Red Hat redefines hybrid cloud
While other vendors are interchangeably referring to multicloud and hybrid cloud as any combination of cloud resources, Red Hat has envisioned what cloud computing should become, calling this ideal cloud environment 'hybrid cloud'. According to Red Hat, hybrid cloud makes use of virtual resources that exist physically in public and private cloud environments. These resources are orchestrated by management and automation software that allows users to access them seamlessly and on-demand. In effect, it is a single platform. In contrast, multicloud is defined as workloads scattered across various cloud platforms, without the management and automation orchestration. Damien Wong, VP and GM, Asian Growth & Emerging Markets (GEMs), Red Hat, observed that going multicloud is the only way businesses can deliver rapid, scalable apps today. "It's not if you move to cloud-native but a question of how fast you’ll move to cloud-native," he predicted. Key characteris...