A hybrid cloud environment is a blend of public third-party cloud services and on-premises private datacenters. Private cloud is ideal for storing confidential data, and public cloud platforms are superiors because of the scale-out elasticity, cheaper costs, and modern tooling. In short, a hybrid cloud combines the benefits of public and private clouds.

Some large corporations are rigid regarding the shift from their traditional on-prem datacenters. They are aware of the benefits of the cloud but are unwilling to shift. However, they are unaware of the fact that a hybrid cloud approach gives them the flexibility to migrate at their own pace. Hybrid cloud provides flexibility and allows the organization to scale up to the public cloud or scale down to the private cloud.

Most key players in the market are attracted towards those propelling benefits of the hybrid cloud. Tech leaders are adopting the hybrid approach. Majority of the companies in the market are open to a hybrid cloud approach. Tech companies are acquiring other companies to expand their reach in the market. VMware announced the acquisition of Heptio and with the help of this acquisition; VMware can boost their position in Kubernetes. Talent is one of the key motivations for this acquisition. 

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According to IBM, 80 percent of business workloads are held back because of the proprietary nature of the cloud market. Therefore, open cloud solutions will help to unlock the full power of the cloud. Keeping this in mind, IBM acquired Red Hat. This acquisition will be mutually beneficial as IBM will get a stronger footing in open source Red Hat will be exposed to a bigger audience because of IBM.

Cisco partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Through this acquisition, their customers will be able to run Kubernetes on-premises. Customers are facilitated by building and using applications without worrying about where they run. All the acquisitions are taking place because a hybrid cloud is an ideal choice for enterprises. Organizations that are moving from private cloud to public cloud will slowly graduate to the hybrid cloud.

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