By Marten Terpstra – This typically means achieving much more with less, as fast and inexpensively as possible.

Over the past several years, enterprises sought to achieve these goals by moving workloads to the public cloud. This move provided compute and data agility, allowing the enterprise to flex resources instantly in response to changing business needs.

While the cloud consumption model continues to offer considerable benefits, enterprises are realizing that certain applications are better hosted on-premises in a private cloud due to security, regulatory, cost, and performance issues. A hybrid cloud experience is now extremely popular, giving the enterprise the advantage of different deployment options based on specific needs of a workload. The hybrid cloud strategy offers clear benefits over traditional IT, delivering the agility and flexibility enterprises need to be competitive.

For the enterprise building out their hybrid cloud infrastructure, many deployment approaches are available. When considering which is best, the enterprise should consider the following key trends

Both the edge and cloud computing are experiencing explosive growth, causing the build-out of new data centers. This growth is so rapid that traditional approaches to building and managing compute, storage, and networking infrastructure is no longer sufficient. Read On: