A peek into the future of hybrid cloud in 2016

Over the years, I've learned that predicting什么will happen in emerging technologies is much easier than predictingwhenit will happen. Case in point: hybrid clouds. Many of us in the cloud community predicted in 2009 that cloudbursting would be the impetus for an explosion in public cloud consumption; and I went so far as picking 2010 as the beginning of the transition.

Well, my prediction was sound in direction but way off the mark in timing. Since 2009, I've learned that the barriers to hybrid cloud are more numerous than originally anticipated -- something I'll address in greater depth in a future post. However, seeing mass adoption on the horizon in 2016 (I'm crossing my fingers this time), it's important to move the conversation forward by providing some introspection on where the hybrid cloud is today.

How quickly are enterprises moving to hybrid cloud solutions?

利息和消费也开始迅速提升。公司已经意识到，有私有云，这往往是没有什么比质量更虚拟化，云和公共云比他们带领相信之间存在较大的差异。这就是为什么这么多的私有云的实现无法实现其目标的原因;这么多，事实上，它已经成为会议和博客的主食话题。其结果是，IT领导者通过采用混合云使得在公共云的方向快速移动。私有和公共云的结合，使IT帮助企业创新和迭代以更低的成本更快所需的工具。

是否满意企业一旦他们得到的混合云？

很少有公司认为，他们在那里还，所以承诺超过了实现;但是天秤的倾斜。使用私有云或公共云是容易的;然而，混合他们提供服务是相当具有挑战性的。应用，集成和数据架构需要重新审查，有时调整了，而其他次大修。部署，监控和管理的新工具是必需的。此外，IT团队必须更加紧密地发展新的技能进行合作。具有较强的DevOps团队的组织已经超越了许多的这些障碍，从而平滑其混合云的过渡路径。然而，这仍然是例外，而不是规则。除了技术堆栈，仍然有惨痛的教训符合，运营支持和财务管理的教训。

What are the top benefits that the best hybrid cloud infrastructures are delivering?

如今，混合云清单本身主要作为较低成本和较高速度的好处;然而，如果没有供应和去供应周期的适当管理，成本公式可以迅速上下颠倒。因为它缩短时限，并扩大可能性的正确配置混合云解决方案改变了IT与业务之间的对话。

What's next beyond today's hybrid clouds?

Hybrid clouds represent an important step in the transition of IT from technology manager to solution provider. Deploying hybrid cloud solutions will help companies become comfortable with public cloud security, operations, and financial management. Although there will be challenges and hurdles, over the next five years companies will seek to offload as much of their technology stack as possible to the public cloud, driven not only by the economic benefits and shared resources, but also the freedom to choose among multiple vendors on their terms. Cloud-dependent technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), real-time analytics, and collaboration, will continue to evolve the end-customer relationship, which in turn will require public cloud solutions to meet scale and time-to-market-challenges. As private data centers give way to the public cloud, public cloud itself will transform from a regional to a local focus.

部署是混合云next step beyond private clouds in the evolution of cloud computing. The stakes are high, as those who figure it out first will gain a significant advantage in agility, efficiency, and elasticity unshared by their market rivals. Now is the time to start plotting the path to the future and to move up the cloud learning curve.