Data Software-as-a-Service: The Case for a Hybrid Deployment Architecture

The authors of the article, Lior Gavish and Kevin Stumpf, argue that traditional on-prem deployment models offer security and compliance benefits but require significant operational overhead from customers, while SaaS solutions provide ease of deployment and convenience but introduce anxiety for security and compliance teams. They propose a hybrid deployment architecture as a better solution, which marries the best of both worlds by providing a control plane managed by the vendor in their environment, and a data plane in the customer's environment, allowing customers to maintain full control over their sensitive data while still benefiting from the ease of deployment and convenience of SaaS. This approach enables faster onboarding, quicker time-to-value, and greater flexibility for customers, while also providing vendors with a secure and compliant solution that can be easily managed by the vendor.