This model of cloud combines the features of both private and public cloud, or you can say it integrates the public cloud and the on-premise hosted cloud. For example, suppose we have an internally deployed OpenStack cloud platform and now we want it to integrate with any of the public clouds. For this, there are multiple tools available that enable you to integrate both clouds and also facilitate you to lift and shift the workload to and fro. Recently, Cisco came up with a product called Cisco CloudCenter (formerly known as CliQr) providing the same facility.
On the basis of service, we categorize clouds into three parts, which we call the SPI model.
In the SPI model, S represents Software as a Service, P represents Platform ...
