Public And Private Hybrid Clouds: The Pros And Cons

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Leading Cloud Migration Vendors

Some leading vendors to look at in your migration include:

  • Skytap.com can set up an entire hosted virtual network of various servers, all via a Web browser.
  • Vyatta.com has virtual firewalls and other network infrastructure gear to help secure the hybrid configuration.
  • Cloudswitch.com sells a virtual appliance that can be used to move any virtual machine into either Amazon or Terremark (the service used by Verizon's CaaS) clouds.
  • VMware offers a variety of cloud management tools, including vCloud Director and vFabrik that can help create a virtual datacenter and set up pre-configured app services and infrastructure. Use their partner locator here to find a reseller nearby.
  • Appistry.com has its CloudIQ servers that are easy to scale up or down.
  • GoGrid.com, Rackspace.com and Cari.net are just a few of many hosting providers out there that can specifically help with hybrid management.

Appistry has its CloudIQ servers to help you scale up or down and deploy your applications across a hybrid cloud.
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David Strom

David Strom is the former editor-in-chief at Tom's Hardware and the founding editor-in-chief of Network Computing magazine. He has written thousands of articles for dozens of technical publications and websites, and written two books on computer networking.