Building a Cloudbursting Capable Infrastructure
Reuven Cohen of the Elastic Vapor blog, in this article, puts forth the notion that infrastructure is required to enable cloudbursting and then asks an excellent question:
The general premise of cloudbursting is to allow the cloud to act as overflow resources in the event your own infrastructure becomes overloaded. It's an active fail-over model, in a way, that ensures applications are available and performing well even when capacity in the local data center is exhausted.
The problem with an architecture that supports cloudbursting is that you want to be able to simultaneously leverage both the local data center and the cloud.
This keeps the cost of using the cloud at a minimum and maximizes the return on investment in your own infrastructure.
Sounds like quite a trick. But I don't think it's nearly as complicated as it originally sounds, unless I'm missing something or the sleep deprivation caused by a sick child is affecting me more than I think.
