Introducing Hybrid Cloud

The word cloud has been commonplace in the industry and marketplace for over a decade. In its modern usage, it was first used in August of 2006, when Eric Schmidt of Google used it to describe an emergent new model (Source: Technology Review). However, now thanks to a, then, little-known company called Amazon Web Services (AWS), it has become immensely famous. 

Once the term cloud computing became a part of common IT parlance, there was no dearth of definitions. Almost everyone had something to sell, and added their own spin on the terminology. 

In this chapter, we will attempt to decipher this different terminology in relation to the definitions of the different clouds.

If you are wondering why this is important, it is to make and maintain the clarity of context in future chapters, as new concepts emerge and are commingled in the grand scheme of architecting the hybrid cloud.

In the remaining part of the chapter, we take a look at different definitions of the cloud and the different products used.