Organizations with more than 1, 000 employees are 46% more likely than smaller organizations to use hybrid clouds.

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Cloud users stand to benefit much more from cloud computing as the maturity of their usage increases, particularly with hybrid clouds.

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Public cloud, private clouds, and hybrid clouds: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud deployment models?

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Not clear from the Gartner survey is how many deployments will be with public cloud services, versus private or hybrid clouds under greater enterprise control.

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Hybrid public-private clouds are being built out, by the likes of Hewlett Packard and IBM, as well as VMWare.

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At Oracle, the strategy is to be offer solutions at all levels of the cloud stack, optimized to work together seamlessly in private clouds, public clouds, or hybrid combinations.

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He described this as a hybrid approach, whereby customers can transfer their applications back and forth between private clouds on-premise, and ones hosted by Oracle.

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