Free Report Summary and Podcast: Creating the Hybrid Cloud, 2012

As states and localities seek to save money, they are implementing cloud options with hybrid characteristics that meet specific public sector needs for security and ownership. Creating the Hybrid Cloud report details the emerging implementation trends as buyers and sellers search for a comfort zone for early cloud adoption.

Hype surrounding the cloud has been building steadily over the past 3-4 years and is now at massive levels.

This report examines the key drivers behind the 'hybrid' cloud as a transitional consumption phase toward more robust cloud uptake:

• Formal and informal hybrid cloud definitions and deployment models
• Characteristics of actual hybrid cloud acquisitions
• High profile and indicative hybrid cloud opportunities and implementation in the state and local market