Over the last few years, technology has evolved through an acceleration of innovation across industries, bringing forth new combinations of technologies, new use cases and new business models. Technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, machine learning and big data have combined to solve business challenges that plagued industries for decades.

What is a hybrid cloud?

According to IBM, a hybrid cloud is infrastructure that connects at least one public cloud and at least one private cloud, but the definition can vary.[i] A hybrid cloud provides orchestration, management, and application portability between public and private clouds to create a single, flexible, optimal cloud infrastructure for running a company's computing workloads.

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