After taking to the cloud, businesses are embracing a hybrid version of the big corporate IT trend. Hybrid cloud computing enables businesses to use combinations of both public cloud platforms and their own in-house data centers. Even AWS, the cloud's dominant player, has acknowledged the importance of on-premise data centers, and made preliminary moves to support them. After outpacing enterprise players like Microsoft and IBM in the cloud, Amazon faces a tougher challenge in hybrid cloud.
After taking to the cloud, businesses are embracing a hybrid version of the big corporate IT trend. Hybrid cloud computing enables businesses to use combinations of both public cloud platforms and their own in-house data centers. Even AWS, the cloud's dominant player, has acknowledged the importance of on-premise data centers, and made preliminary moves to support them. After outpacing enterprise players like Microsoft and IBM in the cloud, Amazon faces a tougher challenge in hybrid cloud.