hour in the day. Again, this goes to how you
approach the management of workloads within
the hybrid cloud.
• Where do the workloads run? On the public
cloud, private cloud, or in both places?
• Why were the decisions made about where to
run the workload? And when may they need to
be re-evaluated?
2. Understand security and governance
These days, security and governance are a require-
ment, whether a mandate from your customers (see
“SLAs” below) or from your senior management. This
means you need to proactively manage security to
make it work. You can also leverage new mechanisms
such as IAM (identity and access management), which
allow assigning of identities to data, people, devices,
and servers, to configure who can access what, and
when. Finally, information needs to be encrypted
at-rest in some cases, and in-flight in others.
Core to this part of hybrid cloud management is how
you deal with a few issues:
• Security and performance. If the needs of the
workload are that information be encrypted
at-rest (on the storage systems in the private or
public cloud), or in-flight (moving over the net-
work), that may result in the risk of lower over-
all performance. That needs to be understood
and managed, including the use of performance
monitoring tools.
• Policy management. Governance requires that
policies are written and enforced, and this
enforcement needs to be understood by those
who are managing the hybrid cloud so that they
do not conflict or otherwise get in the way