Hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud is a combination of the private and public cloud infrastructures, as shown in the following figure:

Hybrid cloud

Many companies are choosing to keep a private cloud as the main infrastructure for security and performance reasons, while extending that into the public cloud using CloudBridge so that they have some sense of disaster recovery, failover, and extra capacity when they have a burst of data.

As an example, to implement a VDI solution in the cloud, it is possible to rent physical equipment from a colocation or COLO facility or directly from a cloud provider, such as SoftLayer or Rackspace. It is then possible to install XenServer ...

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