"The benefit of a hybrid cloud is that it offers organizations access to resources that may not be available if they choose to use one of the other three dedicated cloud configurations. An example of this would be having access to specialized software available in the public cloud, which may not be part of a private cloud. A virtual cloud could also give organizations access to a portion of the resources hosted by the cloud provider which they could not afford in a dedicated private, public, or community cloud, such as high-end storage or computing hardware."
