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For companies looking to put more of their workloads into the cloud, federated clouds might be the ticket.

There are times when putting a company's computing workload on a single cloud just isn't the best idea. This is where federated clouds come in, and a new flock of vendors is offering capabilities that would enable private-to-public cloud bursting, or federation between clouds, to meet data privacy mandates, offer high availability to customers, and provide geographic reach. For companies looking to put more of their workloads onto the cloud, this is one avenue worth taking a deeper look at.