Charles Babcock recently wrote an article entitled, “Hybrid Clouds Floating to Enterprise Forefront” which ran in InformationWeek.  He attended the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, where speakers raised the prospect of private clouds working with public clouds, creating hybrid clouds.

The hybrid cloud is not a term we’ve never seen or heard before.  However, it seems in his article that there aren’t many providers out there actually doing the hybrid cloud approach with their clients.  But Engine Networks is. For over two years Engine Networks has offered a private cloud solution in conjunction with our public cloud hosting solution.  Our clients’ ability to have their own internal cloud which has the capability to spill over and utilize our public cloud when necessary has proved itself very valuable.  So yes, Mr. Babcock and the Expo speakers, the hybrid cloud computing approach is going to continue to gain traction.

For those companies who are fearful of “losing control” in the cloud, the private cloud approach is extremely beneficial because those companies are able to gain access to the benefits of cloud computing while still controlling their own infrastructure in house.  So not only is the private cloud a good starting point, but with the right cloud technology (like Engine Networks’s), it doesn’t have to be the end of their cloud strategy.

Learn more about Engine Networks’s private cloud solution or contact a sales rep.

Read the original InformationWeek article.

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