also: Watch out MongoDB: AWS launches fully-managed document database service [7]
The third chapter was about the battle over the API access to those public consumer cloud services. Google and Facebook, for the most part, are still the most important consumer clouds and access to those APIs are a constant moving target.
What's the fourth chapter? The evolution of the enterprise/commercial cloud. We