Success in today’s data-driven business landscape means staying on top of a multitude of applications, resources, and services. Cloud computing gives enterprises the flexibility to adapt to the fluctuations of business and to operate more efficiently. But the overall effectiveness of the cloud for business depends on the underlying cloud deployment model. So what is a cloud deployment model? These paradigms dictate where enterprise apps, workloads, and data reside—whether in the public cloud, a privately owned and managed data center, or, commonly, a combination of both. Multiple factors come