At Cisco Live 2023 in June, Liz Centoni, chief strategy officer and general manager of applications at Cisco, proclaimed hybrid cloud and multicloud the best approach for institutions operating today. But just what do IT leaders mean when they refer to hybrid cloud and why are they singing its praises?
Many leading IT companies define hybrid cloud similarly. “Hybrid cloud integrates public cloud services, private cloud services and on-premises infrastructure, and provides orchestration, management and application portability across all three,” IBM notes on its company website, adding that “…