While AI is taking the world by storm, the gold at the end of the rainbow for many CIOs follows digital transformation initiatives that lower operational costs and transition legacy systems to virtual environments on private and public clouds.
Consumer websites and development environments run applications in privately controlled data centers and take advantage of the compute, network and storage resources of public cloud service providers (CSPs), better known as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. Attracted by the flexibility and cost savings, businesses use this “cloud burst” pay-as-you-go model for high-volume data processing, load balancing and redundancy, avoiding downtime during peak demand, such as a holiday selling period.
But, for many organizations, connecting private and public clouds over the internet using a dedicated network connection isn’t that simple. Business transitions, incompatible technology environments and rapid changes in dynamic public cloud services can cause hybrid cloud security challenges.
Single hybrid cloud is now multiple clouds, said Mark Buckwell, executive cloud security architect at IBM, during last April’s RSA Conference. It’s not…
