INTRODUCTION

Over the past few years, the hype in computing has all been about cloud, an approach that enables access to hosted technology resources and applications. Most cloud implementations are public, offering services across the Internet. There also have been adoptions of private cloud, which is deployed on-premise within an organization’s own infrastructure and data centers. Hybrid cloud is a mix of private and public cloud, integrating the best of each for a unified management experience across both platforms, and allowing movement of workloads across private and public cloud to provide businesses with increased flexibility and data deployment options.

Microsoft’s implementation of hybrid cloud, Azure Stack, implements a hybrid solution ...

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