[Term of the Day]: Cloudbursting

Term of the Day

“Cloudbursting”

Definition — What is Cloudbursting and how could it be beneficial to businesses?

Cloud bursting is all about the dynamic deployment of applications that normally run on a private cloud or data center and bursts into a public cloud to augment when the demand for computing capacity spikes. The internal computing resource is the “Private Cloud” and the external cloud is typically a “public cloud” for which the organization gets charged on a pay-per-use basis.

If an organization using a private cloud reaches 100% of its resource capacity, the overflow traffic is directed to a public cloud so there is no interruption of services.

The advantage of such a hybrid cloud deployment is that an organization only pays for extra compute resources when they are needed. There are many scenarios where businesses can benefit from cloud bursting. For example, cloud bursting is often cited as a viable option for retailers that experience peaks in demand during the holiday shopping season.