Heading down the path of systems thinking for the hybrid cloud is the equivalent of taking the road less traveled in the storage industry. It is much more common to hear vendor noise about direct cloud integration features, such as a mechanism to move data on a storage array to public cloud services or run separate instances of the core vendor software inside public cloud environments. This is because of a narrow way of thinking that is centered on a storage array mentality. While there is value in those capabilities, practitioners need to consider a broader vision.
