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OVERCOMING

RESISTANCE

TO THE CLOUD

It sounds simple. Corporate data centers will align themselves
with the public cloud and realize heretofore unattainable
economies of scale from this new and accessible form of In-
ternet computing. But it’s not that simple. There are too many
vested interests that are ready to place obstacles in the path

of a smooth and common-standards-based migration to the
cloud and between clouds.
If hybrid cloud computing is to become the data center of
the future, as we concluded that it would in Chapter 5, it will
be necessary for computer operations managers to be able to
move workloads freely between their corporate data centers
and a public cloud.

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