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The rise of cloud computing is a boon for a variety of industries. Because of the public cloud advantages of hybrid clouds, and it also enables enterprise users to take full advantage of the additional security and control of on-premises private clouds, enterprises of all sizes began to adopt hybrid cloud solutions for their storage applications and workloads in 2015.

But the deployment of the hybrid cloud is not smooth, and the road to the hybrid cloud is fraught with thorns. The migration of data and workloads is complex and difficult, and not all workloads have interoperability from one cloud service provider to another. Identifying and addressing these hybrid cloud challenges is key to maintaining an efficient cloud environment.

Scalability, application flexibility, and resource management constraints

When enterprise users use public cloud composition for hybrid cloud creation, their scalability, application flexibility, and resource management are limited by initial hybrid cloud implementations such as application migration, management, and API support. In the process of creation, a slight error will have a great negative impact on the deployment of the hybrid cloud, and the cloud operating environment of the enterprise will become inefficient.

Overall planning is essential before deploying a hybrid cloud. Before managers actually begin to deploy the hybrid cloud and determine the right workload to migrate by implementing the cost-effectiveness of the hybrid cloud, they should develop an appropriate and thorough plan. Industry insiders believe: "it is particularly important to design a plan for how applications will run in a hybrid cloud architecture, with countless factors to consider, such as load balancing, Ihop O requirements, IP address allocation, and so on."

Migration of data or workloads between different clouds

Native tools for hybrid cloud migration still have some functional limitations, especially when they are used for complex, multi-tiered application migration between different clouds. Although some cloud service providers have made a lot of efforts to improve local tools, there is still a lack of a healthy third-party migration tool market that provides enterprise users with more options to migrate data and applications between cloud services. Some forward-looking vendors are solving migration issues and informing administrators which data and workloads can be migrated more smoothly, but there is no tool that is generally suitable for all enterprises.

How to ensure data security after migration

After the hybrid cloud deployment is completed, it is not a cause for celebration, and the follow-up work is even more challenging. Successfully running a hybrid cloud means ensuring that the data that the enterprise runs in both public and private clouds is secure. Each cloud service provider has different characteristics and concepts in terms of security. Apart from the interference of network broadband problems, when migrating data between internally deployed cloud platforms and public clouds, fundamental networking differences between two different enterprises can further put workflows into trouble.

At that time, there will be a flexible IT team that is constantly committed to integrating all the technologies and services that can be used to improve the overall strength of the enterprise, but it will also be quite difficult.

The combination of Container Technology and Hybrid Cloud

For many enterprise users, the emergence of hybrid clouds can help them avoid being beholden to a particular vendor, provide more secure computing solutions, and reduce the cost of cloud computing. The advantages of hybrid clouds will slowly emerge in the future, while more and more tools will emerge to solve the challenges of hybrid cloud environments, such as Docker.

Because of its portability between different infrastructures, Docker, which is still in its infancy, has the possibility of becoming a hybrid cloud tool. But the combination of container technology and hybrid cloud does not happen overnight, and it still needs to be studied by the elites in the IT industry.

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