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run constantly, such as an online commerce site or a control system that manages a critical environmental process. Business services and various application models are added into the mix as well. 

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In a hybrid cloud environment, your workloads may be running on different clouds, and running different kinds of infrastructure using different operating systems. You’re bringing together workloads from different environments that often have to behave as though they’re a unified system. 

Now you may think that all you have to do in a hybrid cloud environment is to get some automation software to automatically schedule resources and to perform some other functions associated with allocating resources and you’re done. However, do consider some issues when thinking about how to create a hybrid cloud environment that both performs at a quality level and meets security and governance requirements. 

For example, say a workload is being used within a geography that has different rules for where data must be placed. If the data has to be stored within a country, then that workload has to be managed differently than the same workload running in a country without this kind of governance requirement. With fewer restrictions, IT operations is free to move workloads to locations that have the bandwidth or capacity to meet the quality of service the business needs. In fact, the ability to change and move workloads based on business requirements is at the heart of operational issues in the cloud. 

## Connecting Workloads in the Cloud 

There are different kinds of workloads that you work with in the cloud, and while balancing workloads may not be a problem when you have a homogenous workload running in a particular cloud, like a public cloud for e-mail, things can get more complicated as you try to bridge different environments. That’s where portability and standards come into play. 

