cloud journey must include preparation for simultaneously supporting a cloud
infrastructure and a legacy infrastructure. This requires conscious decisions
about the level of integration vs. isolation that will be achieved between the
data center side and the cloud side.
For many organizations, it may be tempting to simply graft a separate cloud
environment alongside their traditional data centers, so as to minimize disrup-
tion of the existing internal operations and the introductions of new tools into
existing environments. However, this path leads to increasing complexity, as
more and more functions have to be simultaneously performed in multiple
environments. So while hybrid cloud architectures vary, it is a best practice to
anticipate the need to develop and deploy integrated platforms and architec-
tures wherever practical.
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