<p>Modern hybrid cloud frameworks extend public cloud services into private infrastructure. While these capabilities make building a <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/definition/hybrid-cloud”>hybrid cloud</a> easier, the bigger challenge is assembling a tool set that enables effective management of hybrid cloud infrastructure and workloads over the long term — specifically, by helping to streamline tasks such as hybrid cloud administration, performance optimization, cost management and security.</p>
<p>Correct tools are essential, especially as hybrid cloud becomes the default deployment model. According to VMware’s “Private Cloud Outlook 2025: The Cloud Reset” <a href=”https://www.vmware.com/docs/private-cloud-outlook-2025″>report</a>, 92% of enterprises run a blend of private and public clouds. Additionally, 75% of respondents said this blended approach is an intentional strategy, which suggests that organizations value the flexibility of a hybrid cloud environment to meet specific use cases.</p>
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<h2 class=”section-title”><i class=”icon” data-icon=”1″></i>Why hybrid cloud management matters</h2>
<p>In recent years, <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/definition/public-cloud”>public cloud</a> vendors have rolled out a new generation of frameworks for hybrid cloud creation — most notably, Azure Stack Hub and HCI, Azure Arc, AWS Outposts and Google Cloud Anthos. At the same time, more conventional hybrid cloud management platforms, such as VMware Cloud Foundation and Cisco Intersight, continue to thrive. In addition, Kubernetes can be useful as a platform for hybrid cloud management, especially for organizations that use Kubernetes services, like Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere, to manage workloads deployed on private infrastructure using Amazon’s managed Kubernetes service.</p>
<p>These platforms provide a centralized way to deploy and administer workloads across a cloud environment that mixes private infrastructure with public cloud resources. Integration between these entities is a significant improvement over earlier hybrid cloud architectures, which more closely resembled a <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/definition/private-cloud”>private cloud</a> and a public cloud running side by side. Modern tooling has made creating a hybrid cloud environment easier than ever.</p>
<p>Yet, hybrid cloud management remains a major challenge, and the platforms and frameworks mentioned above don’t fully solve it. They simplify and centralize the deployment of public cloud services on private infrastructure, but they don’t always address hybrid cloud management requirements, such as workload provisioning, log aggregation and analysis, and governance enforcement. These tasks often require additional functionality beyond what’s available in hybrid cloud frameworks.</p>
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<h3>The importance of visibility in hybrid cloud</h3>
<p>Hybrid clouds are, by their nature, especially complex and not fully centralized. Because they mix private and public cloud infrastructure and services, they make it harder to centralize monitoring and management than would be the case with a cloud environment that includes only private or only public resources.</p>
<p>Hybrid cloud management demands an especially deep level of visibility. Visibility ensures that organizations have an accurate, continuously updated understanding of the status of all their cloud infrastructure and workloads, including both the private and public cloud components.</p>
<p>The lack of effective hybrid cloud visibility can create challenges, such as the following:</p>
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<li>Service disruptions resulting from failure to detect outages or performance anomalies across the various workloads hosted within a hybrid cloud.</li>
<li>The inability to predict or optimize cloud spending due to poor visibility into the costs of both the private and public cloud infrastructure.</li>
<li>Security risks, which could arise due to inconsistent access controls and governance policies across the private and public parts of the cloud environment.</li>
<li>Difficulty modernizing or migrating hybrid cloud workloads because of a lack of understanding of where each workload resi
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