It is forecast that ‘hybrid cloud,’ which is a combination of public and private services, will record a remarkable growth in the New Year.

According to a report published recently by a market surveyor IDC, more than 65% of information technology (IT) organizations will adopt hybrid cloud technology by 2016.

Another surveyor Technology Business Research reported that, while private and public cloud markets are expected to grow by 35% and 25% respectively in 2015, hybrid cloud is forecast to grow by more than 50%, and thus to display the highest growth rate among all cloud services.

Hybrid cloud is one of cloud computing models (Cloud Computing: A computing system where a user takes out and uses a necessary amount of computing resources that are scattered on the Internet as of clouds in the sky and pays for the resources used). Some IT resources are serviced through internal private cloud and others are supplied by other service providers through public cloud. In plain language, this is a mixture of public cloud, which is open to the public, and private cloud that can be accessed by specific users only.

The reason companies prefer hybrid cloud that combines the two platforms is because it enables efficient corporate resource and cost management. Public service is cheap, but is associated with a risk of security and private service provides a high level of security, although it requires a large amount of implementation cost.

“Hybrid cloud provides an environment to conveniently integrate public and private cloud services, and thus ensures efficient system management and control,” said a Hitachi Data Systems source. “Chief information officers (CIO) are already moving key operations to private cloud system and applying public cloud to short-term internal operations or web applications.”