Organizations that hesitate to commit to a total migration to the public cloud model use a hybrid of private-cloud-inspired and public cloud styles of computing. Cloud computing offers a value proposition that includes shifting responsibility and work to the cloud provider and leveraging the economics of cloud elasticity. Yet hybrid cloud breaks these propositions because the customer still retains responsibility for their part of the operation but can’t leverage all the cloud provider’s capabilities.
Read this blog from Gartner to see how distributed cloud helps eliminate these shortcomings and is the next generation of cloud computing.