A hybrid cloud combines the best of both worlds: the flexibility and scalability of the public cloud, with the control and proximity of on premises infrastructure through a private cloud. Instead of moving everything, you can keep sensitive or legacy workloads local while running modern, scalable applications in the public cloud. This reduces risk, avoids large rebuild projects and enables phased modernization. In addition, a hybrid cloud provides greater control over data, costs and compliance, while still allowing you to benefit from cloud innovation. You retain flexibility, workloads can still migrate over time or run temporarily in the cloud during peak demand. This allows you to modernize your IT environment strategically and cost effectively, without changing everything at once.