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Why Finding The Right Load Balancing Solution Is Crucial

For Hybrid Cloud

By Jason Dover, VP of Product Strategy at Progress

In today’s competitive landscape, every business seeks to find ways to carve advantages that give them
a small edge over their counterparts. The large number of new digital and web 2.0 entrants into just about
every industry is one of the key drivers that’s made this more important than ever. Out of this operating
environment have emerged the concepts of digital transformation and business agility, where enterprises
seek to use IT as a revenue generator and differentiator as opposed to simply being a necessary utility.
This environment has proven to be the perfect incubation ecosystem for cloud adoption.

Drivers for Hybrid Cloud

While many approaches and patterns for cloud usage exist, the most common is hybrid cloud. By
definition, a hybrid cloud includes at least one private cloud ecosystem along with one or more public
cloud environments that are managed using unified models, tooling and playbooks. The primary benefits
of this model are agility and the ability to provide the best platform for given applications and services
while minimizing swivel chair management.

Despite these benefits, not every workload should be deployed in a public cloud. On the other hand, other
services and applications are much more efficient when coupled with the just-in-time deployment options
and horizontal scale options that a public cloud natively facilitates. In order to be efficient, the additional

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