The Challenges of Building Hybrid Clouds

Building hybrid clouds is in its early stages, and normally requires gateways (e.g., cloud storage gateways) and translation software to connect radically different cloud environments. In this research, Wikibon is testing the premise that effective hybrid clouds will require much greater commonality and convergence of hardware and software within the hybrid cloud segments.
Wikibon recommends that IT senior management should work with vendors that offer hybrid cloud solutions with as much commonality of architecture and hardware/software components as possible.