When designing your hybrid cloud, you will need to tailor your IT infrastructure and hardware for the specific demands of your workloads in order to avoid wasted resources, performance problems, or improper capacity allocation. You also have to consider personnel requirements for proper management and maintenance of the system. A truly hybrid IT infrastructure provides enterprise-class hardware that you can be self-managed or fully-managed from a cloud hosting provider. Your current hardware, performance requirements, network configuration characteristics, and access to domain experts in storage, networking, and virtualization will dictate the proper mix when building the right hybrid cloud solution for your enterprise. You will also need to factor in different costs of cloud resource usage when planning to execute a hybrid cloud strategy.
There will be different security or varying levels of compliance requirements for different workloads that may have an influence on your IT infrastructure hosting environment. Take into consideration necessary security measures when building a hybrid cloud so that your data is properly protected and you have proper data control.
With dual infrastructure for hybrid cloud solutions, you need to ensure compatibility across both private and public infrastructure. There also has to be a symbiotic relationship between data and application integration, as each one is useless without the other. When building your hybrid cloud structure, do consider the infrastructure to store each of your applications on. If your application cannot access the data remotely, you may need to use technologies such as copy data virtualization to decouple data from infrastructure.
