A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud
I&#x27;ve been giving this some thought because well who doesn&#x27;t want to glue together cloud-y things.<p>The only version I can see is one that runs on generic nix. i.e. Spin up a VM on each cloud (and in house) and run a stack on that which software glues it together. Redundancy of sorts.<p>...however if that glue actually works I might as well do that with 20 sht tier providers and let the redundancy cover gloss over it. No competitive advantage for cloud providers - and each of the cloud&#x27;s various competitive advantages are by definition not hybrid-able easily.<p>Scaling? You&#x27;re now dealing with multiple cloud&#x27;s worth of different approaches to scaling. Good luck scaling that hybrid style in a resilient way.<p>...and all of this is <i>just</i> VMs. Add the 50 other offerings the average cloud has  all with different scaling, quirks and  the hybrid dream is deader than dead.