A hybrid cloud is flexible and customizable, allowing managers to pick and choose elements of either a public or private cloud. The biggest advantage of the hybrid-cloud approach is the ability to do “cloud bursting.” A business running an application on premises may experience a spike in data volume during a given time of month or year. With a hybrid cloud, it can “burst” to the public cloud to access more capacity when needed without purchasing extra capacity that would normally sit unused.

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