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Chapter 3

What Is an Enterprise
Cloud?
In This Chapter
▶ Discovering the components that define the enterprise cloud
▶ Understanding how public cloud characteristics are associated with

your enterprise cloud environment

▶ Finding out how traditional infrastructure can fail to meet modern

application needs

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ow that you know a bit about why an enterprise cloud
is important, I’d like to chat a bit about what an enterprise cloud actually is. In this chapter, you find out about the
five critical characteristics that define an enterprise cloud
and discover how each of these characteristics is vital to your
enterprise cloud journey.
I also spend a bit of time discussing security, an increasingly
important consideration for all organizations large and small.

Defining the Enterprise Cloud
Chapter 2 shows that the enterprise cloud is a collection of
characteristics of the public and private cloud. The beauty of
the enterprise cloud is that it infuses an organization with an
infrastructure that is flexible and agile, and provides complete
choice of where to run workloads.

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