Digital Realty’s white paper on building a business-ready hybrid cloud outlines six essential steps for performance, scalability, and reliability. It emphasizes selecting the right cloud for each workload, ensuring direct and resilient connectivity to avoid public internet bottlenecks, and reducing latency by colocating near cloud gateways. The guide also stresses the need for elastic scalability to handle unexpected demand, continuous monitoring to maintain performance, and thoughtful workload placement—retaining some applications on-premises if needed for efficiency or compliance. These practices help businesses meet performance goals and maximize hybrid cloud investments.

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