There's no shortage of debate about the meanings we attach to "public" versus "private" clouds, and the one that falls in between, the "hybrid cloud."
Just a couple of months back, in fact, we had a rollicking debate here on the ebizQ site about the difference between public and private clouds. Some commentators insisted that private clouds weren't even really clouds at all, since they were not available outside the walls of the enterprise.
In a new post, Lori MacVittie takes the idea of "hybrid" to task, observing that hybrid cloud isn't as neat and tidy as proponents are making it sound. Hybrid cloud -- just as SOA -- requires integration work, and lots more of it.
"Instead of simply integrating applications -- something with which IT is well versed these days -- we are shifting our focus toward integrating infrastructure -- something with which IT is not so well versed."
But there's a lot we can learn from SOA, Lori adds. "But like its application predecessors, a successful integration strategy must be able to incorporate on-premise, off-premise and legacy systems to enable consistent processes and management of resources across the entire infrastructure."
So, integration specialists, your jobs are secure for a long time to come.
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