Rackspace's whitepaper, "The Incremental Advantage," outlines a strategic approach for IT architects tasked with migrating traditional applications from on-premises VMware environments to a hybrid cloud. This document details a five-step process, offering insights into achieving cloud-bursting capabilities and significant cost savings inherent in a public cloud model while maintaining the control of dedicated environments. It addresses critical considerations like optimizing back-end database hosting, suggesting methods for seamless integration of VMware with dedicated servers and utilizing bare-metal architectures for high-performance needs, thereby reducing overhead and latency. The paper emphasizes a pragmatic, application-dependent path to hybrid cloud adoption, ensuring efficient reso

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