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8 Use cases Let's talk about the different scenarios and use cases that are a good fit for hybrid. If used correctly, a hybrid design can offer great flexibility in terms of cost and features. Most use cases fall into three different scenarios. • Disaster Recovery (DR). This scenario probably fits most traditional on-prem deployments with a need for a business continuity (BC). Historically, DR involved building or renting a secondary site and using it to deploy EUC resources for failover. The public cloud offers a very attractive alternative to the legacy approach in the sense that you can reserve some cloud capacity and then burst it out to full capacity in the event of a disaster. In this approach, you pay to run your broker infrastructure VMs and a small pool of desktops constantly with storage capacity for the replicated user data and profiles. Then, should an event happen, you can quickly expand that pool of desktops to whatever size you need and point your users to it to begin working again. When all is done, you shrink back down to the steady-state size to reduce costs again. • Bursting. There are some use cases or projects that only need resources for a short time, and it might not make sense to keep space on-prem for them. In this case, you spin the resources up, typically in a public cloud, and destroy them when the need goes away. There are a range of scenarios that could effectively use bursting. Student labs are a common use case, because the needs are seasonal and scheduled around the student calendar. Students may also have GPU needs that you don't have on-prem. Special projects and temporary work are also common bursting use cases. • True Hybrid. This option likely captures most of the other use cases in the sense that they aren't temporary needs, which means you're regularly running some workloads on-prem and some in the cloud and decide where to deploy based on parameters that makes sense for your organization and design. For example, you may have a use case where you need GPUs and you don't have them on-prem; you may need to deploy in the APAC region rather than have local users traverse back to your North American sites; or you may simply be out of capacity in your on-prem environment.