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THE HYBRID CLOUD

It may seem unlikely to some observers that this will ever come
to pass, but behind the vision for a private cloud is the tanta-
lizing prospect that it might one day be coordinated with the
public cloud. Those big data centers on the Internet could be
used as backup for and absorbers of the peak workloads of the
traditional data center.
If this did come about, the relationship between the public

and the private cloud would be focused on managing the spikes
in demand that occur in every business: accounting’s close of
a quarter; the launch of a new product; the onslaught of cus-
tomers during the holiday shopping season. For much of the
year, a company’s computers have a predictable load that runs
far below these peaks. But since they know that the spike is
coming, computer professionals have learned to oversupply

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