Direct Connect Hybrid Cloud Solution Benefits & Potential Explored in a New CoreSite Report

The hybrid cloud approach is gaining steam, as the revenues of hyperscale cloud service providers like AWS and Microsoft continue to skyrocket. According to the report, AWS’s annualized run rate is $14.6 billion, and Azure’s is up 11% to $6.8 billion.A new ebook from CoreSite explores what the company sees as a few key reasons to directly connect hybrid cloud solutions.In the past, businesses have primarily connected to clouds using a virtual private network over the public internet, CoreSite points out.But the report contends this strategy often doesn’t allow for efficient workload portability and can introduce security, performance, cost and management challenges.What is a direct connect solution?The report defines it like this: “Rather than connecting to a cloud provider over the public Internet, direct cloud interconnect allows a company to establish private connectivity between a data center colocation environment and their cloud provider through a cross connect within the same environment.