cloudbursting

Yousef Khalidi, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft helping to build the software giant's Azure cloud platform, had a cautious assessment of how enterprises are likely to view the cloud: He thinks corporate IT will want to keep its cloud under corporate control, and that as a result the creation of hybrid clouds - or "cloudbursting" - where certain jobs move from the internal servers to an external cloud, are going to be a preferred model.

Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

Yousef Khalidi, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft helping to build the software giant's Azure cloud platform, had a cautious assessment of how enterprises are likely to view the cloud: He thinks corporate IT will want to keep its cloud under corporate control, and that as a result the creation of hybrid clouds - or "cloudbursting" - where certain jobs move from the internal servers to an external cloud, are going to be a preferred model.

GigaOM 2009

However, there are many other use cases, such as cloudbursting to on-demand compute resources, business continuity scenarios, and data center migration.

Another Half-Dozen Half-Truths of the Cloud 2009

One reason hybrid clouds are proliferating is to enable "cloudbursting," or the ability to seamlessly and automatically grow workloads into public cloud resources for a period of time, and then decommission them once the heavy loads subside.

GigaOM Network 2010

However, there are many other use cases, such as cloudbursting to on-demand compute resources, business continuity scenarios, and data center migration.

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

They become the highly-available, multiprotocol aribters of access via standardized IPSec protocols but do so in a way that addresses the dynamic capabilities of the cloud which includes service governance, load, and "cloudbursting" failover between clouds -- in a transparent manner.

Rational Survivability 2008

By joining the VMware vCloud Initiative, Skytap will provide integration with the VMware virtualization platform to deliver seamless 'cloudbursting' capabilities to customers. "

Latest News from SOA World Magazine 2008

True, cloud services benefit from virtualization, and hybrid architectures that seamlessly integrate in-house capacity with cloud services will enable cloudbursting to reduce cost while enhancing flexibility.

6 Half-Truths About the Cloud 2009

Also, the ability to seamlessly cross public/private cloud boundaries based on real-time demand can create real business value via cloudbursting.

6 Half-Truths About the Cloud 2009

Like the cloudbursting scene, the clouds really do disperse yet he then hits the rock.

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