Tech Briefing: The Emergence of Hybrid Cloud Computing

IT professionals have been talking about the release of Microsoft Azure Stack for quite some time. Previously, using cloud computing from big software giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google has raised concerns about storing sensitive customer information on systems available to the public. With Microsoft’s hybrid cloud computing platform Azure Stack, smaller companies that want to have privacy in storing data and having scalability of IaaS will soon have their perfect IT solution.  Basically, the software runs on Azure’s public cloud servers, but runs with a firewall that keeps the data private or rather it creates its own private cloud inside the data center.

At the Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft announced the product would soon be available to customers. This is significant because we will start to see small businesses and enterprises given more opportunities to grow and keep pace with the IT innovations from Microsoft and other big names. Small organizations that once were unable to store their customer’s data on clouds because of privacy and cost concerns will now have the security they were missing to compete.

This article applies to not just anyone who is looking for a career in database management or cloud developing, but MIS students in general. Keeping up with new cloud-computing trends is important to understand how technology will shape the future of the professional world we will be soon be a part of.

The Article: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3226742/cloud-computing/at-ignite-microsoft-extends-hybrid-cloud-beyond-just-infrastructure.html

Some questions that this article raises:

1. How will this change B2B relationships from licensed parties to Microsoft?

2. Will Microsoft take more share of the market for data centers?

3. What are other companies doing in response to hybrid cloud computing?